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Obama, Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader? Hint: Answer is Not Yes
President Obama spoke to a 6th grade class at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, VA on January 19th about his plans for more school grants:
WASHINGTON – President Obama said yesterday he is seeking more money for education in his budget to improve test scores and help students succeed in an increasingly competitive global economy.
“Offering our children an outstanding education is one of our most fundamental – perhaps our most fundamental – obligation as a country,’’ the president said at an elementary school in the Washington suburb of Falls Church, Va. “It will shape our future as a nation.’’
Obama said he’s proposing putting $1.35 billion in his fiscal 2011 budget for the Race to the Top program, in which states compete for grants. The plan rewards states that make the most progress in raising academic standards, boosting teacher quality, tracking student gains, and improving failing schools”
The kicker (besides the incompetency shown, once again, in his plans to spend another $1.35 Billion that we don’t have)? Lo and behold, his trusty teleprompter came with him.
That’s right. The Smartest Man Alive ™ can’t speak to elementary schoolchildren without a study aide. Math is hard and so is speaking extemporaneously, apparently, even to children.
Perhaps Obama should start trying to improve education by beginning in the White House. I suggest starting with a reading of The Wizard of Oz, Mr. President. One of the characters should remind you of yourself, which will, of course, hold your interest.
More photos here
P.S. And here I thought this Onion piece was satire. I think it was, perhaps, a documentary. A reminder:
Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner
h/t Bluegrass Pundit
Obama, Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader? Hint: Answer is Not Yes | NewsReal Blog
January 24th, 2010
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Betty
January 24th, 2010
Anyone can be smarter than a 6th grader when you are reading from a teleprompter. When obama was talking about grants…did he mention that the money would be coming from China?
Rightwingfeather
January 24th, 2010
My goodness, student loans at such a young age (that they WILL be paying back for the rest of their lives)!
Loretta in Indiana
January 24th, 2010
Soooo, if you enroll in the Race to the Top Program — you are a Race-ist. I get it now….
Race-ist: Good
Racist: Bad
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ed
January 24th, 2010
What’s with the podium and floor monitors? He’s in a classroom not Madison Sqaure Garden.
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Comrade Whoopie
January 24th, 2010
What’s with the SS bodyguard? You think one was enough? A 5th grader can be one mean hombre.
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Diann
January 24th, 2010
Do you think they flew in the reverb he’s so fond of?
Tim
January 24th, 2010
6th Graders can be tough. BO is probably scared to death to go into Falls Church without a full SS contingent – Liebstandarte Obama. Falls Church is a hotbed of liberalism.
Just call me Doc
January 24th, 2010
Whoopie, do you think that SS agent would take a bullit for O’dipshit?
Wyatt AARP
January 24th, 2010
Of course everyone realizes that in trying to measure academic performance, schools emphasize “teaching to the test” in an effort to look good. We have standardized achievement tests, and teachers are instructed to spend at least two weeks before the test “preparing” students for this exam (which doesn’t count towards a grade).
Any type of creative thinking is definitely not encouraged. As usual, the young are penalized, but administrators can look good.
Diann
January 24th, 2010
A few weeks ago, I got a survey from the Heritage Foundation (I’m a member). One of the questions was which cabinet departments would I like to see dismantled. I checked every single one they had listed. Top of the list: Department of Education. The biggest crock of sh*t to ooze its way into the Federal Government. The Dept of Ed was a hat-tip to the teachers’ unions, nothing more. It’s as integral to education as training wheels are to snakes.
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Mark
January 24th, 2010
obama probably uses the teleprompter to talk to his dog.
“It will shape our future as a nation.’’
especially if we let these socialits bastards set the corriculum
Cabby - AZ
January 24th, 2010
For the life of me I cannot understand why the masses
thought O was such a great orator. Even to this day
there are those (even conservatives) who think he is
such a brilliant speaker. What planet are they living on?
He has a certain cadence and tries to speak with confidence,
but other than that the content of his speeches is woefully
lacking in substance, not to mention the lies. He cannot
even talk to six-graders without a teleprompter? He is
absolutely a charlatan. When are the masses going to
wake up?
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Dan Ryan Galt
January 24th, 2010
Okay, let’s review: in 1970, we were spending $2,000.00 per student in today’s dollars.In 2006, we were spending $12,000.00 per student. Math and reading test scores are virtually the same today as they were in 1970 but drop-out rates have soared. So let’s throw more money at a problem that hasn’t been solved by throwing more money at it. Makes sense to me.
Well, at least the teachers and administrators will benefit from the increased funding.
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Wyatt AARP
January 24th, 2010
@Dan Ryan Galt: Your argument would make sense if there were students who could figure out how to make the comparisons.
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Brian
January 24th, 2010
Tim, you definitely have your Third Reich lingo down pat. You major in history, by any chance
IHaveNoIdea
January 24th, 2010
Waitaminute…O’DipShit had to use a teleprompter with a sixth grade class of stoodents? What planet does this guy zone in from everyday? Does anyone remember Dubya addressing the stoodents with a teleprompter?
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Matt
January 24th, 2010
IS THAT A CONSTRUCTION PAPER GREEN POT LEAF on the blackboard?
sorry about caps
Grackle
January 24th, 2010
I bet TOTUS follows him to the showers and tells him what to say to himself in the mirror while shaving.
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me.”
Grackle
January 24th, 2010
Is that Letterman holding the truck door open?
Wait…
TRUCK???
Grackle
January 24th, 2010
Don’t get me started on education. I’ll need a soap box.
Call me Lennie
January 24th, 2010
On a serious note, this picture is damning way beyond the poor power of our words to add or detract. It makes him look like a total joke. Get the conservonet cranked up and make this thing go viral!!
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TejasKat
January 24th, 2010
Yep! That’s them!!! The kids who beat the crap out of Barry when he told them they each owed the federal government $39,910 (now 39,925, up $15 from last night). It’s rumored he was at the school to collect.
http://bit.ly/6AwDH6
TejasKat
January 24th, 2010
He was probably thinking to himself:
“These little kiddies will be so impressed with me and my teleprompters. They’ll want to usurp the Office of the President — just like I did.”
TejasKat
January 24th, 2010
Yep! This confirms it: “President Obama said yesterday he is seeking more money for education …”
http://bit.ly/6QMLq8
cakes
January 25th, 2010
This reinforces the fact that a puppet can’t speak without a hand up it’s a$$.
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Betty
January 25th, 2010
Which voice did he use?
cakes
January 25th, 2010
On a side note: my son’s 4th grade class had school elections about 6 weeks ago. The guidelines for the speeches for those running for office were sent home and included the following: “Notes are allowed, but only in outline form. Purpose: to hone skills as a public speaker”
I kid you not. This is a public school, too.
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Grackle
January 25th, 2010
Speaking about speeches…
We all know Obama’s mechanics this week retooled his Snake in the Union Address to Congress, right?
Wouldn’t it be funny, if they forgot to tell TOTUS and the teleprompter continued on with the old speech?
He probably wouldn’t notice until it got to the part where…
“Make no mistake, Americans want health care as we all learned from the election results in Massachu…uh…”
Of course, he’s still claiming victory for himself in Massachusetts, so I’m not even sure he would stop there.
Loretta in Indiana
January 25th, 2010
Race to the Top?? Are you effing kidding me?? It’s more like a Race to the Bottom….
Just three weeks ago, the Berkeley School Board announced that it wants to eliminate science classes. Why — Because they are haaarrrddd……Actually the real reason is that very few black and Latino students sign up for science…..
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/berkeleys_unbearable_whiteness.html
So, instead of trying to raise the standards for these students and require some science before graduation, the Board would kowtow to the lowest common denominator and eliminate the classes altogether. Why not just cut to the chase and make school totally optional? The kids would love it!
The Race To the Top — not to be confused with The Race On the Top — the Asians, who know the value of education, especially the Hard Stuff….
Call me Lennie
January 25th, 2010
I’ll say it again this image is a propaganda nuke for our side. So much so, that I almost can’t believe it’s real.
It confirms everything we’ve said from the beginning about Obama being an empty suit of teleprompter reading sock pupppet. He’s doing the exact same thing for these sixth graders as he does for the State of the Union address. And here it lands in our lap just before Obama’s State of the Union address.
One thing that frustrates me when it comes to conservatives is that all too often the libos hans us a nuke on a silver platter and we do the equivalent of shooting it straight into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The task of everyone on the Conservonet should be to disseminate these images (there are other images just as damning) as widely as possible before Wednesday night.
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Diann
January 25th, 2010
@Lennie:
Totally agree. Add this moronic photo to the whole “Ellie Light” saga of astroturfing letters to the editor, and what we have here is a thermonuclear publicity blast set to detonate right before the empty suit gives yet another well worn, well rehearsed speech. And still the Dems say, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
rebecca
January 25th, 2010
While dumpster-diving at the White House this weekend, I found the following failed drafts of his SOTU speech:
My fellow Americans…
Now that this recession is over and unemployment has fallen to 6%…
Our bi-partisan approach to expanding health insurance coverage greatly benefitted by our live C-span….
I see that Chicago is working hard to gear up for the Olympics…
This administration will investigate the Climategate scam that nearly cost us our freedoms…
The abortive Cap and Trade bill opened the way to further exploration of our own country’s abundant resources…
The Obama family has decided to donate the entire Nobel peace prize cash award to those who are suffering in Haiti….
Welcome to Congress, Sen. Brown….
Bo is finally housebroken…
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Dan
January 25th, 2010
This is really just a handout to his friends in the cities. The last on the list for requirement to get this money is, you have to be a school district that is at a financial disadvantage. Also even if you receive this money–it is a one time shot-if you want a program after you pay for it.
My town’s school has about 150 students–receives about $20,000 total from the Feds per year.
I agree with Diann–dept of ed is a waste–at the state and fed level–all they do is impose useless rules and play gatekeeper to the funds.
matt
January 25th, 2010
I seem to remember a famous picture of GW Bush sitting in a classroom reading and speaking to kids about their futures.
No stage,no sound equiptment,No podium NO FREAKING TELEPROMPTER…
The reason I bring up this photo is that the left uses it to prove how stupid Bush really was because it was 9:00am 9/11/01 and Bush did not jump up screaming and run out of the room.
When Obama speaks,who the HELL are we actually listening to?
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Boobie the Rocket Dog
January 25th, 2010
The first link in Lori’s piece ( http://www.daylife.com/search?q=obama+Graham+falls+church ) leads to a great batch of photos. The most surprising thing about them is that they’re being circulated by the ASSOCIATED PRESS! I especially like the second one from the upper left showing Obama as the plastic figure I always thought he was.
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matt
January 25th, 2010
Boobie,that has GOT to be a cardboard cut out.
had enuf mike
January 25th, 2010
Obumbles needs a teleprompter to say:
“LET ME BE CLEAR”…
geez, after a million times, you would think he would have that down pat…
Boobie the Rocket Dog
January 25th, 2010
@matt- I was thinking of the inflatable, collapsible Obama.
In addition to the TelePrompters, why would anyone need a lectern in a sixth-grade class? Was Bush using a lectern during his talk when he was interrupted with the events of 9/11. I’m surprised they didn’t have the BULLETPROOF lectern there and the Obamalogo carpet on the floor underneath the ONE.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
January 25th, 2010
Perhaps with Obama, like his bro’s, it may not be about necessity, it might be about the bling.
Diann
January 25th, 2010
We’re a bunch of crock? Is that anything like a barrel of containers?
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Diann
January 25th, 2010
Hate to break it to you, Hines. It’s difficult to be insulted by someone whose words seem more the disjointed ramblings of someone off his meds.
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had enuf mike
January 25th, 2010
diann,
I was thinking the same thing…
I imagine that he spends half his days, arguing with himself in a mirror, and losing… and the other half, baying at the moon…
just ignore him…his world is crashing around his feet and he’s desperate to lash out at us…
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Tman 95
January 25th, 2010
Wow!!! I LOVE this site!!!
conservative cowgirl
January 25th, 2010
Did anyone look at his handshake in the other photos? He is doing that “fishy grip” handshake. (Shudder)
Dan Ryan Galt
January 25th, 2010
What the hell is “a bunch of crock”?
Well, if you guys are a bunch of crock, then I am proud to be part of that bunch, crock and all.
had enuf mike
January 25th, 2010
dan,
welcome to the crock party !!
next week, I’ll teach you the secret handshake !!
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Bertie
January 25th, 2010
Boys and girls, can you spell “megalomania”?
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January 25th, 2010
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Just call me Doc
January 25th, 2010
Mike…Just make sure our little friend isn’t watching when you teach Dan our secret handshake.
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Just call me Doc
January 25th, 2010
@Tman 95
If you think this is good now, wait till we take up cannibalism next week and BBQ trolls…
had enuff mike
January 25th, 2010
doc,
I’ll be sure that we are troll-free when I show Dan…
otherwise, hiney will sneak in and give all of us “thumbs down”….
Diann
January 25th, 2010
Hines:
Yes, that is true. And you, like your hero Obama will leave accomplishing NOTHING.
had enuff mike
January 25th, 2010
doc,
I think it safe to mention this…
Is next week ,your turn to be in charge of the underground bunker.??
Last week, when i WAS in charge of it, we where low on ammo, and cheese puffs.. be sure to bring these items next week !!
had enuff mike
January 25th, 2010
hines,
your a hundred (100) times more effective than your president is…. don’t let this go to your head though…
go ask mommy what 100 x ZERO is???
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uberVU - social comments
January 25th, 2010
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cakes
January 26th, 2010
UHG! HINES: again, please check your posts prior to submitting. Should be “pet. Too bad..” Space AND not ‘to’, but ‘too’.
I can fix your grammar but, as they say, I can’t fix stupid.
Just call me Doc
January 26th, 2010
Mike…Got it covered, I also stopped by San Antone and picked up a pallet of LoneStar!
Just call me Doc
January 26th, 2010
Cakes, maybe English is his second language…Ebonics his first.
had enuf mike
January 26th, 2010
hiney-whinny,
how would you know if I’m potty-trained properly…?
is your momma still training YOU !!