MANDATORY MARCUS
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE PARENTS WHO ARE UPSET ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S UPCOMING SPEECH TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN:
Dear Parents,
You're kidding right?
Don't get me wrong here...I'm not a fan of any of the "grow government" policies of this particular administration. I'd like them to cool it with all the industry "Czars"...the tax plans...the bailouts...the "stimulus spending" etc.
But honestly...you out there who are all worked up and bent out of shape because the President of the United States plans to deliver a back to school address that stresses the importance of education...you need to chill out.
Seems to me we need everybody stressing the importance of education; including teachers, parents, the business community and yes...even government. Like him or not, the President is a pretty good poster child for the kind of opportunities made available through a quality education.
Scenes like this one featuring a parent who actually starts crying (literally) because her child might hear what the President has to say; really makes me wonder whether any speech, given by anyone, at any point in history can prevent her child from growing up to be the same weak, close-minded, xenophobic stereotype depicted in this video.
You may not like his economics, his domestic policies, his foreign policies, his cabinet members, his hair style, his choice of beer, his favorite color, his favorite TV show or his White House garden...but he's still the President of the United States; which is an enormous accomplishment whether you like him or not.
Even if you buy into the theory that the President has a secret agenda to preach socialism to school kids; are you seriously of the opinion that a single speech given on a single day at school is going to trump the day in-day out 24/7/365 influence you have as a parent?
If your child comes home with questions about how the world really works because of what the President said at school...isn't that a good thing? Isn't that an opportunity to actually be a parent and have a conversation with your child about life?
What in the world are you going to do when your kid gets older and is introduced to ideas from folks they will be exposed to like Nietzsche, Marx, Darwin, Plato and yes...maybe even Obama? Will that be your queue to start burning some books to ensure your kid is as illiterate as you are acting?
Your idiotic antics make it hard for a person that actually has legitmate, logical differences with how government is running to make those arguments without being lumped into the crazy pool with all of you.
So do all the sane people a favor and grow up.
Love,
Mandatory Marcus
AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE PARENTS WHO ARE UPSET ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S UPCOMING SPEECH TO PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN:
Dear Parents,
You're kidding right?
Don't get me wrong here...I'm not a fan of any of the "grow government" policies of this particular administration. I'd like them to cool it with all the industry "Czars"...the tax plans...the bailouts...the "stimulus spending" etc.
But honestly...you out there who are all worked up and bent out of shape because the President of the United States plans to deliver a back to school address that stresses the importance of education...you need to chill out.
Seems to me we need everybody stressing the importance of education; including teachers, parents, the business community and yes...even government. Like him or not, the President is a pretty good poster child for the kind of opportunities made available through a quality education.
Scenes like this one featuring a parent who actually starts crying (literally) because her child might hear what the President has to say; really makes me wonder whether any speech, given by anyone, at any point in history can prevent her child from growing up to be the same weak, close-minded, xenophobic stereotype depicted in this video.
You may not like his economics, his domestic policies, his foreign policies, his cabinet members, his hair style, his choice of beer, his favorite color, his favorite TV show or his White House garden...but he's still the President of the United States; which is an enormous accomplishment whether you like him or not.
Even if you buy into the theory that the President has a secret agenda to preach socialism to school kids; are you seriously of the opinion that a single speech given on a single day at school is going to trump the day in-day out 24/7/365 influence you have as a parent?
If your child comes home with questions about how the world really works because of what the President said at school...isn't that a good thing? Isn't that an opportunity to actually be a parent and have a conversation with your child about life?
What in the world are you going to do when your kid gets older and is introduced to ideas from folks they will be exposed to like Nietzsche, Marx, Darwin, Plato and yes...maybe even Obama? Will that be your queue to start burning some books to ensure your kid is as illiterate as you are acting?
Your idiotic antics make it hard for a person that actually has legitmate, logical differences with how government is running to make those arguments without being lumped into the crazy pool with all of you.
So do all the sane people a favor and grow up.
Love,
Mandatory Marcus
2 comments:
Well done!!
GREAT LETTER!!!! It is beautifully written and well said. BRAVO!!!
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