So the Obama speech to some of the Nation’s students went off as planned and I’m sure the numbers will be filtering in as to what schools watched it and what schools did not. There was a lot of controversy prior to the speech, regarding politics in school and the creation of a lesson plan that asked students initially what they could do “to help the president.”
The larger point, in my opinion, is the narcissistic feel of that lesson plan and the speech itself, as well as the pattern of all things being about Obama.
First off, Obama should have asked students what they could do to help their country, not their president. Can you imagine JFK saying “ask not what your president can do for you, but what you can do for your president?” The way it was initially worded made it seem like we were all loyal subjects to King Obama. Somewhere in our political universe the fact that politicians were elected to work for us and not the other way around has been lost. We need to get that back.
Secondly, why is everything ALWAYS about Obama? The majority of his speeches, regardless of topic, include numerous references to himself. Ed Morrissey ran his speech today through a word frequency counter and came up with the following analysis:
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!
It was all about him! Check it out tomorrow night in his speech to Congress. Play the Obama drinking game...take a drink anytime you hear him say “I.” Play at your own risk though and I would strongly recommend getting a designated driver.
