Just Because We Can't Write A Lesson Plan Without Fucking It Up Doesn't Mean We Can't Run 16% Of The Economy...

Jesus H. Christ. 

Now we're to the point where the Obama Administration can't write a lesson plan for school children without fucking it up:

President Barack Obama's back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on children, creating yet another confrontation with the White House.

Obama plans to speak directly to students Tuesday about the need to work hard and stay in school. His address will be shown live on the White House Web site and on C-SPAN at noon EDT, a time when classrooms across the country will be able to tune in.

Schools don't have to show it. But districts across the country have been inundated with phone calls from parents and are struggling to address the controversy that broke out after Education Secretary Arne Duncan sent a letter to principals urging schools to watch.

Districts in states including Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Virginia, Wisconsin have decided not to show the speech to students. Others are still thinking it over or are letting parents have their kids opt out.

It gets better:

Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson plans, available online, originally recommended having students "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."

The White House revised the plans Wednesday to say students could "write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals."

Does anyone in that fucking administration think through anything? Why not hit yourselves over the head with a mallet and save the Republicans some time and energy?

Morons.

Comments

[Eric Blair]

I thought Emmanuel and Axelrod and those guys were supposed to know what they were about.

Either they really aren't running things, or their reputations were ill-deserved.

[smitty]

Have you seen Pete Stark?
If you lack a PhD, you've no room to criticize.
If you have a PhD, you've been trained not to criticize.

[JeffS]

Clearly not, Dennis. The Obama Administration has put its collective foot into its collective mouth so many times, in under 8 months!, that I'd be embarrassed if I were an Obama supporter.

[richard mcenroe]

They'll have to hit themselves harder. From what I've seen this week, the RNC and GOP party brass couldn't run a two-scout circle jerk...

[Tom Grey]

When will we see:
Obama Youth Brigades?

With the youth are marching, in unison, and joy. Perhaps raising their hands to salute the Great Leader, or is it Dear Leader, or perhaps Father leader?