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Tea-Party Protesters Hit 'Pro-Obama' Jersey School

Demonstrators sing 'God Bless America' to protest song about prez

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(Newser) – A band of tea-party protesters descended on a New Jersey elementary school yesterday, complaining that a class song hailing President Obama was "indoctrinating" kids. Some 70 protesters sang God Bless America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic outside the B. Bernice Young School in a suburb 15 miles northeast of Philadelphia.

The rally was in reaction to a YouTube video showing a second-grade class singing lyrics including: "Mmm, mmm, Barack Hussein Obama; he said that all must lend a hand to make this country strong again." Critics charged the song was teaching children to "idolize" the president. "There was no intention to make any political statement or promote a political agenda," said an official from the local school district.

Tea party protesters gathered yesterday outside the B. Bernice Young Elementary School to demonstrate against a song about President Obama sung by a group of second graders.
Tea party protesters gathered yesterday outside the B. Bernice Young Elementary School to demonstrate against a song about President Obama sung by a group of second graders.   (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
A police car sits nearby as people walk to B. Bernice Young Elementary School Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in Burlington Township, N.J. New Jersey's education commissioner has ordered a review after a YouTube video shows more than a dozen children learning a song celebrating President Barack Obama.
A police car sits nearby as people walk to B. Bernice Young Elementary School Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, in Burlington Township, N.J. New Jersey's education commissioner has ordered a review after a YouTube...   (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Mad
Oct 13, 09 3:18 AM CDT
How low class, protesting second graders! Republicans have zero honor and have no concept of respect. Their party is in complete meltdown Reply
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shonangreg
Oct 13, 09 4:09 AM CDT
Totally agreed, Mad, except this is not Republicans. These are the FOX News lackeys. They're mostly Republicans, but most Republicans wouldn't claim them, I think. I just wish the regular Republicans would speak up and start trying to publicly reform their own party -- before Beck and Co. steal it for good.
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RockyPneumonia
Oct 13, 09 5:08 AM CDT
You're right, shonangreg. Republicans are to these folks as Democrats are to...OK, the simile falls apart here; we don't have an equivalent of these lunatics.
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shonangreg
Oct 13, 09 7:07 AM CDT
Yes yes yes, Rocky. We have our fringes, but we don't have an orly taitz-beck-hannity-bachmann-palin wing . . . Maybe if we were willing to sell our soul for victory, we'd let it happen to our party too . . .
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Jes
Oct 13, 09 10:51 AM CDT
I'll finish the simile: These guys are to Republicans as the Animal Liberation Front is to Democrats. (Luckily, the ALF is a lot less active than the teabaggers since they go more for bombs than ignorant douchebaggery.)
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