Obama's socialist indoctorine speech text.

[SirNitram]

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The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.
I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.
I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.
Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."
So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.
Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked a lot about responsibility.
I’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.
I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve.
But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.
And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.
Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor – maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.
And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.
And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
Now I know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.
I get it. I know what that’s like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn’t fit in.
So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I’m not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.
Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.
Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.
I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was three. He’s endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer – hundreds of extra hours – to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he’s headed to college this fall.
And then there’s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods, she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of gangs; and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.
Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren’t any different from any of you. They faced challenges in their lives just like you do. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.
That’s why today, I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education – and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.
Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.
No one’s born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work. You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song. You’ve got to practice. It’s the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust – a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor – and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?
Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

The conservatives were right! COMMIE IDEALS!

[Lord MJ]

They'll argue that this is the modified text. Obama only changed it due to the backlash of freedom loving people over his plan to preach socialism and create his own "Obama Youth."

[Serafina]

Oh...so he talked to students about responsiblity? /sarcasm

A good spech, and i do not see any "commie ideals" in it.
But perhaps the right-wingers are afraid that they will have to convince educated people of their nutcase "ideals" - which is very hard work.

[Haruko]

There has to be a secret message in their somewhere about supporting health care reform to kill Republicans.

[Samuel]

There has to be a secret message in their somewhere about supporting health care reform to kill Republicans.

It is subliminal so you won't find it in the speech write up.

[Gil Hamilton]

I've never seen a bigger mess of socialist rantings in my life. Pfffft... telling school children to work hard in school and they might accomplish something. No wonder Right Thinking Americans are pulling their kids from school to avoid this. Better truant than red!

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

Must... Crush... Capitalism...

[Crossroads Inc.]

They'll argue that this is the modified text. Obama only changed it due to the backlash of freedom loving people over his plan to preach socialism and create his own "Obama Youth."

You are exactly right, I caught a bit of FauxNews earlier and there where two knuckleheads talking about how this is clearly an altered speech and that Obama is "Conceding once more to the will of America" by charging what was evidently a hugely socialistic speech to the one released today.

[PainRack]

On one hand, I really want to talk about how great this speech is and how inspiring. And given Obama skills at oratory, how moving it would be and the probability that I would cry if I watch it alone in full.....


On the other hand......... Thanks Bleck and Republican shitters for ruining a moment.

[SirNitram]

They'll argue that this is the modified text. Obama only changed it due to the backlash of freedom loving people over his plan to preach socialism and create his own "Obama Youth."

How'd you guess?

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Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer appeared on CNN today, and accused the White House of changing the content of President Obama's stay-in-school speech in the wake of conservative outrage at political indoctrination -- outrage that he was instrumental in mobilizing, by the way -- and that the original would have been much more politically-oriented.

"Clearly last week there was a plan with the Department of Education," said Greer. "When you ask students to write a letter to the President on, how we can help you with your new ideas, Mr. President, that is leading the students in an effort to push the President's agenda. Now that the White House got their hand in the cookie jar caught, they changed everything, they redid the lesson plans, they released the text, and tomorrow he's gonna give a speech that every president should have an opportunity to give."

Suzanne Malveaux asked Greer if he had any inside information that the White House changed the speech.

"No, I don't," said Greer. "But I would anticipate, based on this President being so vocal and so aggressive about his vision of America, where government is in every aspect of our lives, I believe that the speech that he was gonna give, based on the lesson plans, is different.

Naturally.

[Pulp Hero]

"The proof that he plans to spread socialism with his speech is the fact that he didn't spread socialism with his speech."

[Count Chocula]

No big deal, as predicted. If Obama's staff had just released the key talking points for this stuff, like they do for every other speech the President gives, it would have been a slow news week. On the other hand, maybe Jim Greer was right (cue ominous music and the whap-whap-whapping of black helicopters)...nah.

The various posters and radio hosts deriding this as an attempt to "brainwash" the youts of America or have the youts nag their parents into voting Commie clearly have no idea how little information from one 30-minute speech sinks into a 4-12 year old's mind, or how little influence youts have on their parents' political beliefs.

BTW, Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia was where I was supposed to attend high school. 20 years ago it was a shithole, but maybe it's better now. That place was the reason I went to Catholic high school. I hope the Secret Service keep their eyes peeled!

[Hawkwings]

Going on right now. Camera shots of the crowd shows those kids looking bored and not paying attention? Course, what did I expect?

[Big Orange]

This is Obama's speech that Weazel News has been whinging about?! Nothing's happened, no school kids have put on ushankas and pulled out AK-47s then marched onto Washington DC. In fact Obama's speech is a-poltical, non-contentious, and rather boring.

[Haruko]

Has anyone tried playing his speech backwards yet?

You know, just to make sure.

Meanwhile, a few of Obama's political opponents don't try to hide their children indoctrination efforts because they don't need to.

[Simon_Jester]

I've never understood the reasoning behind trying to indoctrinate people with a message that only makes sense when you play it backwards. Are you targeting people whose minds run from future to past? And if so, how do you expect to indoctrinate them in ways that you can use in your future?

[Superboy]

Of course there's never been any real attempt at trying to indoctrinate anyone with a backwards message. It was just a stupid concept someone made up to get parents scared of rock music. Many studies have shown that it wouldn't work anyway.

On topic, I thought it was a good little speech. It was pretty much exactly what I expected, and I think it was really what everyone always expected, except for those few people stupid enough to believe right wing media nutjubs.

[bobalot]

The right-wing in America gets more retarded daily.

Do these douchebags realise how much they trivialise real tyranny when they spout all this bullshit? When they talk about indoctrination, propaganda and Hitler? They might as well flop their dicks out, waltz over to a concentration camp memorial and piss all over it. It would probably be less offensive than the shameless Nazi name dropping.

[Thanas]

^The more the public gets used to it, the more believe in their idiocy and increasingly, the more of the public does not look to closely when the GOP enacts their latest non-democratic legislation like torture. Because after all, they can't be Nazis - those are the other guys.

[Kamakazie Sith]

So, I take it the right does not have any proof for their claims? They're just trying to save face by claiming that Obama edited it?

[General Zod]

So, I take it the right does not have any proof for their claims? They're just trying to save face by claiming that Obama edited it?

If they had proof they'd have shown it by now. All they have is delusional ranting.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

So, I take it the right does not have any proof for their claims? They're just trying to save face by claiming that Obama edited it?

Bingo. I'm thinking the Right just realized they severely overplayed their hand on this and justifiably got the smack across the chops they so richly deserve. It's quite the Good Thing that they've been tarred and feathered as anti-education behind this shit, because it's true.

[FSTargetDrone]

And Laura Bush weighs in:

Laura Bush backs Obama on school speech
Mon Sep 7, 9:04 pm ET

WASHINGTON – Former first lady Laura Bush on Monday expressed support for President Barack Obama's decision to speak to the nation's school children, saying it is "really important for everyone to respect the president of the United States."

In an interview with CNN, Mrs. Bush, a former school teacher, said, "There's a place for the president of the United States to talk to school children and encourage school children" to stay in school. And she said parents and others also need to send that message.

Obama's planned remarks Tuesday to be broadcast by C-SPAN to many schools across the country has drawn protests from conservatives and some parents who said the president is trying to indoctrinate the nation's children. Some parents have said they plan to keep their children home from school because of the Obama speech.

"That's their right," Mrs. Bush said. "That certainly is the right of parents to choose what they want their children to hear in school."

"I also think it's also really important for everyone to respect the president of the United States," she said.

Obama in his speech will urge students to stay in school.

"What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country," Obama will tell the students, according to a transcript released Monday by the White House. "What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future."

Mrs. Bush also decried the extreme political partisanship in the nation.

"We're polarized. ... A lot of people on the right, a lot of people on the left. We've seen that for the last eight years. ... We're still seeing it," she said.

Mrs. Bush praised Obama's performance under difficult circumstances. "He's tackled a lot to start with and that's made it difficult," she said.

She said her husband has refused to criticized Obama because he believes the new president "deserves the respect and no second guessing on the part of a former president."

Still, she said Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been sharply critical of Obama, "has every right to speak out. ... It's certainly Vice President Cheney's right to say whatever he wants to say."

Mrs. Bush was interviewed in Paris, where she was helping promote global literacy as part of a United Nations meeting.

Huh, that's downright reasonable! Her comments in the story are somewhat light on substance, but hardly objectionable. Now, I have zero respect for her husband, whose blight of a presidency has caused, what, trillions of dollars (and not forgetting the dead and maimed on all sides), to be spent on a war we had no business starting. But I can respect these comments on the whole.

[Ritterin Sophia]

It's typical for the First Lady to pick a pet project to support, Laura's was education, she'd be remiss if she didn't back a pro-education speech by the President.

[Haruko]

Seeing Keith Olbermann yesterday mix clips from Obama's children speech with fear mongering paranoid craziness clips from FOXNews was comedy gold.

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"What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future."
"THIS IS CREEPY!"
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So, I take it the right does not have any proof for their claims? They're just trying to save face by claiming that Obama edited it?

A lack of proof means nothing! I see your lack of proof for the last minute changing of an entire speech and raise you an elaborate conspiracy to fool the American republic about your nationality. Anyone who sees the latter would much easily see the former.