The new parenting tool: Barack Obama
The latest in Obama worship. Bring extra-heavy-duty airsickness bag before reading. Via the Washington Post:
Sherry Jones was driving her 13-year-old son, Malcolm, to school the other morning when he mentioned something about some kid he didn’t like.
Something about the kid being a jerk.
Jones told him that wasn’t kind. When you speak of people, she said, always speak good of them.
“Look at Barack! . . . During the campaign, no matter what, Obama always took the high road,” she told him. “During the debates when John McCain would say a dig, Barack would never react. . . . He was always positive.”
Malcolm, who likes a good debate, was, for that moment, quiet.
In that silence, Jones realized that something about her spontaneous, trapped-in-the-car lecture was working. “If my son didn’t agree, he would let me know,” says Jones, an accountant who lives in Silver Spring. “He always has something else to say. . . . Usually, he will say, ‘Yeah, but . . . ‘ When I use Barack Obama as an example, I can see him. He’s quiet. He may sit up a little straighter.
Ditch the Bible. Just Do as Barack Does:
So some parents have leaped from reviewing Obama’s Cabinet choices to summoning him up at the breakfast table, invoking his name, words and accomplishments to motivate a dawdling, recalcitrant child.
ad_iconYou could call it Obama discipline or Obama etiquette, and it goes something like this:
Get up! Do you think Obama would have slept late and not made it to school on time?
Why don’t you guys share? Don’t you think Obama would want you to share?
How much did you read? Obama would have finished the book by now.
Do you think Obama would sneak cigarettes? (Oops.)
Next, from the makers of Talking Elmo: Talking Obama dolls who’ll remind your kids to brush their teeth and eat their veggies.
And commenter 30 pcs of silver sees “What Would Barack Do(WWBD) bracelets in the making.”
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Ummmm, yes. I see the point. Like, when I buy a house, I should be like Barack and look up the nearest racketeer who will give me a huge discount.
And, I should start smoking right away because, well, Barack does it.
Then, I should always play down the American Flag, the Pledge of Allegiance and all of that silly patriotic stuff because it is certainly “over the top”.
I should certainly stop all of this silly arguing over the right to life because aborted babies who are breathing and have heartbeats should be murdered immediately because, technically, they are not alive.
And, on and on.
Substitue obama for hitler then you have germany 1933 or russia 1930.
russia would be stalin of course.
Yea, but can he really forgive our sins, or just heal us?
GAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can Obama heal that queasy feeling I’ve had ever since he got elected?
The kid probably had a dozen good comebacks.
He probably didn’t want to say anything bad about the man his mother worships.
It seems as if momma doesn’t have a more tangible role model for this young man … in the way of a FATHER … or, perhaps, even herself.
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I see some: What Would Barack Do(WWBD) bracelets in the making … I think I am going to be sick.
obummer took the “high road” during college, too. Just say no, man.
Obama inhaled.
But he didn’t pay retail.
Just the sort of savvy consumerist thinking we need for these TET (troubled economic times). *drink*
Obama consorted with domestic and foreign terrorists. Ayers hasn’t blown up anything since. Thus proving that Obama’s “direct talks” work miracles.
(Man – this spin thing is like magic!)
And should I sit in the pew and hear my pastor of 20 years spewing rage and racial hate, why I’ll just WWBD and simply ignore it.
Maybe all the undergrads at Occidental should WWBD and waste their time and minds like BHO did for a while.
Apparently Dear Leader’s warts have become invisible. I wonder what the paparazzi bounty is on a photo of BHO sneaking a smoke?
WOW! Just WOW!
This reminds me of things written by a youth organization some time ago:
“Leader, my Leader, give me by God. Protect and preserve my life for long. You saved [our country] in time of need. I thank you for my daily bread. Be with me for a long time, do not leave me, Leader, my Leader, my faith, my light, Hail to my Leader!”
Then that leader said this:
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I say calmly, ‘Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community’.”
I may be late to the party but I’ve been reading Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism”.
The parallels with Germany and Italy eighty years ago keep me awake at night.
Keep the change, I want America back.
The dark side of the force is truly strong with the one and his rabid followers. This is the last guy I want to use as a role model. Unkown what his GPA was in college (records sealed), but the smartest man in the world according to his worshippers. No record of him accomplishing anything other than running for the next public office he could weasel his way into. Self proclaimed drug addict at one stage of his life that would disqualify most from even a Secret security clearnce in the US Military. From what I have seen can’t handle stress very well and fell back into smoking and developed the nervous twitch I have read about. The first crisis hits and I expect him to be in the corner in the fetal position unable to act. What a freaking role model!
Reality is going to smack these people very hard in the face after 20 Jan 09 and I hope there little liberal minds can handle it.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
BINGO!
Barack Obama the icon vs Barack Obama the man. Fantasy and reality are going to collide, real soon, real hard for a lot of people.
Cocaine? You think Obama would do….oh nevermind.
It’s not so bad; I believe PEBO wears a WWJD bracelet(What Would Jimma Do); Welcome Back Carter!
So, let me get this straight, I should bowl like a drunk Elmer Fudd during duck season, or is that rabbit season, and then I should be the perfect role model?
Obama sneakers, a smell above the rest
Well played.
I’d use d’ohbama as an example if I wanted to teach my child how to imply his grandmother was a racist.
“But mommy, I don’t want to throw my friends under the bus…”
I just want to say that that picture of PEBO is downright hilarious.
Kind of makes me wish Obama had been where he is when I was a kid; then every time my dad accused me of being lazy, instead of working harder I could have said, “But Barack hasn’t done a single thing his whole life, and look where he is today.”
LOL 30pcs, I knew it seemed familiar. It’s from the trailer for The Color of Money, part 2.
TXRose I don’t mean to intrude, however, your response is the only one.
Double Gaggg!!!!
There will surely be a frenzy of like stories out of the MSM from now until 01/20/2009, but when the you know what continues to hit the fan here and abroad daily, the MSM can’t help but notice PEBO not lookin’ so clean and articulate anymore; To say he is in over his head is to say the Titanic is a tad bit below the surface of the North Atlantic.
Is that where it’s from? Hilarious!
Took the high-road? Lady, that anti-American con artist would talk in circles whenever cornered in debates, or simply questioned (and never give a definitive answer) and straight deny (lie) any associations he had with characters sane people would find shady.
Have your kid model himself after a liar. Brilliant.
Something tells me we’re going to have eight years of this garbage. What would it take to have closed elections so we don’t end up with another RINO??
I am so torn about where I think things will go from here? Will the left ask why the messiah did not take troops out of Iraq? Or will they demand Israel give up the Gaza…Golan…what?
It won’t matter. The US and/or Israel will be wrong!
That’s quite a visual impression for me. Pull the string (a true representation of Obama as a puppet), and out comes…
“Uh, uh, um, uh, I have, uh, uhh, you see, um, uh…”
“I have always said (fill in the blank.)”
“I have a funny name!”
“I don’t look like you!”
“I’ll pass…Next question!”
What a marvelous tool to teach the children of the oppressed.
The godless have always looked for their own god, and by golly they finally found one!
Well, they can keep him. I’ve got the real and only winner.
Wonder what will happen when they finally find their idol has clay feet?
No different from the rest of the crap they’re spoon fed in the pubic skrewl system.
I’m going to putting out a commemorative set of coins and plates with that image. Only $19.95.
WWBD? Cocaine?
Montel Williams already is selling “coins” and “postage stamps” with Obama on them. I suspect it won’t be long before he will be pitching talking Obama dolls too.
OK! I WANT THESE COMPARISONS OF BARAK OBAMA AND HITLER TO STOP INSTANTLY!!!
IT’S TOTALLY UNFAIR AND COMPLETELY INACCURATE!!!
Hitler hated Communism – Obama embraces it
Billy Mays could do the infomercial … they’ll sell like hotcakes. Now, all I want to know is can I get in on it?
You mean like this?
Like “getting in people’s faces”?
Dang…the hooker I picked up the other night had an Obama tatoo on her arm. She also slapped me with a Obama surcharge for rights to see the tatoo. She then tried to sell me some coins and plates but by then I was too high on the smack to really know what was going on.
WWBD? The same thing he has always done: vote present.
Now as a guide through life that may not be the most inspiring plan, but it obviously worked for him. There’s also Cheat & Lie, but I’m trying to be positive here.
On January 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 pm, BayStateRepublican said:
What took pot-smoking Barry from Occidental to two Ivy League schools?
What do you want to bet that William Ayers played a very direct role in getting Obama into Columbia and Harvard?
Yep, that sums it up pretty well. He’s a tool. (and I don’t mean that in the sense of something useful to get a job done)
Barack: “And kids, don’t forget to take lunch money from the other kids to give those that need to move forward. You may think that it is stealing, but it’s really just spreading the wealth around.”
Look on the bright side— at least now liberal moms all across the country have stopped asking their kids, “What would Che do?”
True.
Barack Obama as an example someone who always takes the high road, huh? Would that be when he called Sarah Palin a pig or when he made the rude gesture while saying Hillary Clinton’s name?
Yep, he’s such a role model for the youths of America.
I needed to heed your warning…and then I required two bags.
Heck, I’m still feeling ill.
uuuugggh..
gotta go……………….
three.
On January 3rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm, AlohaGuy said:
Cocaine and Larry Sinclair.
What a role model for kids. /sarc
On January 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:
Actually, Hitler was a “National Socialist”. Obama is a “Democratic Socialists”. The two have a lot in common.
And Socialism is just a means to a Communist end:
One of my troopers forwarded this to me. Yep….this is how the lemmings see him….
http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/1506
What- Barack Obama is a tool. Yeah, I know.
On the Obama – Hitler connection, here’s a Hot Air flashback.
Okay, the first example of the debate with McCain is really obnoxious because The One comes across as a sanctimonious prig who is above debate.
However, I don’t have a problem with people telling their kids to get their butts out of bed because “Obama does”, and I don’t see that particular example as Messianic. It’s not unlike using the story of Washington and the Cherry Tree to shame your kids into not telling a lie.
Heck, if he can inspire the boyz in the hood to pull up their pants, it’s a win for all of us.
I love answering a question with a question, don’t you?
But didn’t he build the log cabin school and write the books himself?
Didn’t Obama allow alot of people to share time under the bus?
Didn’t you see the first answer above?
Don’t ya think I fixed that one right?
The new parenting tool for young women “punished” with a baby:
The Obama Baby Doll
Smart kid, his mother may have snapped.
Yet black males killing black males still remains rampant…at least here in Raleigh-Durham (mainly Durham).
Nope. Won’t happen. He’s still the first black president.
If libs forgive ex-klansmen, rapists, and drunks in accidents who leave passengers for dead, they’ll forgive BO.
Hmmm.
Putting the “crack” in crack cocaine…
How do reporters always happen to come across these people and stories that fit so easily into their pre-conceived narratives?
Seriously, how do you find a random mom who just happened to use BO as an example on the way to school lately?
mattymatt,
That’s what I thought as well. I guess you gotta know where to look.
And if Republican parents told their kids to as “What would Bush do?”, liberals would have CPS there and the kids removed from the home.
He was chronically late to Senate committee meetings, so I’d say the answer is Yes.
I agree with RedRepub. The obsequious libs will continue to fawn and swoon no matter how much BO trashes the country. Libs don’t live in reality which explains why BO is their infallible God. Buyer’s remorse only affects those who CAN come to their senses.
I think this lady’s son remained quiet because he was dumbfounded by her stupidity. Surely, he has more sense than she.
I’m pretty sure that the same people who suffer from BDS are those that suffer from BWS (Barack Worship Syndrome). Unfortunately, it does not appear there is a cure for either because those afflicted are impervious to facts.
Mom should be thinking harder. Tell him how BHO would always uses surrogates, like a newspaper for instance, his pastor, neighbors to do the dirty work. Junior must have some classmates that could do a little digging around for him.
This trend will stop instantly when kids say, “Yeah, Mom, and Barack married his baby mama. How come my baby daddy won’t marry you?”
Names are being taken.Ditch the Bible. Just Do as Barack Does:He Who Has Come has enemies everywhere.
Watch
Inform
Or more simply: Mother Sherry Jones is one dumb momma.
Ok. So what you are saying is, ditch the WWJD braclets to WWOD.
How pathetic can we get? Scary thing is, it will not get better, read the bible.
Glad I didn’t have lunch before reading this.
Why do I get the feeling that Obama would accept as much worship as he was given?
Mom: “You better behave or Brack’ll come get cha.”
Mark Goldblatt at NRO had a significantly more optimistic view on this than our snarky band of conservatives.
My revulsion of all practices Obama remains, but maybe something good could come from it.
“Now Honey, go to school. What do you think Barack would have done?”
“Stayed faithful to his family.”
And maybe, just maybe that will help curb some of the self-destructive tendencies in the black community.
Wow – look what we got here: a mother wants her son to take the high road and uses Obama as an example and you people: the home-schooled losers have a problem with that.
I heard a father using Tiger Woods as an example of staying positive – do you people have a problem with that also?
Nice try. Unfortunately for your little scenario, Tiger Woods is a good role model–someone who has worked hard since a very early age, set a good example, and continues to give back to the community in positive ways.