[Vision2020] President Obama's Socialist Mind-Control "Back to School" Speech Released

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Sorry Dave, but many of those opposed to the speech may not be able to read, write, or argue coherently.

W.
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  From: Dave 
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  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] President Obama's Socialist Mind-Control "Back to School" Speech Released


  I think the kids whose parents don't want them to hear the speech should 
  be made to write a defense of their opposing viewpoint and explain why 
  they should NOT study hard and stay in school.

  Dave


  Tom Hansen wrote:
  > Courtesy of the White House website at:
  >
  > 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.
  >
  > --------------------------------------------------
  >
  > " . . . write your own destiny . . . make your own future . . . become
  > good at things through hard work . . . you can't let your failures define
  > you . . ."
  >
  > It's all socialist mind-control.  What's next?  Affordable health care?
  >
  > Seeya round town, comrades.
  >
  > Tom Hansen
  > Moscow, Idaho
  >
  > "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
  > and the Realist adjusts his sails."
  >
  > - Unknown
  >
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