FLASHBACK: Right-wingers hate it when any kids sing the praise of Obama
September 24, 2009 2:24 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Today's hysterics are nothing new.
Last year during the campaign, a YouTube clip was posted showing school-aged children supporting Obama's campaign via song.
The unhinged response back then? "Hitler Youth." Naturally.
Let's declare ALL of October OBAMA month. Instead of kids saying the pledge or prayer or whatever they MUST speak some praise to Obama. Take some N Korean script.
That should do the trick. Then just sit back with our popcorn and watch the fireworks.
Using Children for a Political attack would in the past be an Obscenity.
But leave it to Fox News to make Little Children fair Game.
In their Zeal to destroy our President they have found a way to Exceed their Own Shame.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must all lend a hand
To make this Country strong again
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we all must take a stance
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black, or white,
All are equal in his sight
Hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes, hmm, hmm, hmm
Barack Hussein Obama
Dear Kim
I wonder if kids had sung Hmm Hmm Bush if the response would be the same? Somehow I think...NO!
Kids get excited (most people do too) at being introduced to the President whether they agree politically with him or not. Kids were not "being used" here. They were singing a song in praise of praiseworthy actions by the current President. It would have been fine if they had done the same when George Bush was in office.
The Dems don't have a history of idolizing their Presidents. The right does. Reagan got an airport named after him before he was even dead. Because the right is so comfortable with that kind of behavior, they claim that we see Obama as our messiah. We don't. We never did.
The Dems don't have a history of thinking that everything said about the current President must be positive. The ones on the right, not so much. How many times have legit criticisms of the Bush Administration been alleged to be unpatriotic?
You ain't got squat.
Really?
You must be VERY young because I seem to remember LOTS of idolizing Mr's Franklin and Kennedy.
Sorry lad, but you don't remember squat.
So no, it's you who apparently doesn't remember squat.
The Kennedy v/s Nixon race of 1960 was the closest contested presidential race since the early twentieth century and the closest electoral victory up to that time.
Less time getting your history lessons off VH1 flashbacks and more time in the library kid. ;)
Like I said, he was revered by both parties, mostly because he was killed in office in such a dramatic way.
Dems don't have a history of idolizing Democratic Presidents. Republicans, on the other hand, have some very recent history of doing just that with George Bush while he was in office, complaining that dissent was unpatriotic. They did it it with Reagan, naming an airport after him before he was even dead, which was unprecedented before that time. Reagan is a saint who could do no wrong to most Republicans. There is not an analogous Democrat from our perspective.
You ain't got diddlysquat compared to me, so stop digging your hole deeper and deeper, nitwit.
Supporting a Democratic president is akin to Nazis, socialists and communists.
This is pretty simple, really ...
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977825299
The tune children sang for past President and First Lady Laura Bush:
Lyrics
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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!
Versus the undeniable facts in the songs that the kids sang about Obama.