Okay, seriously?!? Whether you like Obama or not, The office of the president should be extended the respect it deserves. Obama urging kids to stay in school because they could grow up to be president is not a "political indoctrination" type of message.

Three Points:
1st: The president deserves the benefit of doubt. If his message is a generic stay in school, no harm no foul....

2nd: If his message does contain some political undertones, wouldn't it be a chance for parent and child to have a discussion?

3rd: Perspective please. Grade school kids are too young to grasp political agendas, the majority of high school kids will zone out in the first five minutes of political speech.

Bottom line: Much ado about nothing.....

Obama speech to students draws conservative ire

B-b-b-b-b-but he'll be teaching them about socialism and reading from the Koran and he'll want them to register their guns so the GOVERNMENT can confiscate them.

It'd never happen to a white man.

Hey Sagger Sharpton.... Take that race baiting crap down the road. Obama's half white and half black. We can hate his white side if we like.......

People are stupid.

to anyone out there who's right wing, here we go.
You are fucking stupid if you think there's some freaking conspiracy to take over the world with this kind of speech.
If Obama had all this evil power, I wish to God he'd have used it for health reform.
Disagree with his policies? Fine.
Take your kids out of school to avoid a speech? That's your right, but you're a fucking moron.

What the hell could he possibly say to indoctrinate kids? Are parents that insecure about their beliefs and how they raise their kids that one speech (most likely a boring one to kids) will turn them into raging communists?
I only wish.

Fuck this country.

*moves to Greenland*

Just stay here, texas is about to become it's own country.

You think I wanna stay on an island with a buncha asshole Texans?

HOW DARE Y..eh, I agree.

Defending W's daddy giving a remarkably similar speech back in '91:

Then-Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., defended the speech, asking, "Why is it political for the president of the United States to discuss education?"

Heck, for that matter, anyone remember what W was doing on September 11.....

before looking scared shitless, he was reading to kids in a school.

We'll soon know if his indoctrination stuff works.... The proof will be in the pudding..... If Jello sales are up in Michigan,something's afoul!

Maybe we can get the Oklahoman Native Americans to annex dallas. Then we'd be able to gamble and do peyote and be friends with colored folks.

That'd be cool. On a map, we'd look like Oklahoma's ballsack.

but we'd smell better.

And trade shit for fire water.

People are people.

I hate people.

We're not too fond of you either, ya know.

Why should it be?

i don't understand. I agree that Obama is ruining our economy, but he's our president and the kids need to hear a good motivation speech from him. It will be some needed good news from him.

I think they should air it in prime time, and if you choose to watch it with your children, then do it, and discuss.

We are different colors

viva la raza!

dude, it was only gonna be on cspan and some gay ass shit. it wasn't even a big deal until the right fucking wing nutjobs inserted their paranoia into it.

Discuss what? Staying in school? There is nothing to discuss. There are NO politics involved.

I am just at a complete loss as to why anyone has a problem with the PRESIDENT of the USA talking to kids about the importance of staying in school.

because he asked them to write him a letter about how they could help him.

oh, well in that case, it all makes sense.

I wrote to President Reagan about the importance of the jellybean issue back in the day. Changed my life.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

See, look how desperate he's getting. He's even asking little kids to bail him out. How much money is this dude going to ask for?

*BLAM!*

DA DUH DA! DA DUH DA! Let the boys be boys.

I can't believe he wants to spread his socialist agenda by telling kids that their school work is their OWN responsibility.

Well, the conservative viewpoint is "fuck around all you want, your daddy will get you a job later."

and don't talk to niggers.

axed

I actually agree with that part.

But he'll also tell them if they don't do their school work, the government will just make the smart kids do it for them because every one is entitled to play time/no homework.