That lesson plan is like a universal lesson plan that could be applied to almost any speaker. How can we help the firefighter?  How can we help the policeman?  How can we help the president?

Typical responses from children would be we can help him by obeying laws and working hard at school and being kind to our neighbors.

It is not something that was written to elicit children to help him pass a health care bill.

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeez     I really don't believe any retraction is necessary.

The Washington Times reported Thursday that presidential aides acknowledged they helped the U.S. Education Department write the suggested assignments,...

   If the lesson plan was as generic as Sandee claims, then why would this have been in any way necessary?  Are we to assume that these presidential aids are just nice unbiased folks with no agenda, and a burning desire to educate the children?  Do you want a means-test for this whole idea?  Imagine the unbound hell that would have erupted on the Left, had Bush had the same idea.

gus.

Bush went into schools frequently.  Not on a tv monitor,  he went in person and who knows what the hell he said and who cares. He read to children.  I never heard anyone make a stink and reviewing the books before he read them.  I'm sure he made comments about being good kids and obeying the teachers and working hard etc and who gives a flyingfrapsickle about all that. 

I totally admit to be as critical of Bush as it is possible to be,  but I have absolutely no fear that when he went in to schools his purpose was to indoctrinate children with poltical ideas.

This whole indoctrination bit is just pure crap!!!

   Of course he did.  So did Clinton, so did every other president.  They also went to veteran's hospitals, and charity functions, and all kinds of other ceremonies.  It's what presidents do.  Which is *exactly* why there is such suspicion over why Obama isn't content to do pretty much the same thing.

gus.

Evelyn sees it Piglet.  It must be there.  God talks to Evelyn and only Evelyn.

They have the lessons plan suggested to schools and anyone can read it. I've read it and didn't see a thing about healthcare being mentioned.

That's because you are sane, piglet and evilyn is not.  Someone as paranoid as evilyn quite obviously is can't even listen to logic much less understand it.

Obama to "indoctrinate" kids on "socialist agenda?" Not so, says PolitiFact

Sep 3, 2009  

PoliticFact.com took Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer to task for his recent comments that President Obama's speech to students Tuesday  will "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda."

PoliticFact, the St. Petersburg Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning spin-checker, took a closer look at the claim, Obama's speech and accompanying lesson plans, and at past presidents' interactions with secondary students.

Its Truth-o-Meter said Greer's "pants" are "on fire."

The message is likely as harmless as it inititally seemed, it said:

We reviewed the study materials but didn't see any mention of controversial issues, let alone any attempt to indoctrinate students in socialism...

In ruling on Greer's statement, we wondered whether we should give him latitude for legitimate commentary on Obama's speech. But he crossed a line when he said that Obama intended to discuss "plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies" and other policy matters not germane to education. That is factually incorrect, and the party could not offer any support for the statement. For raising the specter of socialist ideology and indoctrination, the party takes its claim to an additional, absurd level. We rate the Republican Party of Florida's statement Pants on Fire!

Past presidents, including both Bushes, have intefaced with students giving similar messages, and Democrats weren't exactly innocent with their spin, either, PolitiFact found.

Read the full findings here.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_education_edblog/