{"id":4375,"date":"2005-06-06T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4375.html"},"modified":"2005-06-06T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T14:54:30","slug":"lets-retire-this-cliche-for-ever-shall-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lets-retire-this-cliche-for-ever-shall-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s retire this clich\u00c3\u00a9 for ever, shall we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine it&#8217;s difficult to come up with compelling rhetoric for every presidential declaration, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/06\/20050603-6.html\">Friday&#8217;s proclamation<\/a> from the White House in honor of &#8220;National Child&#8217;s Day&#8221; included one of those sentiments thought should be banned from our discourse forever.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Children are the future of our country and America&#8217;s next generation of leaders.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really, the children are the future? The next thing you&#8217;ll tell me is that is that if we teach them well, we can let them lead the way. We might also consider showing them all the beauty they possess inside.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons a few years back in which Skinner introduces the children of Springfield Elementary to sing a song they called, &#8220;The Children Are Our Future.&#8221; The lyrics went like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Children, children, future, future.<br \/>\nAre you ready for the children.<br \/>\nThe future is coming.<br \/>\nChildren, children, children are the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It prompted Homer to say, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never wanted a beer worse in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine it&#8217;s difficult to come up with compelling rhetoric for every presidential declaration, but Friday&#8217;s proclamation from the White House in honor of &#8220;National Child&#8217;s Day&#8221; included one of those sentiments thought should be banned from our discourse forever. &#8220;Children are the future of our country and America&#8217;s next generation of leaders.&#8221; Really, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}