ObamaNation Indoctrination!

By Alexander Ott

The latest Obama administration faux pas was directed at our children’s young impressionable minds. The fury arises over a speech by Obama and subsequent lesson plan developed by the U.S. Department of Education for the event. Obama is to speak at an Arlington, VA elementary school and televise the speech nationwide to school children. Previous Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush gave similar speeches, but the problem comes on the heels of the Obama administration attempting to seize more and more power and control over everyday Americans. The speech is not the real issue, but the subject and content to such an impressionable audience is the nature of the problem. The lesson plan developed by the U.S. Department of Education along with a video of famous actors telling children to “pledge” to helping Obama, and “serve” him has hit a raw nerve and conjures up memories of oaths being made by the Hitler Youth (HJ) to Hitler. It is still very creepy how much this administration has parallels to Nazi Germany. The lesson plan directed students to read a book on President Obama, and asked them to write what they could do to help him. This is direct indoctrination of the youth, and there is no doubt about it. If the U.S. Department of Education decided to have students read and write about a President of their choice then that would be appropriate, but requiring specific books and writing to the current president in a servitude role is inappropriate.

As social studies teachers, we are trained not to let politics be a force in teaching students. The lessons developed should be political neutral or have a balance. The primary responsibilities of teachers are for students to learn in a safe environment, and to facilitate in guiding young children into becoming productive and active citizens. This is accomplished by allowing student to make their own decisions and develop critical thinking skills, by teachers as facilitators not indoctrinators to a particular viewpoint. The challenge for teachers is walking the fine line between facilitator and indoctrinator.
Despite what the critics on both sides of the isle say, the President of the United States should give an annual fall speech at the start of the school year. This should be a politic free speech in which the President wishes the school children well, praises them for their hard work ahead, tells them to make good choices, and be wary of the pitfalls of complacency. He should use his experience to motivate students for the year ahead. Tell a story when he was there age and how he persevered through tough times. The role model being created is not one of an ideological leader, but of someone who has beaten the odds and achieved their personal goals.

Oh, and by the way Mr. President, good luck, school children are the toughest critics and ask more questions than you could possibly be prepared to answer!

Obama & Hitler: The Scary Similarities

By Alexander Ott M.Ed.

America is under attack. The fundamental fabric of what America and Americans stand for is being systematically and methodically changed by the Obama administration and far left liberal Democrats. A government hasn’t seen these kind of changes since National Socialism reared its ugly denigrating head in pre-war Germany in the 1940s. The purpose of this blog post is for Americans to be careful and mindful of the slippery slope when government takes a larger role in our everyday lives. While America is not a dictatorship, the parallels to Nazi Germany are uncanny. Here are some of the comparisons that should answer the question, is history repeating itself?

• When Hitler came to power in 1933, he was elected primarily by the middle class, democratically elected in a deep economic recession. Obama primarily elected by the middle class, democratically elected in a deep economic recession.

• Hitler promised to fundamentally remake German society. Obama promised to fundamentally change and remake American society.

• Hitler used his public speaking rhetoric to convince the electorate that he was the change agent. Obama used his public speaking rhetoric to convince the electorate that he was the agent of change.

• Hitler uses his stagecraft in huge stadiums to hypnotically feed the people en mass his ideas of what Germany will look like under Hitler. Obama uses his charisma in speeches in huge stadiums to feed his visions of America en mass. Hitler watches us watching him. Obama watches us watching him.

• Hitler writes an autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), foretelling his vision of Germany and what he is going to do as Germany’s leader. Obama writes two autobiographies, Dreams of My Father, and Audacity of Hope, in which his vision of America is clearly spelled out as what he will do as President.

• Hitler was accused later of concealing his birth certificate and his possible Jewish origins. Obama is accused of concealing his birth certificate and his Muslim origins.

• Hitler had many radicals who were his advisors and organizers (Goebbels, Himmler, Goering, Hess, Röhm, etc) Obama has many radicals who are his advisors and organizers (Rahm Emanuel, Dr. E. Emanuel, David Axelrod,etc.

• Hitler and the Nazi movement utilized a community organizing strategy on a national level to push policy objectives and intimidate dissenters. Obama uses a community organizing strategy on a national level to push policy objectives and intimidate dissenters.

• Hitler and Himmler’s SS strategy was to have Germans spy on everyday Germans. Obama has used the Internet and email to flush out “fishy” dissenters on his policies in order to spy on everyday Americans.

• Hitler and Himmler used internment camps to quell civil unrest against Nazi ideology and policies. Obama and Congress have introduced legislation HR 465 which would establish six national emergency centers to prepare for civil unrest for a social and/or economic crisis as determined by Homeland Security and Obama.

• Hitler said “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”, and the Hitler Youth movement provided a community organizing structure on a grand scale for Nazi ideology. Obama has used his appeal to the youth in order to seduce the gullible and unwary. The youth most often falls into this category, not yet “broken in” to the number one rule in electing a ruler: watch their actions, not their lips.

• Hitler paraphrase Joseph Goebbels in saying ““Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” Obama uses his rhetoric to make the populace and world audiences believe that America is bad and needs change. Obama in the current debate on healthcare keeps telling the American public people are lying about the proposals. He is the one lying, he's making it simple, he keeps saying it, and he is counting that everyone will believe him.

• Hitler’s focus on a state ideology forcing the populace into a new state religion with its god-like figurehead, Adolf Hitler. Obama’s statements to a world-wide audience that America is no longer a “Christian Nation” replaces religion with a secular state to become the object of the new religion of government and its leader Obama as its figurehead.

• Hitler’s racial policies eliminated children born as undesirables. Obama opposed a bill (Induced Infant Liability Act) as an Illinois state senator that would protect infants who were alive after a failed abortion from being “aborted” after birth. Even NARAL, an abortion rights group did not oppose it and both abortion rights and anti-abortion critics believed the legislation was not unfair.

• Hitler forced National Socialism on the German people as a fundamental change to German society as necessary in an economic crisis. Obama has forced socialistic fundamental changes to American society as necessary in an economic crisis.

• Hitler was of mixed racial heritage and distorted his racial heritage to control public opinion. Obama is of mixed racial heritage, but has distorted what his racial heritage is for public opinion. Obama is 50% Caucasian, 43.75% Arab, and 6.25% Black. According to federal law, an American citizen must be at least 1/8th, or 12.5% of a particular race to be considered a member of that race. Obama meets the criteria easily to be considered an Arab American but not African American. Kenyan records for Obama’s father indicate that he was classified as Arab-African and not African. The area from where Obama’s father is from is significantly Arab.

• Hitler was a vegetarian, pro-abortion, an advocate for strict gun control, desirous of universal health care, and continually extolling the virtues of state control. Obama is pro-abortion, sympathetic to groups such as vegetarians, an advocate for strict gun control, desirous of universal health care, and continually extolling the virtues of state (government) control. For both Hitler and Obama, government is the answer, and more of it, and not the problem.

• Hitler knew that by seizing government control in a time of crisis was crucial to gaining power. Obama and his advisor (Rahm Emanuel) believe that only during a crisis (economic) can fundamental change occur. It’s in Emanuel’s book The Plan: Big Ideas for America.

• Hitler bargained with religious leaders to quell opposition to sell his moral policies when he needed them. Obama is using religious leaders to promote policies for healthcare as a moral obligation, yet believes religion should stay out of the pro-choice, pro-abortion policies.

• Hitler used propaganda through the government to increase support for policies and highlight dissenters as communists, Jewish sympathizers, and Jews as vermin, and dissenters as un-German. Obama’s administration and liberal counter-parts have used propaganda through the government calling dissenters; astroturf, Nazis, Right-Wing extremists, mobs, and un-American.

• Hitler intimidated his rivals with face to face meetings, letters, media propaganda, radio and print to sell Nazi ideology and policies. Obama and Congress are using face-to-face meetings, letters to business leaders, and industry takeovers and intimidation to sell socialist policies.

• Hitler gave away free radios with a preset number of radio stations favorable to the government to control information. Obama and Congress want to enact the fairness doctrine to control information in print, television, and talk radio.

• Hitler believed that the state should control the social aspects of society and make choices on behalf of the good of society since only the government can be the objective arbiter. Obama believes only government (the state) should make the moral and social decisions for society as government as the arbiter (the public option).

I have to say that the major difference between Hitler and Obama is that Hitler was a stringent capitalist and detested the Marxist or state control of industry. Obama believes that government should control the evils of capitalism, greed.

While these are some of the more important similarities, I do think that Americans are now speaking out against Obama and his policy objectives. The electorate is now aware and as one town hall American said the "Sleeping Giant is now awake" . We have a choice and it is not to have history repeat itself.

Do not be silent. Be vigilant and speak softly and carry a big stick. Use your public voice, as only Americans have done for over 200 years. Be as American as you can be, and use facts to back up your arguments. Violence is not the answer. Be mindful and respectful of opinions you don’t agree with, but most of all, “We the People” will be heard.

Just Words

Just Words
By Alexander Ott

In the education field language is everything. It is how we learn, live, and grow as individuals, and how we become productive citizens. Education policies are based on law, but it is the interpretation of those laws which have considerable concerns. The Congress makes the laws that America and Americans live by each day, but it is the words or lack of words in those laws that create a ground swell of problems associated with interpretation.

Let’s take No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for instance. The language in the law says that every child is entitled to a “free and appropriate education”. What does that mean? I can figure out the “free” part which is not exactly “free” (we pay taxes for this) but what about “appropriate”? Appropriate to whom or what? What do you compare it too? Or after you are done? These questions have baffled state agencies, districts, and administrators and are interpreted by differently by administrators, teachers, students, and parents across the spectrum. It is the ambiguous language that lawmakers are famous for and the courts, especially, the Supreme Court is famous for figuring it out. But, that takes years.
Sometimes it is what is left out that is most important. We all remember that Congress did not put any strings on the TARP funds lent to the banks until the U.S. Treasury department decided ex-post-facto, that banks would not be able to give bonuses in large amounts to their employees which were contractual before the TARP funds were received by the banks.

These few examples are enough to give us great concern about the new healthcare law making its way through Congress. There is no mention of abortion, so it’s covered. Language in the bill mentions “mandatory end-of-life counseling”, what does that mean? Are we going to counsel people on how to end their life, or how to prepare for it? The bill doesn’t mention rationing by name, but says that a panel will make decisions for people’s healthcare. Does that mean “death panels” which would determine who lives and who dies based upon resources? It is what the bill doesn’t rule out, or specify which is of great concern.

Obama has gone on record during the campaign saying a single payer system is what he wants us to move towards, yet he says he is not for a single payer system? America needs to listen to the meaning behind his words and the ulterior motives the administration has towards their focus of fundamental change. Obama never said it better than… just words.

The NEW Mob

The New Mob
By Alexander Ott

American history tells us much about who we are as Americans. “Taxation without Representation” was the cry before the American Revolution and from angry mobs in the northern colonies, yet today the very government we have representing us are now calling everyday Americans, the mob. Are the Democrats in power so afraid of losing that power that they have resulted in directing a campaign to dispel what is really going on? Do they not remember their own history? The mob started the American Revolution! A ground swell of dissent and patriotism of what is a truly, the most, American thing we do.

History does repeat itself and manifests in many ways albeit through new situations. We all remember that feeling of unity on 9/11, while we mourned the selfless death of Americans going about their everyday life. Then those feelings of patriotism were replaced by a war weary nation, and a political party hell bent on taking down a president, and his constitutional duty to protect America. The war in Iraq has been won, yet we are not celebrating our triumph. Instead, America turned its back on our Constitution and elected a president who told us in no uncertain terms how he would remake America if we just had listened. We sat and listened in awe over Obama’s rhetoric and wanted to believe. We wanted to believe that this man could heal our great nation. We wanted to believe that change meant just that, a new direction for our country. Instead what we have seen is a fundamental change to our uniquely American way of life in every aspect possible. Obama told us this was coming, he said it, plainly and often, yet we chose not to listen only to the rhetoric of hope and change. Unfortunately, for Obama and the Democrats, America isn’t listening to that rhetoric of hope and change anymore! The “mob” is now speaking, and with a big stick.

America is awakening. We are realizing what our social studies school teachers taught us was correct all along, that active citizens make up the republic for which we stand. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi have called us un-American, the White House wants us to report people who are speaking against his healthcare bill. Where is the ACLU? I thought they were supposed to defend our civil liberties? Of course, it is only when it fits their idea, and Obama’s idea of what those liberties are. Obama is from the same America hating crowd. Again, this was all evident in the election, but not many Americans were paying attention. We hear you now, President Obama, and I don’t think you are going to like what we are saying. We want our country back. We want you to listen to the words of the Founding Fathers. We want you to uphold the Constitution. We want you to let us speak freely without intimidation. We want government to assist us when we are down, and not be the crutch for the rest of our lives.

So, hear us now. The MOB is speaking.

And, that’s all I have to say about that!

Welcome Back!

It’s been a long time, actually a year, since I have written an article for Asses & Elephants. I guess the election of our new president kept me in depression for a while, but the changes I feared Obama would push through are coming to fruition and I must do my part to exercise my first amendment rights until the fight against tyranny and abusive government returns us to a government, for the people, and by the people and so it may never perish from the earth.

Unfit for Executive Command!

The verdict is in... Obama is unfit for command, or maybe it is that his judgment is unfit to command? I'm sure the DNC would want to separate his mind from his body in order to win in November. Obama's performance in front of Rick Warren's audience at Saddleback left most people who watched convinced he is inexperienced, and does not have what it takes to be president at this time and place in our history.

Obama was asked the same tough issue oriented questions as McCain, and did not give a straight answer. Obama postured himself as a typical lawyer would do, not allowing himself to take a solid stance on anything insofar to reposition himself later as the situation sees fit.

One notable outtake from the Saddleback event, Obama's leftist viewpoint really shines. Obama was asked which Supreme Court Justice would have not nominated, his answer: "the black one!" His reasoning is that Clarence Thomas was too inexperienced for the job! So, if you follow that judgmental reasoning, Obama believes that experience matters, so why is he running for President? He has practically no government experience, especially in the Federal Government realm.

At the DNC, the Vice Presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, tried in vain to explain Obama's legislative experience and stretched the truth or lack thereof nicely, but to most Americans it simply wasn't enough. Bill Clinton spoke of foreign policy, now that's surely a winner. From a man who had the terrorist Arafat at the White House, and lobbed a few missiles at Bin Laden and didn't get him. Oh, and what about the deal to hand over Bin Laden, oops missed that one. It was also Bill Clinton's Justice Department and Jamie Gorelick who put up "the wall" between the FBI and the CIA for information sharing that had a direct impact on possibly catching the 9/11 plotters before 9/11 materialized. If it wasn't for NATO, the Balkin’s War would have been a mess as well, so much for Bill's foreign policy experience. At a time of heightened Islamic terrorism, we cannot afford a Democratic President who would treat terrorism as a law enforcement act as the Clinton administration did in the 1990s.

Now back to Obama.... HE HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE! It's not even a blip on the radar. He statements on foreign policy leave American's wondering if they need to move away from the big cities, and head for hills clinging to their guns and religion for protection. This has become a dangerous world since the disintegration of the Soviet Union who we knew was our enemy and most important where they were. Our new enemy, is hard to find, and fractured into so many fundamentalist Islamic groups that only a clear and concise Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, and NSA effort can prevent attacks on our homeland.

Some of you may dislike or hate President Bush, and this hatred repeated over and over again has been spewing out of his rivals’ mouths for almost 8 long years, but Iraq is not his legacy. It will be delegated to a footnote of history. President Bush's biggest accomplishment has been that he kept this country safe from terrorism. It was his reorganization of the Federal departments to combat terrorism and the numerous policy initiatives and changes that have thwarted many attempts to attack our great nation. Bush’s legacy of keeping us safer after 9/11 is for certain, but taking a chance for CHANGE may lead us not into temptation but deliver us to evil.

And, that's all I have to say about that!

McCain's Millions vs. Obama's Pocket Change?

It is no news that a politician is rich. Let's face it, almost all of them are, and the ones that are not are just new to the political game we all call democracy. Let's not fool ourselves in thinking that McCain is not a rich man, and Obama is the poor black man from the south side of Chicago making it in the big world of politics. It's simply not true. Obama has painted himself as this black stereotypical male, rising from the ghetto and becoming a presidential candidate. Hogwash!

Doesn't Obama have foreign policy experience because he has lived abroad? He said so. How many of you have lived abroad? How many Americans have lived abroad? Wouldn't you like the opportunity to do so? Obama is not the poor black kid from Jenny's block. Him and his wife are rich, and have used the political system to grow that wealth. That's how they received a piece of land from a developer, Tony Resco, now a convict! They also received a better than average loan for their house, and later Resco received tax payer incentives totaling 16 million! Now that's how politicians get rich. They use tax payers money to assist them in saving money, and have no problems doing it. Obama has also received millions from his two book deal. which is honest money, although he wouldn't be able to write them if he wasn't a politician who was part of the Chicago, Mayor Daley political machine. The same machine that has been operating since Capone's time. Remember it was Daley's father who helped JFK get elected in 1960 and beat Nixon by the slimest of margins. Obama has built his fortune much like Capone did, on the political paybacks associated with Chicago politics.

McCain on the other hand has made an honest living, and rose up through the ranks of the military and politics. His father became an admiral but that certainly didn't give McCain any special treatment as a POW, in fact, it probably made it worse. His political career has been from the bottom up, as a Representative and then a Senator from Arizona. McCain's second marriage to his current wife, Cynthia has certainly boosted his economic fortune since she is the heir to the Coors Beer fortune. Now that's how you do it, marry into it. At least it's not crooked. So what if they own multiple homes worth millions, that's what rich people do. No one ever said JFK wasn't rich and didn't own property. Wasn't it the media who crowned JFK and Jacqueline America's first royalty?

What we should take away from all of this money talk is that McCain is using the Federal system for campaigns and Obama is not! This really shows you who is rich and where his donations are coming from. The final thing to remember in a campaign is not who has the most money wins, and certainly it is usually the one with the biggest mouth who has something to hide.

And, that's all I have to say about that!