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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And why should that stop you? The ability to
read, write, or argue coherently doesn't seem to be a part of
any criteria related to the current parental
opposition.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue H. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 07, 2009 9:08
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] President
Obama's Socialist Mind-Control "Back toSchool" Speech Released</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Sorry Dave, but many of those opposed to the speech may not
be able to read, write, or argue coherently.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] President
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<DIV><BR></DIV>I think the kids whose parents don't want them to hear the
speech should <BR>be made to write a defense of their opposing viewpoint and
explain why <BR>they should NOT study hard and stay in
school.<BR><BR>Dave<BR><BR><BR>Tom Hansen wrote:<BR>> Courtesy of the
White House website at:<BR>><BR>> <A
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/</A><BR>><BR>>
--------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> Prepared
Remarks of President Barack Obama<BR>> Back to School
Event<BR>><BR>> Arlington, Virginia<BR>> September 8,
2009<BR>><BR>> The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing
today? I’m here with<BR>> students at Wakefield High School in Arlington,
Virginia. And we’ve got<BR>> students tuning in from all across America,
kindergarten through twelfth<BR>> grade. I’m glad you all could join us
today.<BR>><BR>> I know that for many of you, today is the first day
of school. And for<BR>> those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle
or high school, it’s your<BR>> first day in a new school, so it’s
understandable if you’re a little<BR>> nervous. I imagine there are some
seniors out there who are feeling pretty<BR>> good right now, with just
one more year to go. And no matter what grade<BR>> you’re in, some of you
are probably wishing it were still summer, and you<BR>> could’ve stayed
in bed just a little longer this morning.<BR>><BR>> I know that
feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a<BR>> few
years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the<BR>>
American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra
lessons<BR>> herself, Monday through Friday – at 4:30 in the
morning.<BR>> Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot
of times, I’d<BR>> fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But
whenever I’d complain,<BR>> my mother would just give me one of those
looks and say, "This is no<BR>> picnic for me either,
buster."<BR>><BR>> So I know some of you are still adjusting to being
back at school. But I’m<BR>> here today because I have something
important to discuss with you. I’m<BR>> here because I want to talk with
you about your education and what’s<BR>> expected of all of you in this
new school year.<BR>><BR>> Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about
education. And I’ve talked a lot<BR>> about
responsibility.<BR>><BR>> I’ve talked about your teachers’
responsibility for inspiring you, and<BR>> pushing you to
learn.<BR>><BR>> I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for
making sure you stay on<BR>> track, and get your homework done, and don’t
spend every waking hour in<BR>> front of the TV or with that
Xbox.<BR>><BR>> I’ve talked a lot about your government’s
responsibility for setting high<BR>> standards, supporting teachers and
principals, and turning around schools<BR>> that aren’t working where
students aren’t getting the opportunities they<BR>>
deserve.<BR>><BR>> But at the end of the day, we can have the most
dedicated teachers, the<BR>> most supportive parents, and the best
schools in the world – and none of<BR>> it will matter unless all of you
fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you<BR>> show up to those schools;
pay attention to those teachers; listen to your<BR>> parents,
grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes<BR>> to
succeed.<BR>><BR>> And that’s what I want to focus on today: the
responsibility each of you<BR>> has for your education. I want to start
with the responsibility you have<BR>> to yourself.<BR>><BR>> Every
single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of<BR>>
you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself
to<BR>> discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can
provide.<BR>><BR>> Maybe you could be a good writer – maybe even good
enough to write a book<BR>> or articles in a newspaper – but you might
not know it until you write a<BR>> paper for your English class. Maybe
you could be an innovator or an<BR>> inventor – maybe even good enough to
come up with the next iPhone or a new<BR>> medicine or vaccine – but you
might not know it until you do a project for<BR>> your science class.
Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme<BR>> Court Justice,
but you might not know that until you join student<BR>> government or the
debate team.<BR>><BR>> And no matter what you want to do with your
life – I guarantee that you’ll<BR>> need an education to do it. You want
to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a<BR>> police officer? You want to be a
nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a<BR>> member of our military? You’re
going to need a good education for every<BR>> single one of those
careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop<BR>> into a good job.
You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for<BR>>
it.<BR>><BR>> And this isn’t just important for your own life and your
own future. What<BR>> you make of your education will decide nothing less
than the future of<BR>> this country. What you’re learning in school
today will determine whether<BR>> we as a nation can meet our greatest
challenges in the future.<BR>><BR>> You’ll need the knowledge and
problem-solving skills you learn in science<BR>> and math to cure
diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy<BR>>
technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights
and<BR>> critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies
to fight<BR>> poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and
make our nation<BR>> more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity
and ingenuity you<BR>> develop in all your classes to build new companies
that will create new<BR>> jobs and boost our economy.<BR>><BR>> We
need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and<BR>>
intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you
don’t<BR>> do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on
yourself,<BR>> you’re quitting on your country.<BR>><BR>> Now I
know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you<BR>>
have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus
on<BR>> your schoolwork.<BR>><BR>> I get it. I know what that’s
like. My father left my family when I was two<BR>> years old, and I was
raised by a single mother who struggled at times to<BR>> pay the bills
and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had.<BR>> There
were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were<BR>>
times when I was lonely and felt like I didn’t fit in.<BR>><BR>> So I
wasn’t always as focused as I should have been. I did some things
I’m<BR>> not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my
life<BR>> could have easily taken a turn for the worse.<BR>><BR>>
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the
opportunity<BR>> to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams.
My wife, our First<BR>> Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither
of her parents had gone<BR>> to college, and they didn’t have much. But
they worked hard, and she<BR>> worked hard, so that she could go to the
best schools in this country.<BR>><BR>> Some of you might not have
those advantages. Maybe you don’t have adults<BR>> in your life who give
you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your<BR>> family has lost
their job, and there’s not enough money to go around.<BR>> Maybe you live
in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have<BR>> friends who are
pressuring you to do things you know aren’t right.<BR>><BR>> But at
the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look<BR>>
like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got
going<BR>> on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or
having a bad<BR>> attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your
teacher, or cutting<BR>> class, or dropping out of school. That’s no
excuse for not trying.<BR>><BR>> Where you are right now doesn’t have
to determine where you’ll end up. No<BR>> one’s written your destiny for
you. Here in America, you write your own<BR>> destiny. You make your own
future.<BR>><BR>> That’s what young people like you are doing every
day, all across America.<BR>><BR>> Young people like Jazmin Perez,
from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn’t speak<BR>> English when she first started
school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went<BR>> to college, and neither
of her parents had gone either. But she worked<BR>> hard, earned good
grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is<BR>> now in
graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr.<BR>>
Jazmin Perez.<BR>><BR>> I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los
Altos, California, who’s<BR>> fought brain cancer since he was three.
He’s endured all sorts of<BR>> treatments and surgeries, one of which
affected his memory, so it took him<BR>> much longer – hundreds of extra
hours – to do his schoolwork. But he never<BR>> fell behind, and he’s
headed to college this fall.<BR>><BR>> And then there’s Shantell
Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois.<BR>> Even when bouncing
from foster home to foster home in the toughest<BR>> neighborhoods, she
managed to get a job at a local health center; start a<BR>> program to
keep young people out of gangs; and she’s on track to graduate<BR>> high
school with honors and go on to college.<BR>><BR>> Jazmin, Andoni and
Shantell aren’t any different from any of you. They<BR>> faced challenges
in their lives just like you do. But they refused to give<BR>> up. They
chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals<BR>> for
themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.<BR>><BR>> That’s
why today, I’m calling on each of you to set your own goals for<BR>> your
education – and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can<BR>>
be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention
in<BR>> class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll
decide to<BR>> get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer
in your<BR>> community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who are
being teased<BR>> or bullied because of who they are or how they look,
because you believe,<BR>> like I do, that all kids deserve a safe
environment to study and learn.<BR>> Maybe you’ll decide to take better
care of yourself so you can be more<BR>> ready to learn. And along those
lines, I hope you’ll all wash your hands a<BR>> lot, and stay home from
school when you don’t feel well, so we can keep<BR>> people from getting
the flu this fall and winter.<BR>> Whatever you resolve to do, I want you
to commit to it. I want you to<BR>> really work at it.<BR>><BR>> I
know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich
and<BR>> successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success
is through<BR>> rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when
chances are, you’re<BR>> not going to be any of those
things.<BR>><BR>> But the truth is, being successful is hard. You
won’t love every subject<BR>> you study. You won’t click with every
teacher. Not every homework<BR>> assignment will seem completely relevant
to your life right this minute.<BR>> And you won’t necessarily succeed at
everything the first time you try.<BR>> That’s OK. Some of the most
successful people in the world are the ones<BR>> who’ve had the most
failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was<BR>> rejected twelve
times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was<BR>> cut from
his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games<BR>> and
missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I
have<BR>> failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why
I<BR>> succeed."<BR>><BR>> These people succeeded because they
understand that you can’t let your<BR>> failures define you – you have to
let them teach you. You have to let them<BR>> show you what to do
differently next time. If you get in trouble, that<BR>> doesn’t mean
you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to<BR>> behave. If
you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just<BR>> means
you need to spend more time studying.<BR>><BR>> No one’s born being
good at things, you become good at things through hard<BR>> work. You’re
not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport.<BR>> You don’t
hit every note the first time you sing a song. You’ve got to<BR>>
practice. It’s the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a
math<BR>> problem a few times before you get it right, or read something
a few times<BR>> before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper
before it’s good<BR>> enough to hand in.<BR>><BR>> Don’t be afraid
to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you<BR>> need it.
I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness,<BR>> it’s
a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you<BR>>
don’t know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult
you<BR>> trust – a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor –
and ask<BR>> them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.<BR>>
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and
you<BR>> feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up
on<BR>> yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on
your<BR>> country.<BR>><BR>> The story of America isn’t about
people who quit when things got tough.<BR>> It’s about people who kept
going, who tried harder, who loved their<BR>> country too much to do
anything less than their best.<BR>><BR>> It’s the story of students
who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went<BR>> on to wage a
revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you<BR>> sit 75
years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought<BR>>
for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you
sit<BR>> 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and
changed the way<BR>> we communicate with each other.<BR>><BR>> So
today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What<BR>>
problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What
will<BR>> a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred
years say<BR>> about what all of you did for this
country?<BR>><BR>> Your families, your teachers, and I are doing
everything we can to make<BR>> sure you have the education you need to
answer these questions. I’m<BR>> working hard to fix up your classrooms
and get you the books, equipment<BR>> and computers you need to learn.
But you’ve got to do your part too. So I<BR>> expect you to get serious
this year. I expect you to put your best effort<BR>> into everything you
do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t<BR>> let us down –
don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make<BR>> us all
proud. I know you can do it.<BR>><BR>> Thank you, God bless you, and
God bless America.<BR>><BR>>
--------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> " . . .
write your own destiny . . . make your own future . . . become<BR>> good
at things through hard work . . . you can't let your failures define<BR>>
you . . ."<BR>><BR>> It's all socialist mind-control. What's
next? Affordable health care?<BR>><BR>> Seeya round town,
comrades.<BR>><BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>><BR>>
"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
change<BR>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR>><BR>> -
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