A teacher in a Dallas suburban district just phoned the colleague of mine who works in the office next to mine. She's a personal friend of his. He says she phoned from the break room at school, close to tears. She told him, "This is getting out of control. Parents are calling up the school and yelling at the principals. The principals are freaking out."
All because the president of the United States is going to give an address on education to students.
Meanwhile, it took no time for a commenter on the Dallas Morning News editorial board blog to compare the president to Charles Manson. Which was followed by this:
This all sounds very familiar. Oh yea, Hitler was well liked by children. He could speak to them very well, and won them over. Hitler organized the youth as an army, complete with regiments. A boy could rise from the simple rank of just a boy to lead a squad, platoon, company, even a battalion. A girl could rise to become a leader. Even lead them into community organizers. Don't drink any more of Obama's Kool Aid. Wake up people.
Obama would be smart to release the text of his planned address to defuse the crazybomb on the Right. I doubt that will be enough. A Texas Republican friend this morning told me two things: a) not all conservatives agree with these people; and b) that said, this is the last straw for him, that he doesn't want to be associated in any way with the GOP, which in his view has lost its collective mind.
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Stari
Since my comment was intended to follow directly on the preceding comment about the 1988 election, I was referring the periods before 1988.
Check it out. The speech is up on the White House webpage, and it's pretty innocuous, all-American stuff.
Jon W
That makes it all the more insidious, don't it?
Just finished reading President Obama's speech on CNN. He has a gift of expressing what he wants to say about anything, of course, but this speech is great. Every student from the sixth grade on through H.S. should be given this speech to read in one of their classes at the beginning of every school year. It would ground them in purpose to learn, and not to only play their way through school.
I know one guy who has now left the GOP about 20 times. I think the first time was when George Bush Sr raised taxes. The latest time was when a neighbor told a joke about lynching gays. He wasn't sure the guy was Republican, but he did have a Nascar sticker and Jesus fish on his ride, so close enough. The guy was white also, so the gay-prejudice wasn't race-based--must have been political.
So the next time this guy leaves the GOP, they can expect a net-loss of exactly zero.
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