I’m reminded of the words of Emilio Barzini, a fictional character from The Godfather, who said “Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all… we are not Communists.”
What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?
The Dear Leader is scheduled to make a “special address” directly to America’s children on September 8th. Drudge Reportposted a document today that suggests “activities” for teachers before/during/after the Dear Leader’s address.
As noted by Michelle Malkin, the “activities” have a rather “activist” slant to them…
During the Speech:
As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
After the Speech:
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
“Why have my Mommy and Daddy started talking about home-schooling me this year?”
St. Louis Radio Talker Dana Loesch has suggested September 8th might be a good day to keep your kids home…
“Take a day of vacation. Go to the zoo. Anything that would save your offspring from what I will bluntly say is just the quasi-fellating the executive branch. That cackling over a bubbling cauldron you hear is the NEA rejoicing.”
“There is this mindset that those in Washington are the “elite,” that we should mind our Ps and Qs and blindly follow their directives. That’s not the manner of governance upon which this country was founded – it is quite the opposite; even the hobbyist Constitutional aficionado appreciates this.”
Of course, all of this reminds me of a really funny/creepy video put out last year by Iowahawk.
If you’ve never seen this, you’re missing out. Watch.
Because as we all know, he’d be lost without it. Politico wrote a piece today about the president’s reliance on the thing that provides him with his so-called excellent oratory skills…
“Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.”
“After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.”
Congratulations to the Politico for finally catching onto this. Of course for anyone who was watching during the 2008 campaign, the teleprompter addiction was all too obvious.
Which leads one back to the question of why so many late night cowards comics just can’t find anything to make fun of when it comes to Obama.
Iowahawk, who is MUCH funnier than the Onion put together the brilliantly funny video below. We owe a debt to RedState for introducing us to this comedic gem. How we missed it last fall I have no idea.
Watch the laugh-out-loud funny -- “A Special Message from Barack Obama’s Teleprompter”
