NY Daily News column: Loons should shut up and listen: Obama not out to brainwash schoolkids

[Heidi]

Monday, September 7th 2009, 4:00 AM

The woman came across Third Ave. at 115th St., four children holding on to her and each other, the fifth being pushed in a stroller, all of them walking toward the PS 57 Leadership Academy, also known as the James Weldon Johnson School.

The woman was asked what kind of school PS 57 was and smiled.

"A good one, that's what kind," she said. "Pre-K through seventh grade."

There were these bright orange banners on the outside of the school along 115th, the morning wind blowing through them like banners at the ballpark, announcing a "Rigorous Curriculum" and "Scholar Programs" and "Theater" and "Visual Arts." On a bright morning like this, the place about to come alive this week, it was like a shining landmark of the city.

Except that if you have been listening over the past few days to the lunatic fringe, PS 57 and all schools like it, in New York and all across the country, are at great risk now, not because of budget cutbacks or the swine flu, but because President Obama wants to give a speech about education to the nation's schoolchildren tomorrow.

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Of course. Who would want to put their children at risk this way, listening to a success story like this President's, listening to him describe the possibilities of both education and America, talking to them about hard work? But then so much of this comes from the same mouth-breathers who look at a health care plan as some sort of Socialist manifesto, and see opposition to it as a call to arms.

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[Richardo]

1. Morning Heidi!

:hi:

Nice article - it gets a Rec. :patriot:

[Heidi]

2. Mornin', sunshine,

er, Richardo! :D

[DainBramaged]

3. By Mike Lupica no less, I hope it goes viral........

:hi:

[kentuck]

4. Governor Pawlenty, GOP hopeful, agrees with the loons?

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who thinks he is going to be President someday even as he makes Sarah Palin sound like a Fulbright scholar in comparison, called the Obama speech "disruptive."

"I don't think needs to force upon the nation's schoolchildren," Pawlenty said.

If Pawlenty thinks that, here's all he really knows about the nation's schoolchildren: He didn't hit the books nearly hard enough when he was one.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/09/07/2009-09-07_time_for_the_loons_to_shut_up_and_listen.html#ixzz0QQ6ggvOR

[malaise]

5. Excellent article

You know Republicans don't want children to work hard in school. They need drop outs for their wars and for cheap labor.

What's more, if all you've told your children is about lazy black people who are good for nothing, letting them see Obama mashes down your myths about them.
Imagine if your kids realize that Obama is clearly a better role model than your lunatic RW parents.

They aren't fooling anyone.

[RagAss]

6. Exactly...the GOP lives off of the 80 IQ population !

[Heidi]

7. !