Children and Obama

[pastorables]

Our six year old came home today singing the praises of Obama. We have spent time tonight trying to explain to him why Obama would be the wrong man to lead our nation. It's obvious he heard other children on the bandwagon. What does this tell us about the election when children in the South are proclaiming Obama?

pa

[Mike Vande]

What does this tell us about the election when children in the South are proclaiming Obama?

pa

IT means you should be asking if the teachers at school are hyping kids on him. I'd be a bit upset if I found out teachers were indoctrinating my kids in politics.

[Billy n NC]

Check there Weekly Reader.. LOL

[RamboPreacher]

What does this tell us about the election when children in the South are proclaiming Obama?

pa

IT means you should be asking if the teachers at school are hyping kids on him. I'd be a bit upset if I found out teachers were indoctrinating my kids in politics.

this was the first thing that I thought of too, and agree.

[one love]

Most likely it is the hip thing right now. On all the shows to young people and the most popular stars/singers/hip hop rappers are all making Obama the coolest thing there ever was and it is making kids think they know something about politics.
The teacher I am sure is not discouraging this either and I would talk to them just to make sure what is being said in there school. I would imagine if you asked your kid he/she would tell you that all the kids are talking about Obama. He is what is cool

McCain is some Old person who is evil and against what is right to them...Sad so sad. They tried this with Kerry but it did not work as much as it is with Obama. Even on B.E.T. that is all they talk about and there news show just talks about how McCain lies about this and that and how great and honest Obama is.

I had someone make a "bullettin" on myspace that said this

Sarah Palin's resume on being able to run a government that represents over 300 million people:

- Bachelor's degree in journalism (with a minor in political science) from the University of Idaho. A Journalism degree is not particularly relevant nor beneficial for a president. Dick Cheney even received a masters degree and started a doctoral degree. She would be the first president since Herbert Hoover (who even went to stanford) to have an irrelevant degree. All presidents since then have had degrees (except truman who went to law school for 2 years but had 35 years gov't experience) related to the military, business, law and politics. Since 1897, only two presidents have had degrees not related to being an administrator in some way. Those presidents only served one term and are considered unsuccessful by historians.



- Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996, then mayor 1996 – 2002. As mayor of Wasilia, Palin built - as her legacy - a $15 million multi-use indoor ice arena on land that did not belong to the city. It will cost Wasilla at least an additional $1.67 million to acquire the land which the town is attempting to pay for by cutting library services, postponing capital improvement projects, and raising fees. Most cities under 10K don't have such expensive facilities. This put her town into debt. This is against the GOP platform against wasteful spending and throwing the gov't into debt.



- Threatened a lawsuit to stop the listing of polar bears on the endangered species list, fearing that it would hurt oil and gas development in the bears' habitat off Alaska's northern and northwestern coasts. She has also been a vocal critic of scientists who suggest that climate change is leading to the decrease in polar bears in Alaska.



- Is responsible for approving a $400,000 state-funded propaganda campaign to justify Alaska's barbaric wolf slaughter from the skies.



- Her Husband works for BP energy corporation at an oil field on Alaska's North Slope (families ties to oil company)

- Zero Foreign policy experience, if you exclude her negotiating with foreign energy companies to exploit American resources. She is considered the leader of the Alaskan national guard but this is largely symbolic since she does not have authority to send the national guard into war. Biden, Obama, Cheney and McCain have all worked on legislation on national foreign policy. There are 17 border states, just because you're a governor of a border state doesn't mean you have national foreign policy experience.



- Does not know what the V.P. actually does. “As for that V.P. talk all the time,” she told CNBC’s Larry Kudlow in late July, “I tell ya, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me: What is it exactly that the V.P.

does every day?"

- She has a total of a little under 2 years in state government. In comparison, Sen. Obama has 7 years of experience in state government and 3 years in federal government.



- She has less experience (beyond the local level) in government than Obama, McCain, and Biden.****** If she assumes the presidency within McCain's first term, she would assume office with less experience beyond the local level in the government than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY of the United States.

*******

- Palin has said she is "as pro-life as any candidate can be" and called abortion "an atrocity." She has supported mandatory parental consent, and while she is pro-contraception, has also indicated her preference for abstinence education over "sex-ed programs." She would permit abortion in cases where the mother's life was endangered, but not in the case of rape or incest.


****** Important Note: There is nothing wrong with being pro-life. Palin is not only pro-life, but also ANTI-choice.



- Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is "God's task." She's even admitted she hasn't thought about the war much—just last year she was quoted saying, "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.

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- In August 2008, according to an interview she claimed to have had no idea what the Bush administration's plans were for Iraq and defended her stance stating it has nothing to do with state affairs, even though Alaska has a large military base.



- Supports Death Penalty

- Supports unrestricted right to keep and bear arms and is a member of the National Rifle Association. Palin says, "I am a lifetime member of the NRA and I support our Constitutional right to bear arms." In 2004 in the U.S., 1804 children and teenagers were murdered in gun homicides, 846 committed suicide with guns and 143 died in unintentional shootings.



- Is a member of Feminists for Life; she backs capital punishment, and opposes same-sex marriage.



- Supported Alaska's decision to amend its Constitution to ban same-sex marriage and would support a ballot question to deny benefits to homosexual couples.

That is just half of the garbage in the bulletin from a friend which he surely did not write but this is the cool thing. I would love a good response to this rather i write something short and then love to have some point against Obama that others have written anyone a have a good source?

[MacUser]

Sounds like you need to be about the real liberal education. If you don't do it. Someone else will.

I have been from day one breaking down the differences between the candidates to my children attempting to keep them involved so they understand.. also they will have a historical reference (memory) in the future for what "my dad and mom" believed in and why.

I want to do my best to lay a foundation as early as possible to what, why, and how we think the way we do and the Godly reasons behind it.

Knowing that nobody is perfect and that all have shortcomings.. but we must be able to choose and support the individual that matches (as close as possible) our overall personal values with certain Godly elements/issues being pivotal and trumping others.

If you teach that then hopefully our future men and women will be able to make decisions by themselves without depending on vacant pop culture talking heads or pop icons for life guidance.

Give a child a fish he eats for a day, teach a child how to fish and feed him for a lifetime.