Haven't done a good job with keeping up with this thing, so I'm going to get a little spammy in the next couple days trying to catch up. But feel free to comment on any previous post if I make a new one before you get a chance. I appreciate the discussion in my last post, that's what I'm looking for! :D
In class today, an issue came up about the school children singing "praises" to Obama. Someone brought up the point that the same thing happened with school children right after Hurricane Katrina singing similar "praises" to George W Bush. Here's a link I found to that story:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/17/katrina-song/
The published date of the article is April 2006, so some time ago. Although most of us may not have heard about it, myself included, it's not something that's just now surfaced, even though it's being brought up now in response to the Obama song.
I think the reason the Bush song didn't get as much publicity and isn't nearly as creepy is because people weren't naming their children after George Bush before he was even elected (commence digging up stories on people who named their children after him -- one or two doesn't count). People have and do literally praise Obama, so I think that is why this story is getting so much attention in comparison to the other one.
What do you think?
Monday, September 28, 2009
Bush Song vs. Obama Song
Posted by Candice at 8:00 PM
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People name their kids after famous people all the time. It doesn't really creep me out because that's their business and there are so many other important issues to address that something as trivial as other people's name choosing just doesn't really take any more precedence than what they name their pets. The Obama song got attention because some of the people who lean to the right just look for anything (no matter how insignificant) to make him seem more "socialist." Maybe if they wait around long enough he might actually do something significantly bad (i.e. response to Katrina) and then they might actually get more than an eye-roll from people who are looking for politically significant stories.
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