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Silent Running —
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Obama Video of Inspirational Singing By Young Supporters.
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Here is a video that has been making the rounds. It shows some young Obama supporters offering inspirational songs of praise (tip to Instapundit and Roger Simon ): Roger Simon writes : Watching this video has disturbed me more than almost anything I have seen in recent years. It is the kind of exploitation of children that reminds me of Young Pioneer Camps I saw when visiting the Soviet Union in the Eighties. You could say, as some have, that this is much like what happens with children in churches and synagogues across America, but this is about a political ...
Behold! The Vanguard of the Class-Conscious Youth!
GayPatriot —
... As I tip my hat to Glenn Reynolds for providing the video above, I have seen several versions on the web, to which various friends, including a lesbian reader from Venice, the very burg where the video was shot, have alerted me. A bold and courageous dissident she!
Glenn links one blog which compares this video to that of other children singing the praise of their Dear Leader.
After watching the video, Roger Simon asks of the leftists producing this perverted propaganda:
And they complain about the religious right - can you ...
"As creepy and inappropriate as this singing is -- it’s not as bad as what Obama is actually proposing..."
Althouse —
... I'd like to say something about it too, but I can't force myself through even the first minute. I gag on treacle. But some people seem to think we should be deeply disturbed by this video. Lindgren links to Roger Simon, who says: ...
A Quick Take On Two Controversies,
Stubborn Facts —
... Now, I know it's just a bunch of young Obama supporters singing his praises, but that just looks creepy, and has the unintended consequence of looking like something out of North Korea. Obviously, this isn't anything like that, and by all accounts this wasn't orchestrated by the Obama camp, but not only do I get a weird vibe from that video, shouldn't someone have anticipated how some people might react? I mean, these are like nine-year olds, right? Besides that fact that this will, and already has been misinterpreted by Obama's enemies, there's something unseemly about ...
