Guess Who Might Not Be Coming To School?

Posted: September 4th, 2009 | Filed under: Politics, Ruminations | 3 Comments »

The President of the United States, that’s who.

Call me old fashioned. Call me a diehard red, white and blue patriot. Call me out of touch. Whatever.

But I know it’s gotta be a good thing when the duly elected President of the United States wants to talk to the nation’s kids about staying in school, and studying and achieving and setting goals and reaching them.

But . . . Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Seems as if some zealots whose political persuasions are different from his don’t want the President of the United States to talk to their kids or your kids in school. He might, you know, pollute their minds or something. Try to convince them about some issue of the day. You know, brainwash them into thinking universal health care for everybody is a good thing, or some such foolishness.

No matter that Bush the Elder did it when he was President of the United States. No matter than Ronnie Reagan did it when he was President of the United States. No matter that Bush the Younger appealed to the nation’s children to support his war when he was President of the United States.

We don’t want that current guy to do it. You know, the President of the United States of America.

It is the latest sign yet that America is deeply divided politically. And that there’s a lot of misinformation being disseminated and digested in this Age of Overinformation.

And, one guy’s opinion, it is yet another sign that racism is cunning, sly and continues to insinuate itself in the subtlest of ways.

You think there would be such an outcry over the President’s upcoming address to the country’s school kids, if he weren’t, you know, uh . . . different? One wag’s opinion — mine — is that this uproar wouldn’t have happened even for Bill Clinton, who was really loathed by a lot of folks. Because, you know, Bill might be a scumbag and philanderer, but, gosh, he’s . . . one of us.

The school administrators who are bowing to the outrageous demands that some people’s kids shouldn’t be forced to listen to the President of the United States ought to be fired immediately for incompetence.

What in the world have we done to ourselves? We aren’t even willing anymore to listen and hear a diversity of ideas. We aren’t willing to let the duly elected President of the United States give a fatherly pep talk to our kids in school.

It’s not a good thing.

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