Sep
07
The Speech
ByObama’s speech to our children was released today. After reading it I couldn’t imagine my kids (kindergarten and third grade) sitting through such a long, drawn out speech.
Ed Morrissey notes the White House’s handling of this address was not only a big political blunder, but also just another way for Dear Leader to promote himself.
I’ve run the speech through a word frequency counter and found the following results:
- 56 iterations of “I”
- 19 iterations of “school”
- 10 iterations of “education”
- 8 iterations of “responsibility”
- 7 iterations of “country”
- 5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers”
- 3 iterations of “nation”
In other words, Barack Obama referenced himself more than school, education, responsibility, country/nation, parents, and teachers combined. And to think that people accused Obama of self-promotion!
Popularity: 3% [?]
Honestly, this man is quite full of himself. It might be a good peptalk for students considering quitting, although they probably would have thrown up on the arrogance. But, if I had heard that speech as a student, I would have been insulted that he would think I needed twenty mintues of my time wasted to be told how important an education is and how I need to do my job to not waste his efforts in making sure our teachers and parents are doing what he wants. He probably understands that the parents that played by the rules are keeping their kids out of the speech… so he understands who his audience is and what they need to hear
He’s right though, the kids need to study up so that they can make our country more free and fair. It was free and fair… but if he has his way, we are going to need some geniuses to fix the messes he makes!
You can say that again!