{"id":5350,"date":"2009-09-04T07:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2009-09-04T07:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T12:03:55","slug":"separation-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5350","title":{"rendered":"Separation Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being wired as they are – as hive creatures – liberals want the soothing balm of firm-but-benign authority inserted into every conceivable crevice of not only their own lives, but those of everyone around them.<\/p>\n

And so they want President Obama to address America’s grade-school kids next Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It’s not the dumbest idea this administration’s had, but\u00a0it’s right down there<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With just four days left until the first day of school for most students, school administrators spent Thursday fielding angry phone calls and e-mails. Some parents and community members are pressuring schools not to show the telecast, arguing that it’s an attempt to advance the president’s political agenda through the public schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s your Minnesota tax dollars in action:<\/p>\n

“Some parents are calling their superintendent and\u00a0saying they’re not going to have their kids go to school,” Education Minnesota President Tom Dooher said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. Dooher urged superintendents to show the broadcast anyway, for its educational value.<\/p>\n

“The education of our students shouldn’t become a partisan pawn for those who are trying to score political points against the president,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dooher – whose job is all about scoring political points (as the head of Minnesota’s most powerful, and most relentlessly DFL-leaning, union – is, of course, being disingenuous.\u00a0 As is the Strib, for not telling the less-politically-savyy reader that Dooher heads a union whose main function is to tell the Democratic Party when to “jump”, and off what.<\/p>\n

But it’s a moot point.\u00a0 This speech is illegal.<\/p>\n

We all know that for many liberals – even many of those that profess some sort of organized religious faith – that liberalism is a substitute for religion, eliciting much of the same zeal that it does among the faithful (and, among the fringe extreme, even some of the same creepy excess<\/a>).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This was accompanied by plenty of considered religious imagery during Obama’s campaign; his wife said his purpose was the save the nation’s soul; the point was not lost on a fawning media:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

So presenting Obama’s speech violates the Separation Clause just as surely as broadcasting the Pope or the Dalai Lama to our kids would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being wired as they are – as hive creatures – liberals want the soothing balm of firm-but-benign authority inserted into every conceivable crevice of not only their own lives, but those of everyone around them. And so they want President Obama to address America’s grade-school kids next Tuesday. It’s not the dumbest idea this administration’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}