The speech to the nation’s children might please Obama’s ego, but this really seems like another goofy brainstormed item off of a young enthusiastic staffer’s list. —Because it overlooks the fact that this move pushes ordinary parents throughout the country who might otherwise be politically inert into actively resisting Obama and the Dem. party by extension. Those parents will talk to each other about taking a “sick day” for their children. (And you think most children will be grief-struck at the sudden holiday?) Those families will look around and see they are not alone or powerless. Obama is inadvertently provoking another mass unorganized opposition to appear like that which emerged during the August townhall meetings. This is not wise politically for the Democrat party’s future, but oh well.
““Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”—Josef Stalin
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.”—Karl Marx”
Well, there you have it.