Obama needs to be filtered

Yesterday, I wrote an op ed which appeared on FoxNews.com titled KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE CLASSROOM and expressed concern about the scheduled Presidential address to America's students.

Thanks to many like-minded Americans and a few rather nasty and graphic liberals, I realize I touched a nerve.

Though we saw the problematic lesson plan, we don't really know what Obama will say. We can anticipate that a President who will go to churches to seek support for his agenda -- particularly something like a government take-over of our health care system -- will not hesitate to use America's public school students.

We have already seen the White House and Dept of Education modify the accompanying materials for teachers.

Let's hope that on Sept 8, the President sticks to "study hard, stay in school, come to school on time and prepared" message.

But with a President who has Czars who have been self-proclaimed Marxists, anarchists and more, it is appropriate to be vigilant. Most American parents don't want our chlidren used to further an extremist agenda.

I hope schools decide to preview the speech -- it need not be delivered live as the President requests. Let's see what he has to say and hope that all the concern over his address has encouraged the President and his team to stick to an appropriate subject matter and don't divert from the teleprompter. We'll see, but considering what he has been proposing, this speech requires a filter.

Read my op ed here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/03/peggy-venable-obama-speech-school-children/

And I welcome the comments, even the mean-spirited ones. It reminds the rest of us what we are up against.

Peggy Venable

Seniors: Be Afraid, very afraid...

Senior Citizens Should Fear ObamaCare

One of our leading Texas Bloggers, Mr. Conservative written by Dr. Donald May of Lubbock, TX, writes all you need to know. He writes: It is the seniors that really fear the Obama health care plan. After working hard and saving for a good and comfortable retirement, senior citizens do not take kindly to the prospect of being denied life saving medications or procedures because some bureaucrats think they are not worth the money for the treatment. Read it here:
http://blogs.lubbockonline.com/conservative/2009/07/30/senior-citizens-are-especially-afraid-of-obamacare/

Obama: promises broken

With one stroke of his pen, Obama is set to break promises -- and break hearts. What a disappointment for Obama lovers everywhere. Americans for Prosperity's policy expert, Phil Kerpen, writes on Fox News Forum:

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/11/kerpen_obama_omnibus/

Yes, Obama is set to sign a notoriously pork-filled bill –the so-called “omnibus” or “porknibus” bill, stuffed with at least $7.7 billion of wasteful pork-barrel earmarks, including such vital national priorities as swine odor research in Iowa and Harry Reid’s beloved Las Vegas Natural History Museum.

The swine odor research may be needed in Washington, D.C., not just in Iowa.

Send Palin to debate Obama

Since Sen. McCain is headed back to DC to do the people's work (after all, that is a Senator's full-time job and we do have a financial crisis on our hands), why not have Gov. Palin offered up to debate Sen. Obama? It's clear Obama believes he can do his Senate job and campaign full-time, cerntainly he wouldn't blink an eye at debating a Governor on foreign policy.

Bring it on!