\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What is the big deal about the President of the United States’ intended internet address to school children this week? What makes it different than presidents who have addressed kids in the past? Why are parents getting so emotional over the intended address?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I sure don’t want Obama preaching to my kids on Tuesday, but WHY? Conservatives all over television, radio and internet are saying that it’s about the “lesson plans.” It is, but it’s more. If the Department of Education had provided glossy lesson plans and instructions to make posters about serving Reagan or Bush the teachers would have been screaming, it’s their classroom, their classtime. They would have simply IGNORED the materials.\n<\/p>\n
One of the most disturbing aspects of Tuesday morning’s address is number of school teachers wriggling with anxiety over the opportunity to suspend all that laborious reading and writing, to spend time with their beloved leader and share him, and his teachings, with the young people they influence.\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Would teachers be wasting their precious time reading a book to the class G.H.W.Bush suggested they read? I think not. But I’ll lay 20 to your 1, that every library in the U.S. has been emptied of Obama books, and teachers are spending their stipends on them at the bookstore.\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The problem is not that Obama wants to encourage kids to be something great, the problem is this is just one more part of the Obama Blitz: the all-out media onslaught to promote OBAMA. Get his face out there, everywhere, and get his message to feel mainstream.\n<\/p>\n
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