Hook 'Em Young!

"Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last?"

Looks like The One is taking a page out of Big Tobacco's playbook...

After all, if the ignorant peasants are dragging their heels at your Inspired Plan To Save Humanity, well, just bypass them and go after the kids!

Take a gander at this:

Obama in the classroom: Letter to school principals for September 8

Recently, U. S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, sent a letter to school principals. He informed them of President Obama's intent to address school children on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, through a live broadcast.

Secretary Arne states, in part:

This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school. We encourage you to use this historic moment to help your students get focused and begin the school year strong. I encourage you, your teachers, and students to join me in watching the President deliver this address on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. It will be broadcast live on the White House website at12:00 noon eastern standard time.

In advance of this address, we would like to share the following resources: a menu of classroom activities for students in grades preK-6 and for students in grades 7-12. These are ideas developed by and for teachers to help engage students and stimulate discussion on the importance of education in their lives. We are also staging a student video contest on education. Details of the video contest will be available on our website in the coming weeks.

Yup, nothing like an injection of Politicially Correct Doctrine straight into those fertile young minds, so open to suggestion and free of that pesky partisan suspicion and logical thought...

"Skateboards... I've almost made them respectable! You see, I can't always get through to you, so I go for your son!" -- Joe Jackson - 'I'm The Man'

And finally...

"What is most significant about teens and smoking, however, is that, from all indications, smoking is an addiction that is typically initiated during the teenage years or not at all. For the great majority of smokers, this addiction begins before they are old enough to purchase tobacco lawfully . . . If youth access can be controlled effectively, and the decision whether to smoke can be delayed until adulthood, then, over time, smoking will be greatly reduced as a major addiction in our society."
-- "No Sale: Youth, Tobacco and Responsible Retailing," Working Group of State Attorneys General, December 1994.

Let's just reword that, Alinsky-style...

"What is most significant about teens and voting, however, is that, from all indications, Voting Democrat is an addiction that is typically initiated during the teenage years or not at all. For the great majority of voters, this addiction begins before they are old enough to make decisions rationally... If thought and reason can be controlled effectively, and the decision whether to question authority can be delayed until adulthood, then, over time, Conservatism will be greatly reduced as a major force in our society."