History Never Repeats (?)

Joe from the Como Park area writes:

Those videos of kids signing songs of praise and worship to Our Dear Leader have left a bunch of conservatives with their undies in a bundle.  Chill out, people.  Surely you remember the morning praises when you were a school child?

Right after the Pledge of Allegiance, we always sang “He Has A Secret Plan To Win The War” in honor of our President.  I especially loved the part where we shouted his name three times at the end:

Richard Milhous Nixon!
Richard Milhous Nixon!
Richard Milhous Nixon!  For the Future!  He’s the ONE!  YEAAAAAHHY!

Ah, good times.

Amazing, isn’t it?

18 thoughts on “History Never Repeats (?)

  1. Bubbasan, if you want a more recent example, last night’s Jon Stewart’s the Daily Show had similar footage, of elementary children praising George W. Bush, relating to Hurricane Katrina apparently.

    If there were ever an instance of undeserved praise, I think that wins some kind of prize. How surprising that no conservatives or republicans appear to have been concerned about inappropriate children indoctrination regarding our dear leader at the time.

  2. Well, largely because I’d never seen or heard anything of this purported footage at the time.

    Given the slaving attention the sorosphere paid to EVERYTHING related to W, I find it hard to believe that it just surfaced last night.

  3. I think the Obama coverage is a little bit more intense because the man has allowed (encouraged) a cult of personality around himself, Doggone. While the Bush song is wrong, it’s not quite as troubling because Bush didn’t take himself so seriously.

    And I do believe that praise of Obama is every bit as undeserved as praise of Bush during the Katrina debacle…..if you catch my drift. Obama is beating Carter’s record of incompetence AND Clinton’s record of dishonesty simultaneously, and it’s appearing that at certain spots (NEA campaigning for Obamacare, Rezko, Ayers, ACORN, Panthers, etc..) he’s leaving Nixon in the dust for outright criminality.

    Hat trick, Obama.

  4. Katrina debacle…

    Yeah, Nagin and Blanco had nothing to do with the debacle. It was all Boooshes fault!

  5. last night’s Jon Stewart’s the Daily Show

    Dognabbit – you do know it is a fake news show, right? Next thing we know you’ll be turning to Wikipeadea for facts, channeling your inner RatioRick.

  6. Barack Hussien Obama, Mmmm mmmm mmmmmm

    I’ve had the stuck in my head since first seeing the creepy video.

  7. I think there’s an important distinction to be drawn. It’s at least a little off for schoolchildren to be singing songs of praise — as opposed to of greeting — for visiting celebrities, and the more political power and higher the political stattion the celebrity has, the more off it is. The more the song of praise is a song of worship, the moreso, as well.

    But having schoolchildren sing songs of worship of a politician in absentia is, in and of itself, a whole ‘nother level of creepiness.

    By and large, the notion of folks praising Bush is less objectively objectionable than that of folks praising Obama. Bush never was a cult figure of worship, not even by his supporters; Obama, even from before he started running for the Presidency of the World and Light Bearer Unto Mankind, was never not a cult figure. (To be fair: there are many people who have supported Obama for any number of reasons, some of them at least arguably legitimate. I’m not saying that all people who voted for Obama did so out of religious fervor, or even necessarily most of them. But, some, sure.)

  8. justplaincrabby writes:
    “Katrina debacle…
    Yeah, Nagin and Blanco had nothing to do with the debacle. It was all Boooshes fault! ”

    I did not write that, nor should what I did write be taken to say that. However, the point is that the Bush part in the events was not a success, and yet it was Bush about whom the children were singing.

    Not Nagin, not Blanco. And there were no conservatives or republicans seen complaining about it, which makes the current fuss a bit self-serving and hypocritical.

    and he writes: “Dognabbit – you do know it is a fake news show, right? ”

    I don’t think of it as a news show at all. I don’t watch Comedy Central for serious news coverage.

    Alternatively, are you claiming that this footage was faked? Or that Steward does NOT run actual news footage upon which he then comments? That would seem to be the salient point here.

    Stewart is pretty clear about what is actual footage from news sources meriting commens, and what he is making up. That was evident among other instances in his Cramer expose triumph.

    I think I have demonstrated a pretty fair track record for going to the original material in documents and other sources, and for making an honest attempt to fairly look at information, respectfully, jpcrabby (a modification of your ID which is intended to be fun, not mean or insulting, so I hope it is taken that way).

  9. “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!”

    I don’t see any praising of anybody.

  10. “However, the point is that the Bush part in the events was not a success, “

    Please elaborate, Dog gone.

    You can advise and recommend an evacuation, but are you at fault if they don’t heed your warnings? Should federal martial law been invoked a week before landfall?

    MoN, I don’t see that to be such a big deal either; maybe we just don’t have the required BDS to see the proper “context”, eh.

  11. No conservatives complained about the Katrina thing? You must have wildly different acquaintances and friends than I, dog gone.

    I don’t defend the 2006 thing, either, but we do need to consider that it was done for someone without as much “self esteem” as possesses Dear Leader, and it was also not done in absentia, as Joel notes. It’s nowhere near as creepy as some of the devotion to Dear Leader that I’ve seen lately. Those who remember the 20th Century and what the numerous “dear leaders” with such a cult of personality actually did should be sobered.

  12. bubbasan Says:
    “September 30th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
    No conservatives complained about the Katrina thing?”

    I’m referring strictly to the song by school children with that comment; apologies for my imprecision.

  13. I did not write that

    You are so vain, you think I wrote this about you!

    Dognabibt, when I quote, I use italics and address the person (most of the time). You stop at nothing to waste bandwidth. Stop and smell the roses sometimes. Relax.

    Oh, and why should anyone sing songs about Nagin and Blanco? Other then burn their asses for their exemplary performance under pressure? Wanna link to the picture of evacuation schoolbuses?

  14. JPcrabby, if I misquoted you, it was not my intention. My bad for fragmenting my attention multitasking. Enjoy a rose with me, JPC!

    Frost will be ending their season soon enough.

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