Mmm mmm mmm…Indoctrination of Our Youth (Sing It With Me Now)

Some public school teachers have been seizing the opportunity to hail Barack Obama as the virtual second coming, something we haven’t seen for any president in recent memory, if ever.

ABCnews.com, among others, reported on the snappy, stubbornly catchy tune, “Mmm mmm mmm…Barack Hussein Obama,” filmed last school year in New Jersey.

BigHollywood.com has posted 11 new videos of young children singing the praises of Obama. In one video, the 5^th and 6^th graders call Obama, “a modern Martin Luther.” “He’s known around the world – come on, let’s celebrate.” Yippee.

In another, 5^th graders sing, “You know we gotta get Barack and all of his crew/ In the White House so they can prove that.” “Change that we can believe in” is what they’re referring to. No advocacy or indoctrination there…

Another, of kids ranging from pre-school to 3^rd grade: “Barack Obama there is none higher/ Other politicians should call me sire … We’re the baddest of the bad/ The cool of the cool/ I’m Barack/ I rock and rule.”

To me, it’s not disturbing that it’s for a Democrat. It’s disturbing that it’s the elevation of an elected official to a kind of mythical, god-like status – a place where no sitting president belongs.

The American left would have been outraged if such a thing had been happening in America’s schools to honor George W. Bush, and rightly so. And I would have been right there with them, demanding it be stopped.

John Adams, writing the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780, subscribed to the principle of “a government of laws and not of men.”

And Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense that, “the law is king.”

Laws rule, not men. But to the Obama administration and its allies, Adams and Paine are likely old fuddy-duddies from the slave-owning days. Oh, and by the way, didn’t you know America has “progressed” beyond their values?

Public school teachers owe it to children and society to teach the history of our country and its founders. They absolutely ought to teach respect for our presidents. But it’s a disservice to our country, our history, as well as our future, to further elevate a sitting president to a position of a living deity, leaving aside the sensible notion that it’s a position he hasn’t done anything to achieve.

Sadly, America’s teachers’ unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, have been completely silent. That’s likely because they agree with the sentiments displayed on the videos.

Remember, it was the NEA that embraced Congressional hearings when George H. W. Bush gave a speech to school children in 1991. According Byron York, writing in the Washington Examiner, the NEA claimed it “cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers’ money on a staged media event at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C. — while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters.”

But when Barack Obama wanted to speak for over an hour to elementary-aged kids (who can barely sit still for a Spiderman movie, let alone a droning adult), the unions were silent, if not on defense.

This problem is reaching pandemic level. How many other instances of clear indoctrination have there been that weren’t captured on film? And how many will it take before anything is done?

As I recall the other countries that put men above laws, I shudder to think of what may be the end result here in America, the great experiment of laws above men.