Nearly everyone in the nation described the event as creepy and inappropriate, and even liberal trolls on conservative blogs were referring to the tape as "scary."
Everyone except the principal of the school where the event took place, that is.
Your humble correspondent personally phoned the school within hours of the tape's controversy coming to light this past Thursday morning. The administrator's office told me that they:
1. Would not acknowledge the tape's existence...
2. Would not confirm or deny that parents had been notified prior to the "worship" service...
3. Would not confirm if children who felt uncomfortable had been allowed an alternate activity.
What the school gladly told me was how they had knowledge of an illegal tape that had been made and distributed of a "private class activity." As if to assume that people did not have a right to know every last jot and tittle of what happens in that school at any given moment.
After 24 hours, the school finally acknowledged the tape's existence and did finally express outrage...at those who were complaining or calling the school to voice their opinion.
As it turned out, the person who likely made the recording, and was definitely the first person to upload it to the web, was a classmate of President Obama at Harvard, and as it turns out, a friend of the principal of this elementary school--both of whom were ardent supporters of the President.
Once the jig was up, the principal finally took questions from parents, whom she is reported to have told that she "had no regrets about how the matter was handled" and would "do it again," exactly the same way.
I understand clearly that these types of people are not the average voter who decided late in the game to support President Obama. I know that many independents who initially voted for him regret that vote and stories like this make them cringe even worse at the reality of what their vote did.
But these are the types of people who are energized and WORK for this President. He has surrounded himself with these types of people, who have this type of character, for the entirety of his political life.
And my best hunch is if these ardent supporters see the President befriend many of our nation's enemies (Chavez, Qaddafi, the U.N.), offer nothing more serious than just more talk of sanctions to radicals bent on our destruction (Iran, North Korea), and curtly side against our friends in significant conflicts of their own (Honduras, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic)... If he is willing to tell the American people one thing to get elected, and then without so much as batting an eye embark on the most radical transformation of America in our history...
What's to keep those who sing worship songs to him from thinking they can do the same exact things in their own spheres of influence?
It's just how he "gets things done!"