Brainwashing Propaganda, or Morality Lesson?

[--Pete]

Hi,

I find the thought of using his speeches as learning tools to be pure propaganda.

I've read Das Kapital and Mein Kampf as part of a liberal Catholic education. Only an insecure fool avoids studying those he does not agree with.

If Obama was really that interested in teaching moral lessons, they already teach history in school, so why not use that as a model?

Right. The morality of the Holocaust. That of the crusades. Genghis Kahn's treatment of Afghanistan. Six thousand rebellious slaves crucified along the Via Appia. The slaughter of the American natives. The enslavement of Africans. The opium wars. The Sepoy wars. The relocation of the kulaks. The inquisition. Christian torches illumination Nero's feasts. The slaughter of Jericho.

The only morality in history is that might makes right and the victors write the history.

What exactly is he trying to accomplish by doing this? Can you honestly sit there and tell me reviewing his speeches and what they mean is purely a move by his administration to get kids more 'involved' in school?

Trying to get people to think. And trying to make the next generation less apathetic, less ignorant, and less parochial than what laughingly passes for adults in this once great country.

--Pete