Singing Obama's Praises

Students in a New Jersey elementary school celebrated this year’ Black History month in an unprecedented way. Elvira James’ second grade class had the internet and news stations abuzz with their rendition of a praise chorus to the great Obama.

A YouTube video was released showing students of the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey singing and cheering, in essence, hymns of praise to our president to the tune of church choruses. Even going as far as referring to him as the Alpha and Omega, which is one of the names of Christ.

Another is reminiscent of the familiar Sunday School tune “Jesus Loves the Little Children.”

“Red and yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama”

And the other to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”

Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!

Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country’s economy number one again!

Is it just me, or is this really weird? I mean no other presidents had songs written about them, even the well-liked ones. I have said before, sort of half-joking, that his supporters have projected a God complex on him, I guess this just shows the frightening reality of that impression.

It gets even worse. The children go on to sing, “He said we must be clear today/Equal work means equal pay.”

I don’t remember such indoctrination going on in my elementary school when Reagan was president, much less even knowing what saving the economy even meant at that age.

You can imagine the response from the parents, well, the Conservative ones anyway. “I’m stunned — I can’t believe it’s our school,” said Jim Pronchik, who told FOXNews.com his 8-year-old son Jimmy was one of the 18 students in the video. “We don’t want to praise this guy like he’s a god or an idol or a king or anything like that. That’s the wrong message to be sending.”

Now there are people like my dear liberal-ish boyfriend who say what’s the big deal? So they sang a little song about him?

The big deal is that these children are being fed propaganda before they have the means to filter through it. This is the reason that people were so against Obama speaking to the kids in the first place. That was the trick of many dictators. Indoctrinate your followers while they are young.

Robert Bowen, father of two children at Bernice Young Elementary said,
“I felt this was reminiscent of 1930’s Germany, and the indoctrination of children to worship their leader.”

Glenn Beck says in his column that this is a lot like the way North Korean children are taught to sing the praises of their “Dear Leader.” Any child who refuses to join in is punished. It is not that bad now, the kids are just frowned upon by teachers and classmates. He says that they are called into the principal’s office to say why it is that they aren’t singing. After which, it is “explained” to them why they should. This is just a hop, skip and a jump towards dictatorship. He also compares the similarities between the steps that Obama is taking to the baby steps Hitler took towards dictatorship.

I don’t want to be an alarmist, or a conspiracy theorist. I really do think this says more about Obama’s followers than it does about him. It just shows how loony they are, and how they blindly follow him. How they want so much to believe in him. That is what is so scary about it.

c. 2009