re: #43 Sharmuta

I’ll set aside my snarkiness for a moment to say something important.

This is something that every child in this country should hear, because in this one segment- the history of America echos. Men and women from across the globe have come here and written their own destinies. They had children who went on to write their own destinies. And more come to our shores every day with this same hope- the promise of opportunity.

For those holding their children back from school so they can avoid this now apparently horrible message- shame on you. You spit on the men and women who define the American Dream, you spit on those who have defended the American Dream, and you rob your children of the opportunity to ponder this Dream tomorrow. It’s about the most un-American thing I’ve seen in many years. Beyond disappointing.

I could not agree more. It is a fact that having a black person in the White House has been an positive inspiration for many young, black U.S. citizens. I welcome our president’s leverage of that fact to inspire our children.
But what about the hoopla and paranoia that Obama’s speaking to our children? This indicates less a symptom of loon ism than an indication of the fact that Obama has lost the trust of a large segment of the U.S. population. And whose fault is it that he has lost this trust? Perhaps too many of us recall the questionable associations of Obama with people like Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, et al, along with the astounding narcissism and profligate spending of our tax money that Obama has demonstrated to all of us. Can the paranoid be blamed for being paranoid?