Scary sh!t.
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Now where have i seen that sort of thing before..
Oh Yeah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM1JMrMpEC8&feature=player_embedded
Yeah, put the blonde haired blue eyed Aryan looking kid out front at first. Kind of ironic from the multi-culti crowd.
First off other than “Barrack Hussein Obama . . . murmur . . . blurb . . . equal pay . . . muffle . . . Hussein Obama” I couldn’t understand half the stuff those kids were blabbering about in nowhere near unison.
Second off, we’re America dam*it! If we’re going to have a massive government cult of personality let’s at least have halfway competent cadres of adoring psyscophants that can organize a dozen school kids to talk in unison and maybe stand in ranks for the love of goodness. And can we get something cooler that a dumb little chant? The Norks are wiping the floor with us. Or is Madeline Albright in charge of this creepy mess and is she intentionally making sure we don’t have the premier cult of personality in the world?
And uniforms! Ya gotta have uniforms! Mebbe blue shorts, white shirt, & red scarf.
AMDO: I love your comment. If we are gonna go to hell, at least go down better than anybody else. Go BIG or go home. This is America, dammit!
In a thousand years school kids will learn of the U.S. like we do the Romans. “They had a really great idea, kids, and they loved a good winner. But too bad their last BIG winner was a creepy cult-leader from Mars…”
They’re going for the hearts and minds… of our children! Have you seen this yet: http://www.storyofstuff.com/
You’re absolutely RIGHT! It is some scary sh!t!!!
The site wont load for me but I found it over on youtube.
Apparently my couch will give me a toxin to my brain, unless my pillow doesn’t kill me first . . . I’m now going to vote for Obama in 2012, this has finally made it all make sense.
I saw this a bit back – but I’ve yet to see any information on where or when this was.
I’m not crazy about the current administration, but I don’t want to make too much of stuff like this without some verified context. Maybe someone here has more info. on just who filmed this, where they were, etc.
Interestingly enough there is a church that meets in my kids school. They hold their services in the same spot they do school musicals, etc. It’s the biggest room on campus. I could just see somebody posting a couple minutes of that and railing about religion in schools. And I’d laugh at them for it. Just makes me cautious about assuming this is a school thing, in a public school.
One could say that it is irrelevant, and in some regards this is true – but almost here, and everywhere else I’ve seen it posted, there were comments about it being at a public school.
Here are the lyrics:
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must all lend a hand
To make this Country strong again
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we all must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red yellow black or white
All are equal in his sight
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes, Mmm, mmm, mmm
Barack Hussein Obama
Still don’t know where it was shot.
B. Bernice Young Elementary School,
203 Neck Road, Burlington, NJ 08016
Principal: Dr. Denise King
Phone: (609) 386-3520
From the school website and Michelle Malkin.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/24/mmm-mmm-mmm-new-details-about-the-dear-leader-song-video/
Missing the little goofy red white and blue setting sun armbands….
Heh. Don’t give them any ideas Dust!
The last part sounds like it is sung to the Battle Hymn of the Republic…am I hearing things?
If I am not (ok, even if I am), what are the lyrics to the last part?
Every time I hear something like this I want to take it in context but, for the life of me, I have NEVER experienced this kind of thing.
It appears to be the first kid’s song but the teacher is more than willing to promote it. Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior towards a President?
Not in the United States.
All that is missing are the white shirts and red ties. This happens in Cuba and North Korea. SHOULD NOT happen here. Somebody better get their ass fired for this crap. What blows my mind is how could someone think this is appropriate. And the parents are not there pulling their kids out of school and demanding heads on a pike.
Unfreaking belieavable.
*I* wanna know where the large colored square flash cards were. They’d never make the cut to get into “BLOCK *I*” at the Univ. of Illinois. ProwlerAMDO is right, the Norks and the PRC ARE wiping the floor with us. Where’s our GD pride? Those kids need practice! Some half-a** cult of personality WE’VE got! Pikers…
Did the administration ask them to do this? I doubt it (unless it was part of an NEA grant!).
Still, lefties will start defending this. You know, the same lefties that get the vapors if we tell kids to say “I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America…”
This is what the HuffPo says…from Volokh: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/school-children-singing-t_b_300126.html
What do I believe?
Like the kids sing, I also believe we “must all lend a hand to make this country strong again.” Don’t you? That “we must be fair?”
That “we all must take a stand to make sure everyone [in this Land of the Free and the Brave] gets a chance.” [Isn't that the American Dream?]
I believe in our democratic Republic, and I believe under our Constitution, “all are equal,” be they “red yellow black or white.” Don’t you?
I also consider my beliefs are very appropriate for children, too.
But what I do find scary are the here and elsewhere raging and irrational reactions to this isolated and minimal event.
For those who know their history, it has absolutely no relationship to Germany in the ’30s. It is just stuff kids sing in school – and apparently in only one of many thousands of schools – not unlike the Pledge of Allegiance, God Bless America, and other songs from the serious to the whimsical. Kids naturally love to perform and the material is reasonable and positive.
This apparent rage seems to emanate not by what the kids sing, but mostly by many people’s animosity to the current President. Change “Barrack Hussein Obama” to “George W. Bush” while keeping the same lyrics, and nothing would be said here…. or maybe it would be praised!
So the message is disregarded once again as an excuse to rail against the messenger and disliked President. Any excuse in a storm, I presume.
I’m curious, do you really believe the stuff you toss up here, or are you just being contrarian?
fliterman- I don’t think anyone disagrees with the message as to what we would like for this country. Of course we all want equal pay for equal work. Of course we want everyone treated equally. And some of this starts at home… attitudes at home.
But this song isn’t really about that. This song is about the President of the United States. This is a group of children that have been coached in singing what a great man HE is, not what a great country THIS is.
If a group of children had similarly been coached to sing the same song about Bush, Good Lord have mercy, the media, liberals AND independents (of which I am one) would have had an absolute conniption fit.
However, as someone stated, the setting would be nice to know. If it was a Democrat dealio and everyone brought their kids and they sang, that is far different than their being in a school setting with a teacher having them sing this.
Setting is imperative. I suspect it is a school however, and stand with others that it is repulsive.
Bou – +1.
So the message is disregarded once again as an excuse to rail against the messenger and disliked President. Any excuse in a storm, I presume.
I say loyal opposition..or doesn’t that apply anymore..
Oh, “loyal opposition” is always quite appropriate… as long as it is based upon facts, deduction, and reason. Quite different than the unfounded and sometimes raging “emotional opposition” we too often see.
Of course when any opposition – loyal or not; well-founded or not – jumps immediately into Reductio ad Hitlerum, (aka, Godwin’s Law) said opposition quickly loses any and all credibility, and renders the opponent and his points – valid or not – irrelevant, if not repugnant!
Now flit
If this video had shown the same group of kids singing/chanting/memorizing phrases that were hateful towards BHO or worse advocating the killing of one particular individual, would you still have the same calm, reasoned, un-emotional attitude?
The point is that IF this is a public school funded with public dollars there is a strict curriculum to be followed, even for after school events. No, we didn’t see this for GWB, but we didn’t see it for the bill and hilly show either. This reeks of middle aged under-achieving minority women teachers with a power grab complex.
Gracious God in Heaven above us, fliterman! You tell us that we would be “quite approprite” if we could only use some “facts, deduction and reason”. Then you go about your way saying that if there were only some opposition that didn’t become all emotional, you question their loyalty and their credibility and then tell this opposition it’s “repugnant”!
Now that should bring some positive responses, don’t you think?
Well, unless you can’t believe your eyes and ears, the fact seems to be self-evident: kids are singing a song glorifying many good ideals and in particular, Barack Obama. Not the “president”, not the “country”, but Barack Obama, by name.
Deduction tells us that someone wrote those words, perhaps even for this specific purpose, but they did write them… and set them to a tune. Deductive reason would tell us that they were thinking of high ideals and of how to praise the man, Barack Obama. What would the reason for this activity be?
When people don’t appreciate the praise of Barack Obama as opposed to our nation, you then call them “repugnant”. How ’bout that?! You know, my daddy always taught me that the “skunk smells his own hole first!”
Sorry dwas, after eight years of “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism,” Chiimpy McSmirkBusHitler, and Dems sabotaging the war effort for political game, do NOT try peddling that loyal opposition crap to me.
Don’t like a taste of your own medicine? Fornicate you sideways with a red-hot pineapple.
Butch/
You’re slipping–you forgot the $ part of BU$H
Umm, I think you just did a little blue-on-blue there. dwas was quoting flit, not agreeing with him. Perhaps a little too quick on the draw there, BUTCH.
Ready. Fire. Aim.
Flat out frightening!
Flit see this through the “my guy good, your guy bad” prism, which leads to tortured reasoning like the GWB comparison. That isn’t the issue — the issue is the personality cult that surrounds this guy, unique in my short stay on this planet. I can barely remember Kennedy, so maybe it existed then. Maybe Reagan, but more in retrospect — for what he accomplished, not for what he was.
What I’m having trouble with, is that I can’t imagine any adult, being so gobsmacked with a human being that they would manipulate children like this. Oh, yea. I forgot. This has happened before.. Won’t be the last, so hang on rational humans. It will only get worse as the One’s defenders, blind loyalists to the end, are increasingly isolated, and see the whole world as wrong.
On the cult of personality aspect…
I think I’ve mentioned here before that when Obama addressed Congress last week, a fellow USO volunteer swooned like a teenage girl when he appeared on the TV screen. Honest truth! She made this happy sign and said with girlish glee and stars in her eyes, “Oh!!! He’s so handsome… and he’s so nice!! I hope he does well. Don’t you?” She is a 65-year-old grandmother, a white woman living in one of the very upperclass coastal towns of Southern California. I nearly fell out of my chair in shock.
Lioness,
Sad to say, but Coastal California is leading the rest of the state over the edge. Used to be fairly conservative in its views, but no more.
Apparently, this pooch has more common sense than our entire public education system.
That is funny as hell, XAB.
Bwhahahaha!
LOL (though Flit will not find it funny).
Loved that! Didn’t know I could blow coffee thru my nose. Sent it to the idiot I terminated yesterday with the “CHANGE” bumper sticker.
LOL, G-Man. I’m with you!
Blue Four here, but outstanding! ROTFLMAOPIMP!!!!!
Flit, this needs to be said: Blow it out your A$$.
This programming of children is identical to what happened in the Third Reich and that is cause for alarm for most of us here. The video and song are of some American children expounding the greatness of the “Leader” himself reminescent of the Hitler Jugend. Any obfuscation or denial of this fact on your part is disingenuous bull$#it.
I need another coffee this morning. My BS tolerance threshold is low…..with apologies to our host….
Dust … I’m in complete agreement with you about Obama’s UN speech, although I probably wouldn’t have said it quite as elegantly as you just did. [Although we know all the words, we old ladies are constrained by society from using them]. Charles Krauthammer said much the same thing on Foxnews last evening, with Stephen Hayes agreeing wholeheartedly. It was “embarrassing to the country” they agreed, although Juan Williams got that glassy-eyed look of the true believer and insisted it was a great speech. He would.
Obama managed to withdraw all support from Israel, leaving them twisting in the wind in traditional James Carville pit bull fashion, and implied that McChrystal wasn’t going to get his necessary troop increase for Afganistan, to protect our brave men and women already there.
I now know why Obama has spent “millions of dollars” to keep his high school, college, and advanced degree grades secret.
Marianne
Wow Flit. Just wow.
Word o’ the day is “sophistry.”
“He said we must all lend a hand
To make this Country strong again”
I guess I don’t see eye to eye with the President on this. Is our country not strong today? By what definition? By whose definition? Will income redistribution, massive gov’t debt, and obsequious apology speeches to the UN make us stronger? Or will more of a focus on gov’t helping those that first help themselves make us stronger? At the end of the day, is it really Barack Hussein Obama that gets to decide that? Are we truly wanting to indoctrinate the next generations to believe that the President is the one to decide that? He’s only going to be president for another 7 1/2 years (at most) right? What if the next president doesn’t see things quite the same way? Will we be quite as ready as Flit to ignore this kind of thing?
“He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay”
Does it? Should it? Who gets to decide that 12 years spent becoming a physician shouldn’t be compensated more highly than a high school drop out driving a bulldozer? Who gets to tell a high school graduate pulling in hundred of millions as a Hollywood actor that the doctor should be paid equally? As before, if you answer that for the current Resident, you’d better be willing to accept the same answer when he steps aside in less than a decade.
“He said we all must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance”
Who specifically is not being given a chance? A guarantee of equal opportunity does not and SHOULD NOT be mischaracterized as a guarantee of equal results. When you go down that path, you are headed towards affirmative action (or reverse discrimination, if you will) which ultimately leads to things like, well, Barack Hussein Obama.
“He said red yellow black or white
All are equal in his sight”
Really? I suppose that might be the case, he does tend to say a lot of things that are belied by his own words and actions. Discrimination can and does come in other forms that Barack Hussein Obama may be unaware of. Wouldn’t you agree that it is every bit as wrong to discriminate against those who may cling to beliefs and constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms that you may or may not believe it yourself? Yes, I’m talking to you, Barack Hussein Obama, ummm ummm ummm.
daveg,
Thanks for opening the door and giving me the opportunity to thank the Army for giving me the chance to use my college degree to learn to operate (one doesn’t ‘drive’ them) a bulldozer. For those who post here whose experience is limited to sailing the seas in mighty warships or soaring the skies in swift aircraft, you can not begin to imagine the joys of traversing the land at a heady mile and a half an hour. It gives one the time to observe and enjoy at a human pace. Probably kind of like the pioneers.
Didn’t take me twelve years to learn, but one gets better with practice. Need an airfield? You’ll need a dozer. Need a freeway? You’ll need a dozer. Need a place to safely store fuel or ammo? Same thing, you’ll likely need a dozer. They are very useful pieces of equipment.
Spend time on one in sub-zero temperatures? How about 100+ temperatures and humidity? Then you’ll wish you were a surgeon in some nice hospital, or a community agitator, or [gagging sound] even a senator. Heck, you might even wish you were a sailor. Not me; all that salt water that’s too deep to stand up in makes me queasy. And I’m certain that all those high-G turns and loops and all that aviators/pilots tolerate would make my brain explode. And all those dials to watch and switches to keep track of are way beyond my ability to comprehend.
Spent too many years planning and leading but never forgot my roots and took every chance I could to show that the old guy could move dirt with the best of them — and some of those kids are amazing. In a down to earth kind of way.
Pardon the diversion.
This stirred a long forgotten memory of my elementary years in the early sixties (first or second grade) when we heard a song about JFK played over and over again in our school (probably during music period). I can’t remember the tune or even much of the words but it was something about how great JFK was. I don’t think we ever sung it but I know we listened on the record player. This was in ‘62 or early ‘63 school year.
Of course we sung the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, “God Bless America” and even “Dixie” as nobody had figured out that our little minds were being ruined by such patriotic nonsense. But somebody had a thing for JFK (besides Marilyn Monroe it turns out)and we heard over and over just how great he was….
OldT6/
Well I’m old enough that I CAN remember the JFK era quite well–and the faint outlines of the cult of personality thing were definitely there, but nothing like this. Same fawning media coverage, etc., but no real organized attempt by the JFK people themselves to drive the issue–which is, I feel, the BIG difference today. The Obama people work at it 24/7. (Amusing note: The fashion/news mags played up his wife Jackie as much or more, even than they do Michelle today. Overheard my Mother say one day: “If I see another magazine cover of Jackie in that damn pink pill-box hat I’m gonna THROW UP!” LOL!)
The fashion/news mags played up his wife Jackie as much or more…
More… MUCH more. We’re within ten months of each other in age, VX, and I remember Camelot all too damned well. But I don’t remember any grade-school indoctrination efforts… probably because we were awash in images of bright smiling Komsomol faces during that time.
I remember our school closing classes early one day, so we students could all go outside and enjoy the loud and entertaining political campaign that had specifically come to our small school.
Oh there were lots of banners and signs, loud music and people speaking of wondrous things to come. To our amazement (in this Midwest town of 4,000) they even had a live elephant draped in red, white, and blue!
The best thing about this spectacle though, was we all learned a new and catchy little song. I have long forgotten most of the words, but the phrase, “I like Ike” still rings in my head.
I went home excitedly telling my staunch Democratic father of the event, and eagerly asked if he were going to vote for Eisenhower. Totally without the resulting outrage of a Malkin or others of today, he calmly said, “No, Eisenhower is a fine man, but I am voting for Stevenson.”
As one can observe today, although I may have mistakenly voted Republican a couple times in my life, I was neither indoctrinated nor brainwashed by that ‘flagrant political event’ at my school…. Even though I really liked the elephant.
flit/
I’m sure such things happened, but in that era they were ALWAYS the result of the efforts of local boosters, unlike today under Obama. There was NO SUSTAINED, NATIONALLY COORDINATED campaign to press the “advantages” of “Eisenhowerism.” Now granted, the vid hereunder discussion is a product of spontaneous, local “boosterism” also. But when combined with such things as the national campaign proposed to be run thu the NE for the Arts, etc., it becomes slightly alarming.
(BTW, sometimes the tide is so strong that it truly is spontaneous. During the 52 Campaign all we kids in University Housing–sons and daughters of faculty members all–a faculty even then overwhelmingly liberal–and in the State of Illinois, no less, where Stevenson had been a widely admired and truly popular governor, sang this little ditty as we played in our sand-boxes: “Eisenhower in the White House, waiting to be elected; Stevenson in the trash-can, waiting to be collected.” LOL.)
Well, MM doesn’t hold a candle to true hysterical “outrage”:
FF to 5:14 and 7:17
This guy’s histrionics make Glenn Beck look like an Quaker. But, if no one watches your show, I guess you don’t exist.
It is impossible to express here the anger I feel at this brainwashing attempt.
Shades of the “Dear Leader” of the Norks! Let me share a little story of where this can lead, told to me by a South Korean.
South Korea and North Korea had a little get together a few years ago, in which sport competition was tried in an attempt to make for a friendlier attitude by the Norks. One day during the event there was a parade, and banners with the faces of each leader, North and South, were hanging from street lamps.
Unfortunately, it started raining.
One busload of Norks stopped and, with tears streaming down their faces, removed the banners with the face of the Dear Leader. They thought it an insult that a banner displaying his face would be rained upon.
Yes, Mmmm, mmm, mmm …
Charisse Carney-Nunes is the architect of this monstrosity, and very likely is the person leading the
young pioneersschool kids. Now, I am sure there were some Bush idolaters who wrote similar words (like Flit is certain there were), but dam* if I can remember anything like this in the past eight yearsOn the surface, we can all agree that the goals and desires are good goals. But to think that you are only required to be responsible because a particular person is President, is investing way too many expectations in a leader of a democracy. That is borderline insane — you mean, if McCain were president, you wouldn’t have to take responsiblity for being fat? Man, why didn’t McCain get THAT on a bumper sticker? He’d of locked down the fat slob vote – absolutions for all.
I don’t think Ms Carney-Nunes really wants a democracy. I think she’d like to have something much different. It isn’t too far a trip from thinking “I should do these things since Barack is president”, to thinking “YOU should do these things because Barack is president.” Don’t laugh. They are already thinking it.
SCOTT/
And only a few steps down the road from sodas will be rules on what colors it is permissible to paint ones’ childrens bedrooms as “certain” colors will be found to promote excessive aggressiveness. To use your term, “don’t laugh,” as such things were a recorded basis of daily communal discussion on many an Israeli Kibbutz in the 50s–about as close to pure “Communism” as the West is ever likely to see–until Obama, that is.
Looks like this was done at a school in New Jersey last June. At least it was filmed then. It was released on September 9.
Even better – some of the lyrics come from a religious song titled Jesus Loves the Little Children. That does not give me the warm & fuzzies about this kind of thing.
Coming in to fulfill my usual role of thread killing…
My son, in 3rd grade, has been subjected to Obama around the clock in school. Just a couple weeks ago were talking about some prominent and decent figure (escaping me at the moment) and my son asked if he was as tall as Obama, Obama is 7 feet tall you know (no – I’m not making this up), that Obama is a great person, Obama is the best, etc. Now my being firmly implanted in the extreme middle (OK slightly conservative but my democratic party moved far too left for me a while ago) history may one day judge him as that great man but from where I sit today that chance ranges from zero to highly unlikely.
I try to explain to my son that it is the country that is great, the people that work hard and have sacrificed so many things including their lives to bring us to where we are today. All the people trying to move the ball of good into the next set of downs. But instead he hears from a card carrying NEA supporters that Obama is the greatest man on earth.
I really do think schools should be apolitical. Never happen. Oddly enough, I went through a DODDS High School in Germany in the 80s. The height of Reaganism and did not hear one lick of social programming. President’s picture was on the wall and a couple feet below you found a smaller picture of the principal and VPs. Maybe that is how it should always be. No fanfare, no fuss. Sorry, digressing.
Anyway, he was confused that I could not have possibly voted for Obama during the election. How could someone he respects like me not possibly vote for O?
I do see this hero worship going on and it concerns me deeply. I see this hypocrisy of treating people, this relegating of what made America great to the wayside of has been. It is cult like. I see it day in and day out at many, many of my clients. This sneering like jealous teenage girls that have now wrestled control of decorating the gym for the dance. Juvenile, spoiled brat-like.
One thing is for certain, there better be a significant improvement of the leadership of the Republican Party to provide a viable alternative to the generally moderate fat bubble of the voting public or this is going to be ugly for some time to come. As a country, we’ve been putting the cart before the horse for too long, maybe to easily forgetting what got us here and what we have.
We have a Republic. I fear we won’t keep it.
In light of this little school ‘episode’, I would refer to an old shorty by James Clavelle: “The Childrens Story”;
My “HTML-Fu” is weak, so if there is not a link, it should be http://home.comcast.net/~llefler/clavell.htm
ChrisP
It would seem that the far left now has a god. They are so happy that they want to break out in songs of adoration to their new god. They think it is wonderful that little children sing songs of praise to their new god. They strongly believe that anyone who objects is a racist and a right wing nut who should be shouted down and made to shut up. These are people who are in their first flush of enthusiasm regarding their first quasi-religious experience. They would joyfully line up to kiss Barrack Obama’s testicles, and they don’t understand why everyone else does not feel the same way.
In other words, they are nuts. There are many more of us than there are of them. If we all just take the time to vote in 2010, we can put the brakes on this insanity.
John, Captain Lex, sirs, on that note: HuffPo people are on to your game:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-impeachment-of-presid_b_297330.html