President Obama is going to address the nation’s school children today. Some parents are objecting. I don’t in principle. It would be a good custom for presidents, a patriotic exercise, an education in citizenship for the young tykes. I remember how in the days of JFK, we were all caught up in the “President’s physical fitness program,” doing pull-ups for our country.
And yet, if the President tries to form a children’s crusade, enlisting them in his causes and asking them to help him get his policies passed, I can understand the objections. Certainly, the President could serve as a good role model for African-American males, many of whom have written off school and vice versa, and his exhortations to value education could be very helpful. But I could see parents whose children nag them to support the president getting very annoyed.
Those of you whose children hard the speech, please report. What did the KIDS think of the speech? Are they now brainwashed zombies chanting O-ba-ma? Or not?
UPDATE: Here is the speech.
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