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March 01st, 2010 | Author: akagaga
Americans laughed at the the ‘Obama as messiah’ cartoons. They turned away when they saw school children singing his praises, à la Hitler. They wondered what all the hoopla was about when he gave a speech to public schools across the country. And they ignored him when he said it was “the goal of this administration to ensure that every child has access to a complete and competitive indoctrination education – from the day they are born to the day they begin a career.” [emphasis added]
Now parents have another issue to ignore. [Thanks to Pamela Geller who broke this story.]
- Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change.
- OFA is launching a national internship program connecting students all over the country with our organization on the ground – working to make the change we fought so hard for in 2008 a reality in 2010 and beyond.
- Winter 2010 internships (dates are flexible depending on your school’s schedule)
- The Internship requires a commitment of 12 hours per week
- Credit must be approved by your school ahead of time
Thus begins an application being given to high school students, recruiting them to take a ten-week course on community organizing. It includes the following recommended reading:
- Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
- The New Organizers, Zack Exley
- Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen
- Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post
- Dreams of My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Hussein Obama
In other words, Obama is doing exactly what he said he would do. He’s taking over the minds of young Americans, creating the political machine of the future, and using tax-payer-funded public schools to do the job.
You gotta give it to him: Obama knows how to organize.
If this doesn’t motivate you to get your kids out of the public school system, and home school them, then you are beyond hope … and change.
Category: Obama, politics, public school, socialism
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February 27th, 2010 | Author: akagaga
Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.
Does this mean that the independents and the Republicans think the Bush era – with the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps, and torture – didn’t threaten our rights?
I’ve got a headache.
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February 17th, 2010 | Author: akagaga
CBS, Little Rock, Arkansas, February 16, 2010:
Asked what her advice would be to conservatives as the November elections approach, Palin first lavished praise on the Tea Party movement, calling it “a grand movement” and adding, “I love it because it’s all about the people.”
But she quickly pivoted to the broader question of whether the Tea Party movement might successfully field its own candidates in national elections, and on that point she sounded far from convinced.
“Now the smart thing will be for independents who are such a part of this Tea Party movement to, I guess, kind of start picking a party,” Palin said. “Which party reflects how that smaller, smarter government steps to be taken? Which party will best fit you? And then because the Tea Party movement is not a party, and we have a two-party system, they’re going to have to pick a party and run one or the other: ‘R’ or ‘D’.”
That’s a bit like telling the prisoner to stop whining and decide which leg he wants amputated. She’s either politically savvy and trying to hijack the tea-party movement – or she’s stupid and really doesn’t get it.
I don’t think she’s stupid.
Category: Sarah Palin, Tea Party, politics
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February 08th, 2010 | Author: akagaga
Most Christians that I know, if given a choice, would vote for Sarah Palin over Barrack Obama. Palin embodies the positions of the current conservative right. Obama is the liberal left in presidential form.
After reading some of Palin’s recent remarks in a Fox interview, though, I have to wonder what God thinks about her stands.
However, there are many things that he [Obama] is doing today that cause an uneasiness in many, many Americans, I’m one of those.
Who looks at the way that he is treating the trials of these terrorists and kind of as gosh, they’re on a crime spree right now. No, we are in war. These are acts of these war that these terrorists are committing. We need to treat them a little bit differently than an American who is worthy — an American being worthy of our U.S. constitutional rights. I don’t think the terrorists are worthy of our rights that people like my son fight and are willing to die for.
I won’t argue whether terrorists in America should face military or civilian courts.
What I will argue is that it’s not just Americans who are “worthy” of our U.S. constitutional rights. It’s every man, woman, and child on the planet. God loves them all, and to say that only Americans should be treated decently is the height of hypocrisy. Our Declaration of Independence states that the rights Palin would deny to terrorists are God-given rights, not United States rights given only to Americans.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Category: Obama, Tea Party, liberty, politics
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