The First Reader stopped by the cafeteria at Viers Mill School, where Mr. Obama admitted to having read Harry Potter books (with his daughter, Malia), but not the Goosebumps series of children’s horror books that are apparently a favorite of many of the kids at the school.
President Obama visits a Washington-area school.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Viers Mill schoolchildren squealed when the president called on them.
The school receives federal poverty aid and has closed the achievement gap between minority children and other students, administration officials said.
Musta been like magic to have The President in front of your class. Eisenhower, visit my grammar school? Not so much.
Clearly a Sneak Attack in his war against the non-communist-indoctrination of our children. Has he no shame!!!!!!!
Clearly the indoctrination has already begun!! The man must be STOPPED!!
WHAT! President Obama has never read a Goosebumps book but has read a Harry Potter book? He truly is an enemy of this nation. Let’s run him out!
Beckies will send death threats to this school
Beckies will send death threats to this school
No doubt the principal already has. Very likely some parents have also threatened to remove their kids from school unless he/she resigns.
“President Obama visits a Washington-area school … schoolchildren squealed when the president called on them.”
Ammo sales spike yet again.
Ammo sales spike yet again.
Why do you think the nuts haven’t posted here yet?
“Why do you think the nuts haven’t posted here yet?”
They haven’t gotten their marching orders from Fixed News, Michelle Malkin et al.
How awesome! Imagine having a class room visitor….and looking up to see the President of the United States standing in your door!
Maxwell Smart: Well, if it isn’t the old ’show-up-at-a-school-and-encourage-kids-to-do-well’ trick!! He’s an evil genius I tell you……
BFD Pres Obama visits a school, and it’s magical, mystical and wonderful!!
Pres Bush visits a school and it’s “He’s holding the book upside down” “Are you sure he can read it?” “Why didn’t he immediately act alarmed, drop the book, and run back to the White House?”
How about “He can’t even spell potato”.
Can you say “Double standard”? Sure you can.
And that was without ‘marching orders’, Chow Shark.
Maybe if Obama misspelled Potato or sat reading My Pet Goat during a terrorist attack it’d be a double standard. Are you sure you wanna go there??
I just did, Cargo, you having trouble reading?
How about the “artificial turkey”?
It’s all the same baloney – Obama good Bush bad
Plenty of time to photo-op with schoolkids. Not enough time to announce an Afghanistan policy.
Hope. Change.
“Plenty of time to photo-op with schoolkids. Not enough time to announce an Afghanistan policy.
Hope. Change.”
Complex matters take more than a minute or two and that sober second look approach to world affairs is definitely a change the world can live with, even if the crazies can’t handle it. Without the cowboy hat on, one must learn to sustain the complexities of reality and then act in the appropriate manner. Otherwise you end up with Iraq.
That would have been so cool. But talking Harry Potter with kids is potentially dangerous. I read and loved the books but I have nowhere near the retention of detail as my daughters.
It was really quite risky, perhaps even to the whole of the free world, for President Obama to discuss Harry Potter with children.
Perhaps that explains GWB’s decision to stick with goats.