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Another song by school children praising Obama

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Video: Another song by school children praising Obama

B. Bernice Young School in Burlington Township, New Jersey was under scrutiny this week after a video surfaced of their grade school children singing a worshipful like song to President Obama. Another video appears to be making the rounds on the web today of another group of children singing a song to President Obama that has an idolizing theme. Below the clip is the information from the creator of the video describing the origins of the song accompanied with the song's lyrics.

Video: Another song by school children praising Obama - Water Cooler - Washington Times



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ettl3zfLWus&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Kids Obama Song[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKIzVZtbFUA&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - liberal indoctrination camp[/ame]



Can we be worried yet? Evidently this is not an isolated incident. One wonders that if they've been caught 3 times attempting to indoctrinate children into the cult Obama one wonders how many other times it has happened.
 
"idolizing" theme? I could argue "Mary has a little lamb" has an "idolizing" theme.
 
"idolizing" theme? I could argue "Mary has a little lamb" has an "idolizing" theme.

How is singing Mary Had a Little lamb in any possible way comparable to songs idolizing a sitting President? Does Mary Had a Little lamb suggest following the political ideology of Mary? Did Mary run for the Presidency? Does Mary Had a Little lamb have lyrics which were part of Mary's campaign slogans? Because if not epic fail.
 
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This is getting rediculous... Imagine if there were songs praising president Bush like this?

Politics needs to be kept out of the public school system.

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Leftist do like to get their hands on our children.


 
To point out what I already said in the other thread, we don't actually have a federal level legal process for preventing this sort of thing.

Speaking of the other thread, wouldn't this have fit in there?

This is getting rediculous... Imagine if there were songs praising president Bush like this?

At the very worst, it would be something like how you are acting.

Leftist do like to get their hands on our children.

You can't be both a communist and a Nazi. Nazism is a right wing political movement.
 
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To point out what I already said in the other thread, we don't actually have a federal level legal process for this sort of thing.

We don't need one, I don't think anyone should go to jail but I would like to see some people get fired.


You can't be both a communist and a Nazi. Nazism is a right wing political movement.

Debatable, linear political spectrum's are not very useful. Both Nazism and Communism are statist in nature and have far more in common with one another than either one has in common with liberal democracy.
 
I think the paranoia about this is stirred up by the right. Where was the fear when the churches were organized to support Bush?

These are public schools, and the curricula is locally approved by the school board. Social studies, current events and civics are taught in elementary schools.

Songs work to help children remember details. There are math songs, and ABC songs and all manner of songs in elementary school.
 
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"You can't be both a communist and a Nazi. Nazism is a right wing political movement." - Morality Games

No.

Nazi (National Socialist German Workers Party) is a socialist, therefore, left-wing political movement.

Communism is also a left-wing ideology.

Both are responsible for the oppression and murder of millions and millions of their own people.

These are both wonderful examples of how left-wing ideology is oppressive, totalitarian and savage.
 
Where was the fear when the churches were organized to support Bush?

Churches are private organizations funded by private donations with a private ideological purpose. These are public schools, funded by public tax dollars, with a specific goal that is apolitical.

You don't see the difference?
 
We don't need one, I don't think anyone should go to jail but I would like to see some people get fired.




Debatable, linear political spectrum's are not very useful. Both Nazism and Communism are statist in nature and have far more in common with one another than either one has in common with liberal democracy.

That's ridiculous. This is not Nazism, Communism or anything else like it.
 
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Churches are entirely private, and no one's legally forced to go to one.
 
"You can't be both a communist and a Nazi. Nazism is a right wing political movement." - Morality Games

No.

Nazi (National Socialist German Workers Party) is a socialist, therefore, left-wing political movement.

Communism is also a left-wing ideology.

Both are responsible for the oppression and murder of millions and millions of their own people.

These are both wonderful examples of how left-wing ideology is oppressive, totalitarian and savage.

It is exactly this type of mentality that makes people raise their eyebrows at Conservative/right-wing politics. Not meaning to derail the thread, but what I'm about to say is closely linked to this particular issue, IMHO.

All this talk in conservative talk radio circles about instigating violence....they wonder where it's coming from. Well, this is it, folk! Only, I wouldn't call it "instigating violence" as much as I'd say conservative talk radio "insights fear" through a continuous stream of "word associate" or word-play.

Example: You say socialism, communism, and continue to espouse Marxism, Nazism, Third Rheicht, Hitler Youth and it all equates to brining about fear and mistrust in government. Add to that things like "government bailouts" and "government takeover of health care" or "dealth panels" and all you've done is stir up the anxiety of the people, primarily those who where already opposed to this President. And, of course, that only brings more doubters into the frey. Add to that all the mis-information and :spin: from every direction on nearly every issue...

No, talk radio hasn't instigated or advocated violence by any means. But they sure have planted the seeds in the minds of people to further heighten their anxiety levels. What better way to continue this "insighting of fear" than to turn attention towards our children, i.e., "these songs are indoctrinating our youth to the President's ideology". This was the exact phrasology I heard on a local conservative talk radio show just this morning during my drive-time to work. My reply to this remains the same: It's not that deep, folks. It was just a school project presented in honor of this nation's first African American president. Nothing more, nothing less.

As far as I've been able to determine, none of the songs were sponsored nor approved in advance by the White House. All were part of an historic event in this nation's history. And IMO, none of the stories involving these songs would ever have gained any level of national attention had it not been for the President's first day of school speech. If that event had never caused an un-necessary stir in Conservative circles, these songs likely would never have become anything more than the school projects for Black History month they were intended to be. Nothing more, nothing less.
 
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And school boards determine local school policy and approve curricula.

I doubt that these songs were run past the school boards in question. When it comes to activities like this, most of it is left to teacher discretion. In this instance, it appears that a few teachers have dropped the ball.

It happens. People sometimes let their political views into the classroom. I consider it inappropriate, depending upon how far it goes.

:shrug:

I don't believe it is a vast Obama conspiracy, but it is over the line of appropriateness, and frankly, indefensible.
 
Watch this:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdt_f0hwUg"]YouTube - Jesus Camp Extract Praise Bush[/ame]

and tell me which is more scary.
 
Nazism is a right wing political movement.

WRONG!!


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE"]YouTube - The American Form of Government[/ame]
 
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Watch this:

and tell me which is more scary.

This happened in a church, with the consent of the parents involved, and was not funded by public tax dollars.

I find that using my tax dollars to indoctrinate people, politically, is more offensive.

Though, I will say that sections of this documentary took place in a church that is located in my hometown. So, I do understand your concerns. I've spent my entire life immersed in and surrounded by fundamentalism of one form or another.
 
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plus it was during black history month
 
plus it was during black history month

A silly month, to be sure. I mean, when are we going to get a Scottish history month? I think I'm just as entitled to the recognition as blacks are.
 
"You can't be both a communist and a Nazi. Nazism is a right wing political movement." - Morality Games

No.

Nazi (National Socialist German Workers Party) is a socialist, therefore, left-wing political movement.

Communism is also a left-wing ideology.

Both are responsible for the oppression and murder of millions and millions of their own people.

These are both wonderful examples of how left-wing ideology is oppressive, totalitarian and savage.

Your own sentiments are the incorrect ones, and are based on the unchallenged acceptance of self-descriptions from authoritarian political regimes, which would be laughably naive in the case of the Bolsheviks' claims to have established a German "Democratic Republic" in East Germany or a federal republic in the USSR. It should be no less ridiculous in the case of the acceptance of authoritarian political regimes' claims to be "socialist," which is a ploy used for populist reasons.

Churches are private organizations funded by private donations with a private ideological purpose. These are public schools, funded by public tax dollars, with a specific goal that is apolitical.

You don't see the difference?

That is the difference, and one that saves youth from excessive social or political indoctrination in schools. There is no such protection for them in church, which is certainly objectionable in the case of competent people who happen to be under 18 and are compelled to accept religious indoctrination anyway and probably objectionable even for younger incompetent people, as brainwashing experiences in early childhood will incline people to accept it a later time, rendering the process a self-justifying mechanism of sorts. The philosopher David Archard comments on the general subject of "paternalism which changes others so that they approve it. It thus brings about its own subsequent vindicatory consent. We could brainwash someone to think that the brainwashing was a good thing."

Churches are entirely private, and no one's legally forced to go to one.

No one that you'd acknowledge, but minors don't have the right to freely exercise their own religion, and can be legally compelled to attend religious services by their parents/guardians even in the case. This corrupts a relationship intended to have a basis in the protection of the immature into unjust authoritarianism applied to individuals who should have the right to worship or not worship as they choose. The nature of this hierarchical relationship can render it worse than state compulsion in some cases.

A silly month, to be sure. I mean, when are we going to get a Scottish history month? I think I'm just as entitled to the recognition as blacks are.

I wasn't aware that Scots constituted a race. Learn something new every day, I guess. :)
 
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