Republicans are brainswashing our Children: Must Read article about a Child's question to Obama

[MadBadger]

I dont even know how to adress this issue, but just watch the video to the right and you will feel the same sense of disgust that I had.

Did Immigration Ads Spark Link to Terror?
5th Grader Questions Obama, Making Immigration-Terror Link

By TEDDY DAVIS, SUNLEN MILLER and NANCY FLORES
Dec, 14, 2007

When Iowa Democrat Tod Bowman got home Thursday night, he got an earful from his wife about what their fifth-grader had just done.

Earlier that day, their son, Beau Bowman, asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., what he would do as president if U.S. troops were not yet back from Iraq when illegal immigrants "start to take action and start bombing buildings and stuff."

When Beau Bowman's mom said how "embarrassed" she was, Tod Bowman's first reaction was that their 11-year-old had simply mangled his words.

But in an interview with ABC News on Friday, Bowman said that he now thinks it's more than likely that his son's question was prompted by immigration ads which have been bombarding Iowa in advance of the state's Jan. 3 caucuses.


"We watch probably more political shows than the normal family," said Bowman, a high-school government teacher. "He hears a lot from television commercials and those shows about immigration and terrorism and I'm sure he kind of blended them together."

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The most graphic illegal immigration ad to air in Iowa thus far has been run by Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

The ad, which features a child covered in blood, warns that Islamic terrorists frothing with hate freely roam U.S. soil.

The ad culminates with a hooded man detonating a bomb.

You can watch the ad by clicking here.

While Tancredo's ad is the most explicit, he is far from alone in making the connection between illegal immigration and national security.

Former Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas sits atop the polls in Iowa, is currently running an ad in the Hawkeye State in which he says, "Our government has failed us. Build a border fence. Secure the border. And do it now."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=4003240&page=2

[MNDemNY]

1. And what would Obama do? Did he answer the question?

[MadBadger]

3. His answer was in the video.

[MadBadger]

4. To clarify, I posted this article because it just shocked me, not because of Obama's response.

[MNDemNY]

5. Sorry, attempt at humor.

[jillan]

2. Tancredo's ad must be really, really frightening to a kid.

So sad the repugs have to terrorize us.

[NMMNG]

6. That's how they win elections and control the masses

Scare people into submission.

[sandnsea]

7. The DNC should be after that stuff

That's outrageous. How can any decent human being show an ad like that. That should be off the air immediately.

[IntravenousDemilo]

8. "How can any decent human being show an ad like that?"

The answer is right there in the question. ;)

[sandnsea]

10. What about the station owners

They have some responsibility in this too.

[IntravenousDemilo]

13. They might feel some responsibility if they were halfway decent. All they care about is $$$. n/m

[Capn Sunshine]

9. I have a call into Howard Dean right now about this.

They need to be called on this bullshit. It's absolutely shameful. Howard always highlights how Republicans play the fear card to our country's detriment.

He's going to come out with some strong statements between Primaries.

[havocmom]

11. Back in the 70s, RW lunatics started running for school boards - and getting in.

Things have been sliding to the crapper ever since. More of them got in to those important local boards in the 80s. By the 90s, some had moved up to Congress and the second generation hit the local boards and lower offices. Newt ran his Goebbels classes on propaganda technique and the crapper overflowed.

Media consolidation in very few, ideologically matched hands.

Schools totally trashed by fundies and wingers dismantling core education, attacking science especially hard. Lowering graduation standards and shortening the school day/year to save money in local economies strapped by tax revolts at state and federal levels

Don't worry, be happy, go to the mall philosophy replacing anything resembling dealing with reality.

To keep the non-shoppers (and the growing too-broke to shop working class) from thinking, they offer ridiculous fear mongering.

And when workers fail economically, you had better have a bag of scape goats to throw at them, lest they start really noticing how well the top 1% is doing as they drown (literally, before the nation's eyes in NOLA) Gotta make sure people channel their hate and anger at the powerless. Gotta make sure there are defenseless people at hand to be blamed for all that is going badly.

Brainwashing on a societal scale is the only way so many people could become so fucking ignorant and mentally unfit to SEE, let alone deal with, reality. The level of brainwashing, of making people comfortable in their ignorance is reinforced with 'leaders' who are dull and dim, who do not make people uncomfortably by challenging and stimulating them.

We don't have leaders, we have rulers. The front men, playing the roll of leaders are just tranquilizers to make the people feel OK as the life is being sucked out of them and the country.

[loyalsister]

12. This was inevitable

In fact encouraged. It was always all about terrorism. They chose a very sick way (tapping into racism) to keep the issue alive.