Sneakeasy/society

This was a speech that, if Thomas Sowell, or Bill Cosby, had given a variation of it, would have had many on the Left finding fault with it.

Aside from the fact it is as much about Obama (Inaccurately in some places, as commentors point out), as about edumication, and staying in skool, it IS a very nice speech with important messages to kids.

Read the whole speech....

FROM THE ARTICLE:

"I think the White House and Obama fouled this up from the beginning, making it look much more political than necessary, and gave their critics a boatload of ammunition with which to attack them.

The speech turned out to be entirely innocuous. But by asking teachers to impress upon children the need to "help President Obama," they made it look blatantly political. They seem to have forgotten that they're the public servants, and that the people do not live to serve political masters.

As Frank Wilson puts it in another context, Americans see themselves as citizens, not subjects, with the President only of a higher rank for the temporary period of time that we put him there.

This has been incompetently handled from beginning to end, including the highly embarrassing scheduling that inadvertently excluded millions of students from the speech.

Ironically, the most controversial part of the speech may be its closing, when Obama invokes the Creator in asking God to bless America.

Will the atheist activists let that slide?"