Addressing the Children
President Obama’s speech to school children has been the subject of many posts. As always opinions belong to the quoted bloggers.
For those of you charging that this is a Socialist agenda, keep in mind Presidents Reagan, and H.W. Bush also addressed America’s students. They too were met with critics for doing so.
And, on the other side, releasing the transcript when the media first started asking for it, would have likely prevented a lot of the outrage.
In his talk the President says “You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.” Those in our state impacted by layoffs and the economic downturn can certainly understand the importance of this message.
Here we go. The South Carolina GOPher patrol is at it again. And they want to use your taxpayer money to send them to the statehouse to work on, get this, legislation to “prevent further efforts by the President to influence school kids.”
Personal responsibility, developing goals, not using circumstances as an excuse, hard work, respect for yourself and others, wow that’s some scary stuff there! Oh wait, no it isn’t. It’s what we’ve been telling our children for generations.
The parents who were so sure, absolutely convinced that there were unimaginable levels of improper politics that were going to be “sold” to unsuspecting children will never, of course, admit that their suspicions were the slightest bit unreasonable. They’ll only sit back with a big smile on their face, confident that the stink they raised was the only thing that prompted Obama to post the text of the speech to begin with. (Despite the fact that it’s practically routine that a president releases the complete text of a major address before he sits down to deliver it…it is the Information Age, after all.)