On the heels of the Obama NJ school indoctrination videos, Malkin on the Jamestown Project....
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What’s the Jamestown Project? Plus: Finding your “inner Obama”
By Michelle Malkin • September 24, 2009 03:37 PM
Charisse Carney-Nunes, who originally posted the Burlington Township (NJ) elementary school Obama chant video, has not responded to requests for comment — though someone did remove the video from her account this morning, as I mentioned earlier today. I linked to her bio at the Jamestown Project, where she is Senior Vice President of Programs. (FYI: In this interview, she says she has accepted a job with the Obama administration’s Transportation Department.)
What’s the Jamestown Project? From its “About Us” section:
The Jamestown Project is a diverse action-oriented think tank of new leaders who reach across boundaries and generations to make democracy real. Founded and operated primarily by people of color and women, The Jamestown Project consists of scholars, activists, and communities who use five broad strategies to achieve our mission: generating new ideas; promoting meaningful public conversations and engagement; cultivating new leaders; formulating political strategy and public policy; and using cutting-edge communications techniques that reach a broad public.
Children Do Democracy Too is an outgrowth of our Doing Democracy work. The purpose of the initiative is to equip children with the knowledge and tools necessary to meaningfully participate in civil society and democracy. The central question we seek to answer is, “How do we instill the values of citizenship and active participation into the youngest, and in many ways the most important, members of our democracy?”
The Jamestown Project released A Children’s Curriculum for Civic Engagement in the Fall of 2008 as part of this initiative. The curriculum is based on our book I DREAM FOR YOU A WORLD: A COVENANT FOR OUR CHILDREN.
The Curriculum adapts the concepts from the book into lessons and activities to promote civic engagement to elementary aged children. Grades 3 – 5 are the optimal age for children to not only understand their place in the world, but also a time to begin to comprehend their power and potential to make a difference in their own lives, their family, their communities, and their country.
We are currently piloting the curriculum and seeking new partners to help us evaluate the program, share learning, and to strategize about achieving future goals.
Question: How many other public schools have “instilled the values of citizenship and active participation into the youngest” through Jamestown Project Senior VP Carney-Nunes’ Obama-chanting rituals?
Here’s at least one other school in Salem, NJ at which Carney-Nunes proselytized — even urging one student to keep looking for “that inner Obama:”
From the hard wooden chairs of the Salem Middle School auditorium, children shouted gleefully “I am Barack Obama!” here Tuesday, prompted by the renowned author who penned a book of the same name.
Charisse Carney-Nunes, a former classmate of the president’s at Harvard Law School, spent her birthday reading some of her collection to the third-grade class, the colorful pages emblazoned on a big-screen projector above her.
Her stories are of a hope that often finds confinement within the poverty-stricken city.
“The most important thing I think, and the reason the book is called I Am Barack Obama, is because I like when children say I am Barack Obama,” Carney-Nunes said. “They understand that there is a little bit of Barack Obama in all of us.”
Her latest endeavor captures the journey of Obama from childhood to the White House steps, offering that the power to change the world lies with all of us…It was the endless series of questions about Obama that Carney-Nunes received during school book tours last year that led to her latest venture, she pointed out.
“They just wanted to talk about Barack Obama,” she said. “I decided you know what, it would be easiest if I just wrote a book.
At the end of the program, each child received a copy of Carney-Nunes publication. At least one was signed with a message to keep looking for that inner-Obama.
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Fun fact: Carney-Nunes’ Jamestown Project colleague Bakari Kitwana defended radical former green jobs czar Van Jones on FNC earlier this month:
At the Huffington Post, Kitwana smeared parents and conservative commentators who objected to the White House junior lobbyists-in-the-schools effort earlier this month as — you guessed it — RAAAAACISTS.
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Here’s a Jamestown Project overview reel:
I know we don't have a lot of Obama supporters here (at least not many who choose to identify themselves as such) but I have an open question for you who are Obama supporters:
What do you make of the indoctrination of school children, re the 'Obama chant' video?
What do make of the Obama Administration's great rush to pass bills requiring enormous expenditures (Obamacare, Stimulus II, Cap-and-Trade, etc.), without ensuring Congress understands what the Hell they are voting for AND not providing adequate public disclosure re Obama's transparency promise:
"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency"
- Barack Obama
What do you make of the employment of nearly three dozen "czars" hired by, and answerable only to, Obama? Each of who's duties are duplications of existing governmental offices.
What do you make of the Chicago Machine-like employment of Valerie Jarrett, longtime friend of Michelle Robinson Obama? Or, Chicago pol Rahm Emanuel, for that matter? Or Michelle's involvement in the Chicago Olympic bid boondoggle, to satisfy (Chicago Mayor) Richie Daley the Younger?
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November 2, 2010: You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out of office. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer."
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 10
On the heels of the Obama NJ school indoctrination videos, Malkin on the Jamestown Project....
I know we don't have a lot of Obama supporters here (at least not many who choose to identify themselves as such) but I have an open question for you who are Obama supporters:
What do you make of the indoctrination of school children, re the 'Obama chant' video?
The video is reprehensible. Whatever possible pedophile made it and then posted it on the internet without first obtaining the parents' consent to film their kids and make the vid public should be held liable, sued, and fired (if employed by the school). The fact that they were chanting/singing about Obama during Black History month is way secondary to the first issue of filming children without consent.
I agree with John Kerry that most don't or won't read the legislative language, anyway, but I also see a rationale and value to post any pending bill being considered on the internet for an adequate period to allow public comment.
What do make of the Obama Administration's great rush to pass bills requiring enormous expenditures (Obamacare, Stimulus II, Cap-and-Trade, etc.), without ensuring Congress understands what the Hell they are voting for AND not providing adequate public disclosure re Obama's transparency promise:
"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency"
- Barack Obama
It's not the responsibility of the executive branch to ensure every senator or rep "understands" a bill they are voting on in congress or mandate any enforcable timeline for passage, is it. I may be wrong here, and you seem to be a constitutional scholar, so point out wher ethis is a requirement or responsibility of the president to do this, and I might be persuaded to change my mind.
What do you make of the employment of nearly three dozen "czars" hired by, and answerable only to, Obama? Each of who's duties are duplications of existing governmental offices.
I'm not really warm to the idea, to tell you the truth, but is there any law against it? Perhaps there should be.
What do you make of the Chicago Machine-like employment of Valerie Jarrett, longtime friend of Michelle Robinson Obama? Or, Chicago pol Rahm Emanuel, for that matter? Or Michelle's involvement in the Chicago Olympic bid boondoggle, to satisfy (Chicago Mayor) Richie Daley the Younger?
Frankly don't know much about it at all. But is this anything new in politics anywhere at any level? Is it ever going to change? Can you do anything about it?
Last edited by El Diucklo; 09-25-2009 at 03:13 PM.
November 2, 2010: You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out of office. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 10
__________________ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:5,6)
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
Lo siento, para no, senor. "El patoescribió eso" es mas correcto. Mantenga tratar.
LMAO. Voy a tatar hacerlo mejor por la futura.
__________________ But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:5,6)
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Benjamin Franklin
There, I fixed it for you. Gee, I'm the only one to respond to your bait, and that's what I get in return? Thanks. Thanks a lot!
(Actually, I wish ALL of your responses were that succinct.)
Let's provide succinct translations to your responses as well:
1. Indoctrination of school kids:
E.D. - Indoctrination okay, but don't tape the evidence... that's pedophilia.
2. Absence of transparency
E.D. - Ehh... no one will read it, so no need to give the opportunity. And, who really believed the Great One meant what he said?
3. Rush to pass bills with enormous impact
E.D. - Politicians are ignorant anyway, so what if they rush to judgment. I don't have to live in the world that results.
4. Proliferation of Czars
E.D. - There's no law against it so Obama is okay.
5. Chicago-style nepotism in White House
E.D. - I'll just pretend there's nothing there. Plus, everyone else is doing too.
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November 2, 2010: You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out of office. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 10
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