...it is not too far removed from this pledge to Barack Obama (at
least in tone)...
...which raises the question, Why would any American pledge
allegiance, or in this case "service," to any president?
Americans simply do not do that.
You have to wonder if the lemming-like Hollywood airheads in this
MySpace presidential
pledge video in the middle of the three videos above ever
watched a movie about Nazis, who had to pledge unquestioning
obedience to their leader.
Many of the pledges of community service they make in the
MySpace
video are innocent, trite, or platitudinous, but there
are a few good ones.
One pledge maker in particular seems to reject the
multiculturalist nonsense peddled by the left. Football
player Michael Strahan admirably pledges "to consider myself
an American, not an African-American," but despite the presence
of this proud non-hyphenated American the video soon
gets creepy with the on-screen personalities reciting a kind
of loyalty oath to the president of the United States.
At the end of the MySpace video the
beautiful hive-mind people say in unison, "I pledge to be a
servant to our president and all mankind because together we can,
together we are, and together we will be the change that we
seek."
Of the pledge video, Noel Sheppard of
NewsBusters writes, "I don't know about you, but I
thought our elected officials were supposed to serve us. Isn't a
form of government wherein citizens serve their leaders anything
BUT a democracy?"
Incidentally, I have to wonder why the
paramilitary Obama Youth shown in a separate video above are not
attending healthcare townhall meetings? They do a better job of
explaining ObamaCare than President Obama does.
And by the way, James
Joyner put up a silly, snotty blog post yesterday
in which he mocked Obama skeptics.
Obviously President Obama won't be able to use a Jedi mind trick
to cast a spell on the nation's children but the more we learn
about him the more we learn to be suspicious of his motives. He's
the most overexposed president in the history of the Republic. He
doesn't need a special audience with the nation's schoolchildren
because the nation's schoolchildren hear him and see him and read
him every single day. They cannot escape his reach.
Why give him yet another opportunity to indoctrinate the young?
