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Family Security Matters » Publications » Why Parents Don't Trust the Educator-in-Chief and His Comrades: "They think we're crazy. 'They' are the sneering defenders of Barack Obama who can't fathom the backlash against the president's nationwide speech to schoolchildren next Tuesday. 'We' are parents with eyes wide open to the potential for politicized abuse in America's classrooms.

Ask moms and dads in Farmington, Utah, who discovered this week that their children sat through a Hollywood propaganda video promoting the cult of Obama. In the clip, a parade of entertainers vow to flush their toilets less, buy hybrid vehicles, end poverty and world hunger, and commit to 'service' for 'change.' Actress Demi Moore leads the glitterati in a collective promise 'to be a servant to our president.' Musician Anthony Kiedis pledges 'to be of service to Barack Obama.'

The campaign commercial crescendos with the stars and starlets asking their audience: 'What's your pledge?'

This same 'Do Something' ethos infected the U.S. Department of Education teachers guides accompanying the announcement of Obama's speech -- until late Wednesday, that is, when the White House removed some of the activist language exhorting students to come up with ways to 'help the president.' Education Secretary Arne Duncan had disseminated the material directly to principals across the country"