Plus, am I wrong or has just about everyone on this forum taken the public option – in education. Public school is the public option and it’s working pretty well. Perfect? No, but neither is private school.

Only correction is we don’t see Conservatives as “Bitchy” when they exhibit the type of behavior that I am constantly reading of online. We see that as downright ignorant, bigotous, racist, etc. It only makes us fight harder. Kate if more of the GOP were grounded as you are, I might take a minute or two to actually listen to what was being said. Thank you for your honesty!

I haven’t mentioned this guy the past couple of days as others have been all over it, led by Jim Hoft. It says volumes about Barack Obama that he’d appoint an avowed Communist with apparent links to 9/11 Truther movements, even though the White House is treading extremely thin ice inexplicably sticking by this guy.

The White House would not say whether the White House’s green-jobs czar, who has been linked to Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists, continues to enjoy the confidence of the president, but an official said he is still a part of the administration.

Van Jones, the president’s special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), has come under fire this week for using an obscenity to describe Republicans and for signing a petition to get Congress to investigate whether the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were an inside government job.

Most of the media is ignoring the story, naturally, but there comes a time when critical mass will be reached, and probably much sooner than later.

The pathetic aspect of this is the obvious non-vetting of Jones or the likelihood Jones was vetted and Obama found nothing offensive about this man. Apparently the tech-savvy wizards at the White House are too incompetent to run a simple search, as many are now in the process of doing.

Now we find Jones also has a thing for the cop-killing darling of the left, Mumia Abu Jamal. This is from 10 years ago, obviously pre-dating Jones’ later hook-up with other radicals in the Truther movement.

Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a death row inmate convicted for the 1981 shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer, said the protest was called after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected claims that Abu-Jamal, a former radio journalist and Black Panther, did not receive a fair trial.

“We knew there was another event going on, but the timing of the court decision is what dictated when the protest was held,” said Van Jones, a San Francisco civil rights lawyer who helped coordinate the protest march.

Via Gabe Malor.

So let the White House play cute and try to minimize the likely Jones association with the wacked-out Truthers. Have at it.

Let’s MoveOn: Why is Obama appointing supporters of cop killers?

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Above — Hitler Youth perform in the Hour of Commemoration in front of the town hall in Tomaszow, Poland in 1941. Their flags bear the ancient Germanic Sig-Rune ‘S’ symbolic of victory.

“My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes…That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication…That is how I will create the New Order.” — Adolf Hitler, 1933.

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* Hitler Youth Anthem :33.

“What is the president for eternity asking me to do?”

“What specific job is he asking me to do?”

“Is he asking anything of anyone else?”

“Teachers? Principals? Parents? The Civilian Peoples Army? The starving Korean people?”

“Does the speech make you want to do anything?”

“Are we able to do what the Glorious Leader Kim is asking of us?”

Yes, Susan, there is a bright and glorius tomorrow for those most willing to sacrifice for the peoples and for the Fearless Most Glorious Totally Kewl and Really Awesome Obama. I bet this puts a tizzy in your step.

I blew off the whole thing until I saw the supporting materials. When the supporting materials call for soliciting written pledges of support to the president from the kids, I perk up and pay attention.

When those same materials contain a decided “bent” toward indoctrinating my children to support top down agenda from the charismatic leader and well ordered statism I get annoyed. (“Why is it important that we listen to the President . . ?”, asks the handout).

When that statist message is conveyed not by a video the teachers can play whenever they want, and which perhaps contains the “school is good” message coming a host of “positive role models” but, instead, by an “EVENT” that focuses only on the POTUS as if POTUS is the only one with the position of moral authority on the issue, well, sorry, but that’s distasteful. It reaches the point of being objectionable right about there too.

You can argue this point, but the fact the White House has caused the things to be revised suggests they were at least open to troubling characterization.

At bottom, the big issue for me is the cult of personality issue. The “president’s big speech to kids” — as if my kids’ teachers, their principal, their parents, and their community have never really said anything important about staying in school prior to now. Don’t you know the President is now the supreme national authority on education?

“What is the president asking me to do?”

“What specific job is he asking me to do?”

“Is he asking anything of anyone else?”

“Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?”

“Does the speech make you want to do anything?”

“Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?”

See that? Suddenly, staying in school, trying hard, and being the best student you can be is not important because its the best way to brighten your future and make good life choices.

Instead, the kids are being taught stay in school because the most important person in the world says so. [rolleyes]