Obama's Hot Air Balloons

So the President's address to our nation's students has come to pass.  They are not humming The Internationale while marching in lockstep under the Hope and Change banner, so maybe there was nothing to worry about after all?  Not so fast...

This was a defeat for the Obama Nation. Did conservatives yanking their kids out of school look a little hysterical? Yes, but that lesson plan was creepy, and conservative agitation forced the Department of Education to throw out Chairman Wow's Little Red Book moment .

Did you really believe Propaganda Minister Gibbs when he told us, in that chuckling manner of his, that this was never meant to be anything more than a pep talk? And then the teleprompter spoke: Stay in school, you are our future, bla bla bla...

Chalk this up as another conservative victory.

OK for me, but not for thee

Byron York at The Washington Examiner takes us back to 1991, when Democrats launched hearings and investigations over President George H.W. Bush's speech to school children.

The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported.

A Democratic congress thrashed the president:

"The hearing this morning is to really examine the expenditure of $26,750 of the Department of Education funds to produce and televise an appearance by President Bush at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, DC," Ford began.

Democratic concerns about media manipulation and a misspent government funds seem almost quaint now. Hope and Change has been blaring from national media outlets for more than a year, and $26,000 wouldn't even make a respectable political bribe nowadays.

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Community Organizin'
My kids don't need preached to by the federal government. They have dreams and they see education as the path to a bright future.

Sadly, there are many children in this country who have no such dreams. Asking them to imagine going to college and becoming a scientist is like asking them to imagine a trip to Mars. These youngsters do need to hear messages like this, especially from a president they idolize.

This is the mistake this community organizing administration makes: They survey the American landscape and see the great unwashed, just waiting for the enlightened Philosopher Kings to provide hope and change. Well, many of us are doing fine on our own, thanks. We go to work, our kids go to school, and we make do with what we've got.

We know how to get out of the way of a hurricane because we have not yet been benumbed by government "assistance," so spare us the sermons.

Obama's 9/11 Hijackers

The Long March Continues

The Dear Leader will address all school children next week. What's next? Pipe in his presence to all places of business so he can exhort workers to give Uncle Barack their all?

This will be followed by his community organizing syndicates Hijacking 9/11 and turning it into a day of guilt and shame and atonement at his behest. This is about removing Muslim Terrorists from the narrative and putting the blame on selfish Americans, who can remove the stain of guilt by dropping all that Cowboy Bush talk of "terrism" and instead obeying your government's call to volunteer. As if none of us knew how to do that before Uncle Obama told us to.

Chicago Ray nails it. This is about morphing that tragic and heroic day into a leftist "teachable moment" of shaming and manipulating. You can see a print that makes the point over at at Hot Air.

Russ Wilcox has written an excellent piece, Desecrating 9/11 and Denigrating Christianity, criticizing the Obama Administration in a charitable way, and it spurred my own thoughts on the subject.

I share his reticence to just slam Obama as so many of our ideological friends do, but I also share his criticism of Obama and the rogue's gallery of advisers he has surrounded himself with.

The Long March
If you read "Hoodwinked" by Jack Cashill and "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg it becomes quite clear what they are doing: They are continuing the Long March of Progressvism.

One can believe this without casting aspersions and without believing these people are evil. Indeed, many of them think they are doing The Lord's work (some would say, yeah, the dark lord's!) by taking over government and society to regulate everything for the betterment of the ignorant masses.

They seek not to destroy our institutions of capitalism, family, and church, but to get inside them and turn them to their purposes. It's insidious.

It's God Bless America, Mr. President
I hate to impugn the religious motives of anyone, for I cannot read someone's heart. But what are we to conclude from Obama's 20 year membership in The First United Church of G-d Damn America? He says in his book he joined for political cred or whatever. Religion is just another tool to be used by the movement.

They're showing their true colors, and America doesn't like it
What kind of preacher talks like that anyway? And what kind of aspiring Czar asks sarcastically, "How's that capitalism goin' for ya this year" and calls his fellow communists "comrades"? Most importantly, what kind of man surrounds himself with such demagogues?

There are signs that Americans are getting wise to this. Did these bourgeoisie Bolsheviks really think they could community organize the whole country? Unlike many poor urban dwellers, too benumbed by government dependency to get out of the way of a hurricane, the majority of Americans prefer to take care of themselves.

The hopium cloud is dissipating, the buzz is wearing off, and reality is sinking in... I pray we can turn this back.