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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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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tiedye@turbonet.com href="mailto:tiedye@turbonet.com">Dave</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 07, 2009 8:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] President
Obama's Socialist Mind-Control "Back to School" Speech Released</DIV>
<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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