Parents, Don't Let Your Children Grow up to be President

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

I look forward to the day when “mission accomplished” means we have lasting peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You blessings shower upon me.
I don’t even have to put coins in your fountain; you drench me with good things.

I am surrounded by people who want good things for me.
I am free to do things I enjoy and things that are important to me.

I get to sing and worship, visit new places, learn about the world around me.
I see signs of your presence and activity all around me.

Jesus said that those who know their relationship to you are blessed.
Poor in spirit, meek, thirsting for righteousness, peacemakers, persecuted for your sake.

They know blessing, He said.
No doubt about it.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Name your price. I’ve got to have that coin for my collection.”

[This exchange was not the source behind the parable of the lost coin.]

D. Blog: Parents Don’t Want Their Children to Listen to the President?

How to interpret this phenomenon?

It’s okay for a class of students to be visited by a President who wants to read a book to them upside down, but not okay for their children to be encouraged by a President to get good grades and stay in school. Which President, do you suppose is the African-American?

Or, when parents have been brainwashed, they have a paranoid fear that their children might not inherit the same mental illness?

Or, these parents don’t want their children to achieve more than they have?

Or, there are those parents who don’t want their children to think they can grow up to be President?

Or, free speech is okay for crazy people at town hall meetings, but don’t expose our children to a man who makes sense?

I draw no conclusions, but a rational explanation has not come to my attention.