9-7-09
comrade Obama's Scary Kids Speech - You are the Property of the State - Do What I Tell You - or Greetings, cancer or AIDS?
Obama made/will make tomorrow, Tuesday September 8, 2009 an address to kids to tell them what is expected of them by their government in school this year. No Mr. Obama. In America kids are not the property, slaves of the state with a production quota like - pick three rows of cotton or die. In America education is an opportunity, not a demand, not a responsibility, to be an American. If the President expects kids to make good grades in school, to this that or the other for the state, then it follows the President expects that he has the right to order our kids to do anything he wants them to do - kill Americans he deems a threat to him. Obama's talk strikes me as words from a communi$t dictator to slaves.
Obama calls himself "buster"
and by extension Obama is calling kids "buster." Obama tells teachers
it is their responsibility to push "buster" to learn. What is the
definition of buster and push? buster n. >1 short for BRONCOBUSTER, TRUSTBUSTER,
etc.
>2 [also B-] boy; man; fellow: a mildly contemptuous or jocular term of direct
address con[tempt
n. 1 the feeling or attitude of one who looks down on somebody or something
as being low, mean, or unworthy; scorn 2 the condition of being despised or
scorned.
Basically Obama's speech I define as totally and completely unAmerica and it is designed to anger. It makes me wonder if Obama is gloating Americans into a civil war.
"This is no picnic for me either, buster."
what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.
What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country.
your teachers’ responsibility ... pushing you to learn.
government’s responsibility for setting high standards,
and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities.
the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.
your parents’ responsibility
until you join student government
You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS (Threat that Translates - Don't do good in school and build the government, the government is going to give you cancer or AIDS)
if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak English when she
Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren’t any different from any of you. ( What about the Bill, Mary, and John's)
I hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter. ( Hello mandatory flu shots. Who says this is not a political speech.)
Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand in. Arrogance
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights (Obama is talking violence.)
what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country? ( Obama is asking kids to fight his fights.)
But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.
What about Obama's responsibility to live by the US Constitution and his US Constitutional responsibility to be ordered by Congress to send drones or operatives in to Pakistan before he sends drones or operatives to Pakistan? What about Obama's responsibility to be a natural born citizen, ie a president whose mother and father were US citizens, before he runs for president? What about Obama's responsibility to keep campaign promises and not do the will of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers over the will of the voters?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
Prepared Remarks of President
Barack Obama
Back to School Event
Arlington, Virginia
September 8, 2009
The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m
here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve
got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth
grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.
I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those
of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first
day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous.
I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right
now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you’re in,
some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could’ve
stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.
I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few
years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American
kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday
through Friday – at 4:30 in the morning.
Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d
fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain,
my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This
is no picnic for me either, buster."
So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m
here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m
here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s
expected of all of you in this new school year.
Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked
a lot about responsibility.
I’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility
for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.
I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility
for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t
spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.
I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility
for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning
around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting
the opportunities they deserve.
But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most
supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it
will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities.
Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen
to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it
takes to succeed.
And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each
of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility
you have to yourself.
Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one
of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility
to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education
can provide.
Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good enough to write a book
or articles in a newspaper – but you might not know it until you write
a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor
– maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine
or vaccine – but you might not know it until you do a project for your
science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice,
but you might not know that until you join student government or
the debate team.
And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll
need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police
officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our
military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of
those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good
job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.
And this isn’t just important for your own life and your own future. What
you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this
country. What you’re learning in school today will determine
whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.
You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science
and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop
new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights
and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight
poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more
fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop
in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost
our economy.
We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect
so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that
– if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting
on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.
Now I know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of
you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on
your schoolwork.
I get it. I know what that’s like. My father left my family when I was
two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to
pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids
had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times
when I was lonely and felt like I didn’t fit in.
So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been. I did some things
I’m not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life
could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to
go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady
Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college,
and they didn’t have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard,
so that she could go to the best schools in this country.
Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don’t have adults
in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family
has lost their job, and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you
live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who
are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right.
But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look
like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going
on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework
or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to
your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse
for not trying.
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end
up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write
your own destiny. You make your own future.
That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.
Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin
didn’t speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone
in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either.
But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University,
and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr.
Jazmin Perez.
I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s
fought brain cancer since he was three. He’s endured all sorts of treatments
and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer
– hundreds of extra hours – to do his schoolwork. But he never fell
behind, and he’s headed to college this fall.
And then there’s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois.
Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods,
she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young
people out of gangs; and she’s on track to graduate high school with honors
and go on to college.
Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren’t any different from
any of you. They faced challenges in their lives just like you do. But they
refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their education and
set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.
That’s why today, I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals
for your education – and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal
can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class,
or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved
in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you’ll
decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they
are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve
a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take better
care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I
hope you’ll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when
you don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu
this fall and winter.
Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really
work at it.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful
without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball
or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any
of those things.
But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject
you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment
will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t
necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones
who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book
was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was
cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and
missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have
failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your
failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let
them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that
doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder
to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid,
it just means you need to spend more time studying.
No one’s born being good at things, you become good at things through
hard work. You’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new
sport. You don’t hit every note the first time you sing a song. You’ve
got to practice. It’s the same with your schoolwork. You might have to
do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few
times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before
it’s good enough to hand in.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help
when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of
weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit
when you don’t know something, and to learn something new. So find an
adult you trust – a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor
– and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and
you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give
up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on
your country.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough.
It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country
too much to do anything less than their best.
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went
on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where
you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who
fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat
where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed
the way we communicate with each other.
So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to
be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you
make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred
years say about what all of you did for this country?
Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure
you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working
hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers
you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect
you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort
into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t
let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself
down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.