Dear Leader to Address Students.....

[Excaliber]

Heck taking a month did wonders for me! I was able to cut WAY back on the medication after only a couple of weeks.

[cobra de capell]

This speech was a total waste of time for Obama, the students, and the schools. It became a lame speech after it was protested so vehemently by parents when they learned that Obama wanted the high schoolers to show and discuss how they could “help” Obama and his presidency. It was to be another campaign speech to young, impressionable students and no one was thought to object. Now that his poll numbers have tanked, he is trying to revive them by unduly influencing young, impressionable minds. When he got found out, he backpeddled and made the speech that parents make to their kids weekly. What a waste of everyone’s time. What a waste of the presidency.

[Roscoe]

And the question by the mush brained student? "When will you give us universal health care?" That was no setup...NOOOOOOOOOOO.....pathetic

Did anyone catch his Labor Day speech to the unions? Pathetic. It's like he's still campaigning. Telling everyone just what they want to hear.

Can't wait for tomorrow night. Stocking up on blood pressure meds....

Roscoe

[cobra de capell]

Roscoe - I'm with you, tomorrow nights event should be very entertaining.

[Roscoe]

I'm going to listen (maybe) via Mark Levin.

Roscoe

[Roscoe]

Update: Commenter Faraway counts up references to Obama and to country, and finds 55 self-references and four to the nation.

Update II: 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!

Update III: One reader asked me to do the same analysis of one of Ronald Reagan’s speech to schoolkids in 1986. Reagan only used “I” 19 times, or about a third of Obama’s self-references. However, Reagan also pushed his politics in another speech, at least briefly, to schoolkids in May 1986:

We got inflation down, interest rates down, and our economy created over one and a half million new jobs just last year alone. The poor are now increasingly able to dig themselves out of poverty, and that’s been good economic news.

The good news in defense is that our Armed Forces, which were suffering from neglect and low funding, have now made a comeback. Morale is up in the services, and the quality of our men and women in uniform has never been better — and I mean never. As a matter of fact, we have the highest percentage of high school graduates in uniform today than we’ve ever had in the history of our nation, even back when we had the compulsory draft. In addition, our nation has encouraged a more realistic sense of defense needs.

In foreign affairs we’ve kept our friends close and the lines of communication with our adversaries open. We’ve tried to give the world the sense that the United States has a coherent and logical foreign policy that reflects our respect for freedom and our opposition to tyranny.

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by Roscoe

Update II: 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!

I guess I'm not surprised that your word count missed the fact that he used the word "you" 107 times...almost more than all the above...referencing his audience of students.

But that's OK...the whole thing became a non-issue as predicted.

[bomelia]

Very GOOD point Ron. I, perhaps as much as any conservative was deeply concerned about the speech. Why? Why not! Our country has become extremely divided politically speaking. Ted Turner back in the 80's used a cartoon series to impose his views (perhaps Jane's) that the world was increasingly becoming dominated by capitalist environement haters. Never mind the fact that Ted was a capitialist himself whose successful business ventures impacted the world in exactly the same way he was advocating against. Children ARE the future. Indoctrination IS the key. Today, parents are more aware of this than they have ever been in the past. Caution is always warranted.

Mike