More Bully Pulpit, Please.

I fucked up again. Lesson learned: political arguments placed in comment feeds on Facebook hurt my brain. Of all the construed bad things my kids are going to hear in their lifetime, a little bully pulpit from the president isn't a concern. I wonder what the kids would get out of it? Hopefully I'll remember to ask when some political memo goes out getting people to talk about nonsense when we've got bigger & better things to worry about. Like war, economic instability, religious pedophiles, narcissistic celebrities and teenage mirroring, narcissistic celebrities and lemming mirroring, or ... war.

For the record, here is the transcript of his speech. For the brain stems: you have scroll down before the transcript starts. Reading the page should help guide you to the transcript. A "transcript" is written words of what someone said. In this case, the president. Please go away if I've lost you.

http://www.inewscatcher.com/2009/09/obama-school-speech-transcript-video.html

After looking over the reports & quotes of people that didn't like what the tall, skinny black guy had to say I realized we're either operating out of fear, or not fear.

Fear (from cnn.com):

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH. "I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

Scared? In fear?

From Google.com:

"As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education — it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality," said Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Steve Russell. "This is something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."

Fearful places, no?

From the Seattle Times:

Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the conservative Cato Institute, said the lesson plans accompanying the speech are "troubling." "Reasonable people can disagree" about Obama's policies, he said. "But they don't want their kids to be indoctrinated. This is potentially a tool of indoctrination."

Fear the indoctrination!

The transcript is there. And black guys have huge dicks. If Obama keeps getting to speak, American women are going to want him, and guys that are just like him. Black guys. Then my wife is going to leave me for a black guy ... and then what?!? My little white dick doesn't stand a chance!