I haven’t read the text of the speech, but my understanding is that during his first-day-of-school address yesterday, President Obama told the kids to work hard in school this year. It was one of those “That’s right folks, I’m the President” things that mean nothing and happen from time to time, usually when:
- The presidential limo still has the new car smell.
- The President is a lame duck.
All this business about Obama brainwashing the youth of America is a bunch of dittohead Limbaugh nonsense. By giving the “issue,” such as it is, this kind of legitimacy, people are talking about it on Glenn Beck’s terms. And Glenn Beck his ilk are wingnut a-holes given bully pulpits out of proportion to their being representative of the nation’s pulse to an elephantine degree.
I’m not providing any links to any articles about this story–pro or–con, because I don’t think it deserves the attention, and the purveyors of this crap don’t deserve the rewards of higher Google rankings and more banner ad revenue for making the nation more stupid than it already is. A problem, I might add, the media has been heavily contributing to for the better part of 25 years.
Oh, and heaven forbid that youth of America are forced to learn the lesson that sometimes the President will be someone you don’t like or agree with but you still have to take part in civic life.