Obama's Speech to Kids

Mr. Obama's prepared remarks to the children of the public schools are posted on the whitehouse website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/

Here are some of the excerpts that stuck out to me:

"...I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year." (who are you mr president to tell students what is expected of them?)

"I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve." (is it the government's responsibility?)

You’ll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy. (it occurs to me that "more fair" and "more free" flies in the face of his proposed socialist policies and "building new companies" goes against the Democrat school of thought completely)

If you don’t do that – if you quit on school – you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country. (this is a lot of pressure to put on a 1st grader let alone a kid in high school!)

And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you – don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. (what?)

Well, it didn't talk about serving the president or his political agenda specifically. However, his philosophy of government still comes through loud and clear. "The government has a responsibility to you." "You have a responsibility to your country" This is what I take from all this: He is setting up the government as being all important and all responsible for people. Esentially making people think that they are dependent upon the government. This is the socialist philosophy all hard core democrats have.

Overall I would say this: I don't really think that a speech like this was necessary or well advised. Due to his liberal philosophies and socialistic ideology he is a very political figure who really doesn't have any right to do this. He is in no position to be giving our kids the "papa to child" advice he is trying to give here. If you listen to the whole speech, you will notice that he gives the impression that he has authority over what our kids do. This is not the role of our president. This may be the role of a dictator in a communist country, but not in the free America we created over 200 years ago. At the very least, advice like this would be much more well suited coming from a role model who was non political.