by David Safier
I refuse to summarize the garbage coming out of the Republican/right wing outrage machine about a group of elementary school children singing the praises of Obama. If you haven't read about it, this might not make any sense, but those are the breaks.
Here is a song that was sung by schoolchildren during the 2006 White House Easter Egg Roll (source: Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2006):
Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!
The words were sung by children from the Gulf region.
Why didn't the left rise up and scream at this obvious and insidious case of party indoctrination? Why didn't we send hate mail and make angry phone calls to the schools? Why were our threats not enough to have police positioned around the school out of fear that an outraged leftie might want to harm someone?
Oh, I remember. We don't pull stunts like that.
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I have never voted for any candidate for President named Bush. Even so I see some nuance between the recent Obama song and the one above. The above song mentions Congress, the Obama song do not.
Both are examples of government glorification, but the song above is quite a bit less partisan than the recent Obama song.
I imagine the reason the left didn’t object then is because the left is as big a cheerleader of government in general as the right.
I suppose these kids went to Ronald Reagan Elementary School.
The hypocrisy of the right is legion.
Great job, David. Why do some right-wingers seem to forget this all the time?