The controvesy over President Obama’s remarks today to school children was all about politics, pure and simple.
Conservatives were all up in arms that the President was going to foster his liberal ideas on the minds of children.
As reported in the Washington Post, it got so bad that some parents threatened to keep their children out of school to avoid hearing the speech. Of course, this was before any of these conservative Republicans knew even one word about what was in the speech.
Basically, they didn’t want a Democratic President speaking directly to their children. Do you think that if Obama was a Republican that they’d have a problem with the President addressing children in school? Of course not. I never heard this outrage in when former President Regan or the first Pres. Bush addressed children directly.
No — this is the typical one-sided, mean spirited, uncompromising politics as usual. And it stinks.
So now that the While House has given out an advanced text of the speech, what is the reaction?
But after reading the advance text, the Florida GOP chairman who last week accused the president of trying to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda,” said he has no problem with letting his children watch.
Well I’ll be. AFTER getting the facts about what President Obama plans to actually say to students, suddenly there is no problem.
“It’s a good speech,” the official, Jim Greer, said Monday. “It encourages kids to stay in school and the importance of education, and I think that’s what a president should do.”
Even former first lady Laura Bush said she has no problem with President Obama speaking directly to students.
Partisan politics makes me sick to my stomach.
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