re: #311 Occasional Reader

I agree. And of course, Killgore’s going to distort our point to make it look like we’re “paranoids” who are claiming that Obama is indoctrinating toddlers to kill us in our sleep, or something. But, whatever.

The “help the President” line was poorly thought out; and again, it appeared to have survived the highest levels of scrutiny in the Administration without anyone realizing anything was “off” about it. I’m reminded of Obama’s bizarre “it’s my job is to fight negative stereotypes of Islam” line in the Cairo speech. Are they asleep at the switch, or what?

The “to help the President” bit is in the lesson plan, I believe.

If the point of the activities is to see whether kids listened to the speech or not, what is it that’s going to be in the speech that would make that an activity or “lesson” that the kids need to understand?

Now, this speech may perfectly well be completely benign; however, parents need to get a copy of the thing so they know what their kids heard, and have their own family conversation with their kids.

I’m not against the speech, in general.

I do have to wonder if there will be something in there suggesting that citizens need to work to “help the President”, rather than expecting our government to work for us.

It’s not paranoia - it’s a legitimate concern, and would I would apply to that part of a “lesson plan” suggested by ANY PRESIDENT.