This POTUS Speaking To Kids B.S.

TW: My previous post displayed an Economist blogger's lamentation. I follow with my own. Either the Dems suck at media, the Repubs are great at media or our country is pathetic. Somehow a POTUS giving an innocuous speech to schoolchildren has morphed into socialist indoctrination. He is the POTUS for goshsakes, if he wants to speak to our schoolchildren about just about anything he should be able to. POTUSes have been doing so for decades but now it is indoctrination (I will not bother with some of the Fox video and yes I know some Dems whined in 1991 about HW Bush but it was tepid lame "why is he spending $26K to make a video for kids instead of solving unemployment" a far cry from our children cannot be exposed to socialism).

This POTUS is now assumed to have nefarious motives regardless of his actions, why is that? I really do not know. This is the whacked strain of the campaign- he hangs with terrorists (Bill Ayers), he hangs with black nationalists (Rev. Wright), he is not really American (birthers)- going- becoming the baseline for the opposition.

I just read our disgrace of Chicago columnist in the Chicago Tribune, John Kass who replaced Mike Royko years ago (Mrs. Blogger thinks he is a very little man trying to compensate). He goes on a full bore rant aligning himself against the doctrinator Obama basically calling him a communist wannabe. If a parent is so damn insecure about their own kids then look in a mirror. Given the environment to which children are exposed at the homes of many of those shrieking the loudest about this stuff, I strongly doubt a few minutes from BHO will harm them to irreparably.

Charlie Cook a respected political poll is saying things are lining up for another potential wave election- bad economy, angry/motivated opposition, unpopular war etc. He may be right which is a concerning prospect since the opposition rather than going through any kind of molting stage to become less bombastic and more moderate (as I predicted might happen) has doubled down on bombast, economic populism and cultural extremism. That would be an interesting congressional coalition, one that would have gained office by unleashing a populist streak. Putting those genies back in the bottle are easier said than done.

From NBC:
"Finally, here's one more thought about the entire controversy over Obama's education speech on Tuesday: Since the White House has said the text of the speech will be available for 24 hours before he delivers it and since they altered the lesson plan language, why is this still a controversy? The ability of the conservative media machine to generate a controversy for this White House is amazing. In fact, this is an example of a story that percolates where it becomes harder and harder for some to claim there's some knee-jerk liberal media bias. (Does anyone remember these kinds of controversies in the summer of 2001?) The ability of some conservatives to create media firestorms is still much greater than liberals these days."

Update: A teachers lamentation
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/by-patrick-appel--a-reader-writes----you-say-you-are-ignoring-the-furor-over-obamas-school-talk-because-it-is-a-fake-story.html