Video: Childrens' Obama Song Draws Protest Outside School

Toward the end of last month, a video appeared on YouTube showing schoolchildren at Bernice Young Elementary School in Jersey chanting two songs in praise of President Obama. It was immediately pounced upon by the embittered demagogues-in-exile at Fox News, and their coverage of this important issue finally bore indignant fruit yesterday, when dozens of protesters recited their own chant outside the school: "Educate, don't indoctrinate; Educate don't indoctrinate."

The children performed the songs last March, and it's kind of hard to tell from this video (below) exactly what they're singing. But what is clear is that their love for our most awesomest president is sooo cuuuuute! The complete lyrics are on the YouTube post, but they include lines such as "Mm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama / He said that all must lend a hand, to make this country strong again. / He said we must be fair today, equal work means equal pay." It would be outrageous if they were singing about President Bush, but this is Nobel laureate and unicorn-tamer Barack Ohhhhbama we're talking about!

But dozens of New Jersey adults are angry, and a couple of them even have children enrolled at the school. Parent Gina Altokova tells WCBS, "I came from former Soviet Union as a kid. I was singing songs to the leader Brezhnev and all the others. They were bigger than God. Millions of us were singing songs to Great leaders. This is a shame. This must stop." School officials say the song was not intended to make a political statement or promote a political agenda, and the teacher who was in charge of the class has since retired.

The school also says they sent the lyrics home to parents for them to review. But mother Gina Pronchick says, "These words never came home. Obama. Say yes to Obama. Find your inner Obama. That's brainwashing. This is not America. This is a communist country." It's believed that all the protesting parents were immediately rounded up and sent to reeducation labor camps in northern Minnesota as punishment for their disloyalty. Below, the indoctrination video.

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By John Del Signore in News on October 13, 2009 12:15 PM

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invisibleman

when is Panya on Stuyvesant St gonna reopen?

hubcap

lol communism. i feel like i'm in the 40s. who's up for another red scare???

karl kastle

it would be like communist russia, except THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T REQUEST THE SONGS BE SUNG.

i'm all for keeping these stupid songs out of the schools, but don't turn this into a communist thing. this is just a reflection of some stupid teachers. obama had nothing to do with it.

Past Taliban

Actually, Obama has nothing to do with ANYTHING because he's just Goldman Sachs puppet.

Past Taliban

Judging by the little blond boy 'singing' in the vid, it looks like besides being indoctrinated these kids are being taught to be faggy too.

snickerdoodle

Yawn.

JacqueMehoff

couldn't this be considered patriotic?

why is God Bless America on that sign?

longacre

No, it is not patriotic. We don't even worship the founding fathers. Why should we sing songs about a guy these teachers probably hadn't heard of 18 months ago?

JacqueMehoff

USA! USA! USA!

I am a REAL AMERICAN,

Fight for what's Right,

fight for what's right.

Past Taliban

Of COURSE you're a "Real American"

... you take it up the azz everyday, don't you?

Billiamsburg

lol @ impoverished white people. keep clinging to those dreams!

longacre

"I came from former Soviet Union as a kid. I was singing songs to the leader Brezhnev and all the others. They were bigger than God. Millions of us were singing songs to Great leaders. This is a shame. This must stop."

You can ignore the quotes from the Fox News watching moms, but you cannot ignore this one. Unfortunately, the teachers involved here are simply imbeciles, so they can't blame "dear leader" for what they did.

ckl

obaaaaama

you're breakin my heart

you're shakin' my confidence

daily

JacqueMehoff

don't these people have jobs, GET a JOB!

if not, was there anyone who paid money to these people to either get there or pay them for their time to protest the school?

what a bunch of losers.

etypical

you'd think they have the jobs that Obama saved and yet...

Look, swap Obama with Bush and the country would be apoplectic, that being said, it's not cool, it serves no purpose and it shows a teacher too lazy to teach.

JenChungsBaby

I would bet there were schoolkids in Wyoming or wherever deep in the heart of red state country singing songs to Bush. But the media didn't go apeshit over it.

NannyState

This whole thing is a tempest in a teabag.

SimonLok

i'm sorry, but the teacher that wasted class time with that should be disciplined. first for the wasted time, 2nd for politicizing a class which at that level should be spending time on learning to read, write and add. I would be pissed if my kid was involved in that for any politician and on top of that the video is a little creepy.