Posted by
Mike Bates on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:38:41 PM
So you think Barack Obama has done nothing yet but coddle
terrorists, kill unborn babies, and shove through Congress a spending
bill of gargantuan proportions? Well, think again, Buster. The
Associated Press reported in passing yesterday that The One also "has
done wonders to bring the office of the presidency to life for young
people."
Now precisely what those wonders are isn't detailed. We have to take the AP's word for it. Still, the piece titled "New e-book captures kids' hopes, dreams for Obama" is brimming with the hope and change we've come to expect in mainstream media accounts of Obama. The article begins:
NEW YORK (AP) — End war, forever. Make the planet greener. Please help my dad find work. Make it rain candy!
Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for
President Barack Obama in letters and drawings as part of a worldwide
project, with 150 chosen for a free e-book being released on Presidents
Day.
Most had tall orders for the new guy in the White House.
Anthony Pape, 10, of DuBois, Pa., offered: "I hope that we will have
no war ever again. I mean why are we fighting why can't we all be
friends."
Fellow 10-year-old Sasha Townsend of Soquel, Calif., had a similar request, and then some.
"I would appreciate it if you would try to make this a greener
planet and try to bring home the troops and end the war," the
fifth-grader wrote. "I am very luckey because I am not part of a
military family, but it saddens me to hear about all the people who die
in Iraque and know that somewhere In the world people are greiving over
a lost family member."
Seven-year-old Aaron Van Blerkom's letter was simpler — but no less problematic.
"Dear Mr. Obama," the Pasadena, Calif., first-grader began, "Please Make it rain candy!"
The "Dear Mr. President" project was a joint effort between the
National Education Association and kidthing.com, which is putting out
the book for use with its downloadable media player. A special hardcopy
edition of the book will be sent to the White House for Obama, who has
done wonders to bring the office of the presidency to life for young
people.
The letters were written in January amid Obama-mania at inauguration
time as schools scrambled to bus kids to special viewing events and
come up with computer screens and TVs for them to watch in classrooms
and auditoriums.
And then the ending paragraphs:
"Make fires and earthquakes not exist. Make no tornadoes or any of those things that break things."
An 11-year-old boy from Ohio drew himself in tears at the side of a
relative. His dream, he wrote, is that a "cure for cancer will be
found" with Obama in the White House, "Because it took my aunt to a
better place on father's day."
Another child drew Obama as the "new sunrise of America." One made
Earth and labeled it "Obamaland," and still another created the
president's face as half dark and half light skin tones with the words:
"United We Are One."
Sasha's drawing is an all-green globe. Her enthusiasm for Obama and
his ability to get the job done speaks volumes: "I just think he's
really, really awesome."
Could such unrealistic expectations have anything to do with the
fact that at inauguration time "schools scrambled to bus kids to
special viewing events and come up with computer screens and TVs for
them to watch in classrooms and auditoriums?" More accurately, the
story would have noted that members of the ultra liberal union calling
itself the National Education Association scrambled to make certain
their students could be indoctrinated in the wonderfulness of The One.
Where in the world would kids possibly get the notion that an Obama
administration could mean a cure for cancer, stopping fires and
earthquakes, a permanent end to war, a holiday for children around the
world, and a "new sunrise of America?"
Maybe they got those ideas from the same place the Associated Press
did when it reports as fact that Obama "has done wonders to bring the
office of the presidency to life for young people."
Let's not let facts get in the way, especially when reporting on
someone who is, as Sasha in the story maintains, "really, really
awesome." The mainstream media agree.