The video... (seriously)
It's not really an issue, though. It's one random video of some politically-active kids, at a private party to sing with their parents, where someone grabbed a quality camera and took a quick vid of their kids because the parents mostly happened to be big media types with access to that sort of thing... it's the sort of thing that gets kicked around partisan blogs to fire up the stupidly rabid partisans on both sides of the debate, something rah-rah-sports-team voters on both sides comment on and care about, but it doesn't say anything beyond that.
And comparing something some kids do with their parents to forced government-sponsored indoctrination is so insultingly crude that it doesn't even warrant a serious response. The difference is that parents do it together with their kids; to compare it to parents having their kids forcibly ripped away from them and indoctrinated by the government is insulting beyond words.
Most of the conservatives working themselves up into a fanatical fury over the video do not seriously see it that way. They see it as an opportunity to spin and spin and spin and spin themselves into a cloud of hot-air and desperate self-delusion, eager for anything, anything to get the story off of what a deep hole John McCain has dug himself into.
Hehehe, check out the comments and how they've been voted up and down. Every single negative comment (especially the ones that go off on random tangents against Obama, without commenting on the video) has been voted up obscenely high (1000+, absurdly so), while every positive or even remotely neutral comment has been slammed into the negatives. I suppose it's because the link has been spreading through conservative blogs desperate for any sort of 'good news', no matter how stupid or trivial... I like picturing the sorts of conservatives who trolled through the list of comments there, red-faced and furious, working themselves up into a fanatical rage as they vote-up every comment that agrees with them and vote-down every one they hate, as if this is their great contribution to the election they're so terrified of losing.
