Griper Blade: American Political Dialogue is Stuck on Stupid

The White House has released an advance copy of the President's address to schools today. This was a speech that right wing blowhards and their gullible followers have called an indoctrination of schoolchildren into the evil socialist mindset of the White House.

"As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," said on critic. "The idea that school children across our nation will be forced to watch the President justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other President, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power."

Was that Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh? No, that was a supposedly serious voice -- that of the Chair of the Florida Republican Party, Jim Greer. In a hysterical (and not in the "hysterically funny" sense of the word), Greer warned that Obama was going to shoot kids full of his Marxist brainwashing rays, turn them into little liberals, and push for healthcare reform.

Others picked up that panic. And it's apparently occurred to none of them that kids can't vote. He'd kind of be wasting his time here. But, for people who see American education being taken over by the evils of evolution and environmentalism, classrooms were already the enemy. This was just one more front... [CLICK TO READ FULL POST]