Quote: Exactly. One school-teacher in one school district leading children in a fairly non-political song about the president does not constitute a national controversy. Let the PTA handle this. Jesus, the right-wing have lost their minds...

Notice: my inital thread was just a link, AS always. Just the info.

I already agreed with this statement. And again, this has nothing to do with wings and Obama. The reason this thing got all heated is because ANY news relating to Obama, is racist, or right-wing nut.

Quote: Original post by dpadam450
Notice: my inital thread was just a link, AS always. Just the info.

Isn't that against forum rules?

Quote: Original post by dpadam450

Quote: Exactly. One school-teacher in one school district leading children in a fairly non-political song about the president does not constitute a national controversy. Let the PTA handle this. Jesus, the right-wing have lost their minds...

Notice: my inital thread was just a link, AS always. Just the info.

Are you going to recant the title you gave this thread too? The info you provided was thin, nothing about how old those children were, what grade they were in, what the lyrics to the song were. I had to use the info in the corner - where the name of the school is identified - to find more information. I found it at Fox News and Michelle Malkin's blog. Go figure eh?

Quote: Original post by dpadam450
I already agreed with this statement. And again, this has nothing to do with wings and Obama. The reason this thing got all heated is because ANY news relating to Obama, is racist, or right-wing nut.

There is plenty of news about Obama that isn't racist or wing nut. You could have flagged the fundraiser who got popped this week. You could have posted about Obama's reversal of Bush's plans to put a missile shield into Poland and the Czech Republic. You could have posted about Obama's pending talks with Iran, North Korea and Myanmar. Instead you posted a link to the latest "Obama messiah" hysteria.

// edit: On Thursday Michael Savage played the audio from this clip and used it to go off on a rant about Hitler Youth, Stalin Youth and how Obama is the messiah of leftists. I was unfortunate enough to hear it. That's where I got the "Obama messiah hysteria" remark from.


[Edited by - LessBread on September 26, 2009 5:04:16 AM]

Quote: Original post by Toolmaker
Go watch 'Jesus Camp' and then complain about indoctrination, brain washing and forcing shit onto children. THAT is sick shit.

Ninja'd! Don't forget the children praying for Bush's success.

This is just selectivism, and that wasn't even a great example. Children in Christian schools and home school programs are taught right wing values everyday.

Quote: Original post by dpadam450
You all know damn well if "Barack Hussein Obama" was replaced with "Jesus Christ", then everyone would shit all over it. Discredit the teacher. Infringing upon religious right. WHICH IT WOULD BE! ...but why are the words so different if you have Obama in there, or Jesus Christ???

Obama is a real person and the President. Jesus is a story made up in the bible with absolutely no evidence to support his existence. There is a huge difference...

Quote: Original post by LessBread
I only remember one song from first grade and that's "Rocky Raccoon" by the Beatles.

And now Rocky Raccoon
He fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon's bible
Gideon checked out
and he left it no doubt
to help with good Rocky's revival

Christian indoctrination!

Apparently a similar incident happened with George W. Bush for... well read for yourself here. Determine the similarities and differences between the two events yourselves.

edit: I missed that this was linked already. My bad.

[Edited by - nobodynews on September 26, 2009 5:24:51 PM]

Quote: Original post by Oberon_Command
I'll say this: I don't think we would ever see this happening in Canada.

To be fair, we haven't had a black PM yet. :)

Quote: Original post by dpadam450

"> LINK

Politics aside, this is just wrong.

Yes, so many of the comments of that video are just wrong.

Randall Munroe of xkcd put it best:

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Quote: Original post by LessBread
I only remember one song from first grade and that's "Rocky Raccoon" by the Beatles.

And now Rocky Raccoon
He fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon's bible
Gideon checked out
and he left it no doubt
to help with good Rocky's revival

Christian indoctrination!

We're more popular than Jesus now. [grin]


We didn't sing the song in the class room or anything like that. I was a very unruly kindergartner and got sent away for a year to be the guinea pig for something called "the guidance clinic", which was a school program to help unruly children adjust to school (this was 1972). Instead of having one teacher and having to share her with 30 other kids, I got three teachers all to myself. Actually, it was one teacher and two assistants. One of the assistants played guitar and he use to play Rocky Raccoon and I picked up the song and made it my own the way that 5 year old children do. Years later when I was in high school and was playing my newly purchased copy of the White Album (around 1984), my Dad overheard Rocky Raccoon coming through the speakers and put two and two together to realize that the song I sang as a child, that he thought was a children's song, was really a Beatles song. My dad was a few years too old to be swept up by Beatlemania, so he was only familiar with their songs that made it onto top 40 radio - and Rocky Raccoon wasn't one of them. Anyway, this was all good for a laugh in 1984, but enough of that.

You know, we really ought to thank the hysterics for their work destroying their movement. The more they cry wolf, the more the public recognizes their foolishness.