Brainwashing Propaganda, or Morality Lesson?

[Jester]

@Jester: Well, according to the article, they are told:
As someone who does not see eye-to-eye on Obama's thoughts or ideologies, I find the thought of using his speeches as learning tools to be pure propaganda. If Obama was really that interested in teaching moral lessons, they already teach history in school, so why not use that as a model? 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? But hell, what does it matter anyways if @majority is right and FoxNews is lying? Then this is all a shell game done for our entertainment.

He's delivering a speech telling the kids to work hard, don't do drugs, and stay in school. What is he trying to accomplish? Well, golly gosh, maybe to get kids to work hard, not do drugs, and stay in school? It's not like presidents have been shy about saying this kind of thing before.

But, I guess, if you listen to an outlet that regularly implies that Obama is building a paramilitary force composed of ACORN and Americorps who will take the guns of patriots away so they can't resist his Nazi-Commie-Islamofascist coup d'etat, then I suppose this all makes sense and seems very ominous.

Me, I think it's trivial, innocuous, and of basically zero consequence.

Also, as someone with a foot in the door of the history world, let me tell you that if you're trying to use history to teach morality, you're in for a wild ride.

-Jester