Obama.  To speak before the children on the day after Labor Day.  Horrors!

Time for all the bloggers to run to Photo-shop and splice together images of Hitler Youth with Obama buttons!

I mean, the timing of it all!  Right here, when he’s pushing Health Care!  And… on the first day of school for many locales.  One or the other.

Parents in Utah, Kentucky and Texas are keeping their children out of school for the day.  To boycott th video taped message.  I don’t know what age children will start making these connections, but the connection will be made: your parents are bonkers!  (Or, I suppose, in the most rarefied of red districts, the students left behind have parents who are Liberal Socialist Communists?)

There is some manner of historical digging.  We remember what Bush was doing on September 11, and that was tied directly to promotion of his “No Child Left Behind” policies.  Reagan took a student’s question and gave his support for Supply Side Economics.  Apparently.  I suppose politico digs up something a bit more algined to this “controversy”.

Obama isn’t the first president to be criticized this way. O’Neill recalled President George H.W. Bush made televised address to students in October 1991 as campaign season was heating up. A handful of Democrats denounced Bush’s address as pure politics. Bush asked students to “take control” of their education and to write him a letter about ways students could help him achieve his goals, strikingly similar to Obama’s messages.

I don’t remember that speech.  Will the kids remember the Obama speech?
I do think things surrounding the Persian Gulf War trended around the boosterism that Obama is claimed to be pecking out here, treated as the naturally good thing in stasis.  I know that in grades higher than I was and probably in locales more liberal than I was in, some students organized a walk-out at the start of the Gulf War… for a conciousness veneer to play hookey, I would say.

Anyway.  My message to the Negative Reaction to Obama on this:  Get a Grip.

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