Obama on schools: explain the controversy, please
Since when did “Do your best at school” become a coercive, politically-biased message?
Barack Obama, the man we legally and democratically elected to be our president, wants to support education by speaking in our schools today, as both Bill Clinton and GW Bush did before him.
“Special interest groups” are protesting Obama’s speech. For real? I’m struggling to believe it, and even wonder if the media might be making up a controversy that doesn’t exist. What’s even remotely controversial about “do your best at school?”
The president is not going to talk about health care or anything else of a political nature. He even made the text of his speech available ahead of time, so parents and educators could be assured of that.
Mr. Obama is a black man who was raised by a single mother, who nevertheless managed to be an educational success: he knows what he is talking about. Moreover, he has already proven to be an inspiration to an entire socio-economic class that desperately needs role models.
I have no patience with people who only love democracy and freedom of speech when it serves their own interests.
And I have no patience with people who are apparently so afraid of the man himself that they can’t let their children hear ANYTHING he has to say… and yet remain willing to raise those children among the dangerous electorate who chose this man as their leader.
Perhaps it’s not Barack Obama we’re afraid of at all, but rather the specter that he might actually help someone — or even a whole class of someones — succeed, when we’d rather they didn’t.
