Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama
Back to School Event
Arlington, Virginia
September 8, 2009
"...if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country."
"Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country."
"The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best."
"What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?"
"So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down."
---Barack Obama
There's no such thing as "county" anymore; there are only corporations who run the country. Corporate and state power have merged into one entity. Obama wants you to pledge your love and allegiance to corporate power. By country, Obama means all his banking buddies and Wall Street thugs that he appointed to fix the economy -- the same people who gambled away taxpayer money and created this mess. Was Obama thinking of his country when he continued the policy of privatizing profits and socializing losses? "Today, the Orwellian mantra of the Keynesians is DEBT IS WEALTH." Governments and central banks are the greatest and most powerful crime syndicate in the world."
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
A commenter writes:
While the speech may seem harmless and overly generalized on the face of it, it is filled with subtleties that can not be ignored.
"What is expected of you"....
"I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox."
"We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country."
Seriously, who does this guy think he is? [The] ...text of the speech is filled with self aggrandizing hyperbole. This speech reeks of "I am your Dear Leader, look at what I have done, and you better do as demanded, or else you fail me."
Sorry Obama, you have no right, nor calling, to be the "father figure" to an entire generation of kids. And you certainly do not have the right to dictate to my kid what is expected of her. That is MY job.
"Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress." -- Gore Vidal
Brings to mind Orwell's chilling account of indoctrination in his book 1984:
"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it... All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children." - George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 2
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