Obama to Kids: "Take an adult to the Polls...Tell Them to Vote for You, By Voting for Sen. Obama"

The Obama-Biden Campaign Website is a Virtual Treasure Trove of Interesting Information, if You Don't Mind Getting Creeped Out...

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like they are now officially living in the twilight zone? Leaving aside for a moment the rapid socialization of most of our economic system, etc., etc., does anyone else but me feel like they are being barraged with so much weirdness at once that it's impossible to absorb? I'm talking about things such as my daughter (a braver troller than I) discovered on the "Obama for America" site:

10 Ways Kids for Obama can get involved:

• Create a Kids for Obama Group on My.Barackobama.com. For example, Chicago Kids for Obama or DC Kids for Obama and throw a party!
• Write a letter or editorial to your local news paper, expressing "Why Barack Obama should become the next US President".
• Find a Pen Pal - it could be in your school, city, state, or another state. Write and discuss different ways you can get involved.
• Draw a picture of Senator Barack Obama or "an expression of Democracy". For example, the Senator sitting in the White House or working on Capitol. Hill. You can send your drawing to the Obama for America Campaign Headquarters in Chicago and it will be posted for the Senator to see.
• Implement T-Shirt Thursday. Get friends to wear an official Obama for America T-Shirt to school.
• Take an adult (voting age) to the polls on Election Day and encourage them to vote for you, by voting for Senator Obama.
• Post an official Obama for America Campaign sticker/logo on your school bag.
• Wear an Obama for America Campaign button and/or clothing.
• Host a Senator Barack Obama House Party or sleep-over.
• Contribute to the Kids for Obama Blog .

I think Johan Goldberg, author of Liberal Facism, does a better of job explaining how problematic this creepy appeal to children is:

Since Plato’s Republic, politicians, intellectuals, and priests have
been fascinated with the idea of “capturing” children for social-
engineering purposes. This is why Robespierre advocated that chil-
dren be raised by the state. Hitler—who understood as well as any
the importance of winning the hearts and minds of youth—once re-
marked, “When an opponent says ‘I will not come over to your side,’
I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already...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.’” Woodrow
Wilson candidly observed that the primary mission of the educator
was to make children as unlike their parents as possible. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman stated it more starkly. “There is no more brilliant
hope on earth to-day,” the feminist icon proclaimed, “than this new
thought about the child...the recognition of ‘the child,’ children as
a class, children as citizens with rights to be guaranteed only by the
state; instead of our previous attitude toward them of absolute per-
sonal [that is, parental] ownership—the unchecked tyranny...of
the private home.”

Mr. Goldberg's book is nearly at the top of my list must-read history books. In addition to his regular columns posted twice weekly at National Review Online, he regularly posts on the site's blog "The Corner", and on the site's blog devoted exclusively to the book, entitled, appropriately, LIberal Fascism.

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Biographies

Mark Levin

Born in 1957, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Temple University and received his law degree from Temple University School of Law.

He has worked in the private sector as a constitutional attorney, is President of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a New York Times Bestselling author, commentator, and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. Before his WABC local show went national, Levin was a regular "caller" and fill-in host for Sean Hannity, who has dubbed Levin "The Great One". Levin has been called "an advisor" to talk pioneer Rush Limbaugh.

Levin served as an advisor to several cabinet members in Ronald Reagan's administration. He served as Attorney General Edwin Meese's Chief of Staff, deputy assistant for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Dept. of Education, and deputy solicitor for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.

He represented Edwin Meese during the Iran-Contra affair.

In 2001, he received the Ronald Reagan award from the American Conservative Union. Until 2007, he was a regular columnist on National Review Online, when his many other responsibilities caused him to reduce his presence on that site to frequent contributions to NRO's blog "The Corner".



Some nicknames for media outlets and public figures:
MSLSD: MSNBC
"Countdown to No Ratings" with Keith Oberbite
Screwball and Screwball: Hardball with Chris Matthews
Schmuckie Schumer: New York Senator Chuck Schumer
He mused that Rep. Barney Frank was "Sylvester the Cat", but later settled on "Daffy Duck" as best representing the lubricated lisp of Frank's speech pattern.

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Required Reading List Detail

Please note that this reading list is still be organized and is a work in progress. More detail will continue to be added.

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