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President Obama Speaks to School Children

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Today, the President delivered his heavily scrutinized speech to the nation’s school children as they headed back to school.

See the text of the President’s speech here.

The President’s speech did not delve into policy issues and was a mostly bland message telling children to follow their dreams and stay in school. It therefore seems that the Right’s outrage over the event was misplaced, or at the very least misguided. That said, it is very similar to the situation in 1991 when then President George H.W. Bush addressed school children as well. As reported in the Washington Examiner, “Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.”

Additionally, the National Education Association released a statement that stated they "Cannot endorse a president who spends $26,000 of taxpayers' money on a staged media event at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, D.C. -- while cutting school lunch funds for our neediest youngsters."

What exactly was in former President Bush’s speech that would get people so riled up? Nothing really. That speech left out policy and sent the message to children that it was important to stay in school and not to use drugs.

See the text of Bush’s 1991 speech here.

The NEA, while blasting this speech, has come out in full support of a very similar speech by President Obama. The hypocrisy is glaring. It seems that politics as usual will remain politics as usual, and even though both parties might do the same thing, it is only wrong when they are out of power.

-Robert Flanagan
www.FlanaganReport.com


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