Another comment - about the "pledge" and about Van Jones:
Krauthammer's Take [NRO Staff]
From last night's Fox News All-Stars.
On the lesson plan issued by the Department of Education for use with Obama’s address to schoolchildren:
Look, this was never about content. We were not going to have the president urging eight-year-olds to come out in favor of high taxes as patriotic. And anything he said would be perfectly OK, it will be “tie your shoelaces and be nice to your neighbor.”
What is odd and creepy is the conception of government that underlay whoever it was in the Education Department — and it could have been a plural — to have a question [for the kids to write about]: "How can you help your president?"
That is not innocuous. Look, it is not going to do any real damage. We're not going to have people chanting poems about their Dear Leader. The question is that that kind of thing — about a relationship between the child and the president — is extremely odd. A child has a relationship with a parent or with a teacher, later a mentor or a coach, but not a president.
A child swears allegiance to the flag and the republic for which it stands, but not the man who happens to be sitting in the White House. That's the difference between a "popular democracy" (which is really a dictatorship) and a constitutional democracy.
And the idea that you would want a child to have any relationship with a president is odd. He shouldn't have any at all.
On Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones:
Well, I'm not terribly disturbed about the expletive he used about Republicans. I have said worse about Democrats. Hell, I've said worse about Republicans. I have said worse about cousins of mine.
On one side of the family, anyway.
And I'm not even disturbed that this guy is a communist. It is not the first time we had a communist in the U.S. government. And anyway, with the death of communism, it is a kind of a pathetic intellectual anachronism to remain a communist.
However, the stuff that we learned this afternoon is devastating. Here is a man who signed on to a petition demanding several investigations of the collaboration of the Bush administration with the worst massacre of Americans ever committed on American soil.
Now, that is beyond extremism and radicalism. That is psychotic paranoia. It is a malignant kind of politics. And you have to ask yourselves: In the White House, if you didn't know he is a "truther," then you have got to ask him to politely resign. And if you did [know], is that acceptable in the government of the United States? |
