Singing to the Beloved Leader
The place: B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J.- a public school.
No, not North Korea. No, not China during the Cultural Revolution. No, not Cuba or Venezuela or Iraq under Saddam. And before anybody even says it, the laudability of the sentiments the chant and the song express otherwise are beside the point.
In democracies, we do not inculcate our school children into a cult of personality centered around the adoration of national leaders. And again, before anybody says a word, no honest Democrat will be able to deny that he or she would be just as disturbed by this as I am if public school kids were being taught to sing the praises of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush on the public dime during their presidencies.
This stuff has no place in the schools- and especially in public schools, where it's being financed by the money of taxpayers who may or may not have voted for President Obama, much less signed off on the indoctrination of their children into Barack Obama's creepy cult of personality.
No, not North Korea. No, not China during the Cultural Revolution. No, not Cuba or Venezuela or Iraq under Saddam. And before anybody even says it, the laudability of the sentiments the chant and the song express otherwise are beside the point.
In democracies, we do not inculcate our school children into a cult of personality centered around the adoration of national leaders. And again, before anybody says a word, no honest Democrat will be able to deny that he or she would be just as disturbed by this as I am if public school kids were being taught to sing the praises of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush on the public dime during their presidencies.
This stuff has no place in the schools- and especially in public schools, where it's being financed by the money of taxpayers who may or may not have voted for President Obama, much less signed off on the indoctrination of their children into Barack Obama's creepy cult of personality.
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