February 16, 2009, - 11:19 am
Presidents Day, Bribing Kids Into “Yes We Can” Edition; AP Tells Us That Obama Does “Wonders For Kids”
By Debbie Schlussel
Remember the Obama campaign videos of kids teaching other kids to blackmail their parents and grandparents into voting for Obama? Remember JINO-AINO (Jew In Name Only-American In Name Only) Sarah Silverman’s vile video in which–in between F-words–she told kids to extort Obama votes from their grandparents by threatening not to visit?
Well, the campaign continues and so does the bribery and extortion. In honor of Presidents Day, the National Education Association a/k/a Crappy Teachers Eternal Job Security Club and kidthing.com held a contest for kids to see who could spout the most Marxist pro-Obama garbage. Winners of the letters and drawings contest are featured in a free e-book released today. Hmmm . . . who knew a new version of Das Kapital for Das Kids was being released today?
Kids in schools all over America were forced to participate in this ridiculous Konsomol Youth (the kids part of the Soviet Communist Party) style promotion. Kids who won predictably asked President Obama to end war forever, make the planet greener, and–my personal favorite, but equally as plausible–“Make it rain candy!” (I think the stimulus bill does that, at the cost of a gazillion dollars.) And then there’s the kid version of Rodney King . . .
Anthony Pape, 10, of DuBois, Pa., offered: “I hope that we will have no war ever again. I mean why are we fighting why can’t we all be friends.”
Fellow 10-year-old Sasha Townsend of Soquel, Calif., had a similar request, and then some.
“I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war,” the fifth-grader wrote. “I am very luckey [sic] because I am not part of a military family, but it saddens me to hear about all the people who die in Iraque [sic]and know that somewhere In the world people are greiving [sic]over a lost family member.”
Hmmm . . . I think we just found the new Miss Teen South Carolina.
Seven-year-old Aaron Van Blerkom’s letter was simpler – but no less problematic.
“Dear Mr. Obama,” the Pasadena, Calif., first-grader began, “Please Make it rain candy!”
The “Dear Mr. President” project was a joint effort between the National Education Association and kidthing.com, which is putting out the book for use with its downloadable media player. A special hardcopy edition of the book will be sent to the White House for Obama, who has done wonders to bring the office of the presidency to life for young people.
HUH? Did Associated Press just preach Obama campaign BS as fact? Obama has done wonders? Ronald Reagan didn’t do wonders to bring the office of the Presidency to life for young people? Um, as someone who was a kid during that time, I beg to differ about who did wonders when and for whom.
It gets worse:
Lawrence Hitchcock, chief executive officer of the Web site, said more than 4,500 letters were considered. . . . “There were Latino kids saying, ‘Please change the immigration laws so my dad can come back from Mexico.’ This is a profound snapshot of a social narrative of young kids during an important moment in history. It really kind of stunned us what came in through the front door.”
Uh, no. It’s a not-so-profound regurgitation of hackneyed far-leftism from some young kids carefully chosen by lefties who run the NEA and wish to perpetuate themselves and their agenda.
Another of the winners, 12-year-old Destiny McLaurin, a sixth-grader from Medford, N.Y., had friendship on her mind. . . .
“I feel very proud because I know he’ll be able to make a change in the country and we’ll be a lot more happier,” Destiny said. “I think he should make people feel more welcome, people who don’t really get along with other people.”
Aaron’s wish is a little more specific. If Obama makes candy drop from the sky, he’s hoping for his favorite: candy canes! And if the president showed up at his school, he’d have these requests:
“Make fires and earthquakes not exist. Make no tornadoes or any of those things that break things.”
An 11-year-old boy from Ohio drew himself in tears at the side of a relative. His dream, he wrote, is that a “cure for cancer will be found” with Obama in the White House. . . .
Another child drew Obama as the “new sunrise of America.” One made Earth and labeled it “Obamaland,” and still another created the president’s face as half dark and half light skin tones with the words: “United We Are One.”
No better time to quote Moon Unit Zappa from her ’80s hit: Gag me with a spoon.
Of course, if your kid said, “Dear President Obama, Please don’t tax my mommy and daddy out of a job,” or, “Please don’t make nice with bad people like Mr. Ahmadinejad who said my great-grandparents really didn’t die in an oven and who wants to kill me and my family,” you can bet he or she didn’t win. Life is tough that way. If you don’t spout the orthodox party line of the “popular kids” in the White House, fuhgedaboutit.
I guess you get what you pay for. My fifth grader (who goes to private school) spelled “lucky” correctly. And this was not a piece of paper being sent to the (fake) president. Doesn’t anyone proof read this drivel? Glad my kids aren’t being indoctrinated the way these poor souls are.
Leah on February 16, 2009 at 12:10 pm