So now it's all over the news that everyone is up in arms that President Obama wants to address the nation's schoolchildren. And to be honest, I think everyone is getting upset for the wrong reason.
If the President of the United States wants to address the nation's schoolchildren, then he should be afforded every opportunity and every chance to do so. Additionally, it should be REQUIRED that the schoolchildren view the broadcast. I mean, seriously, just how many times in this nation's history has the sitting President wanted to address the nation's schoolchildren? I can remember two times in my lifetime, and nobody had a problem with it then.
So why do people have a problem with it now? Simple - they don't trust him. They think he's going to try to "indoctrinate" them with some kind of super-ultra-secret socialist propaganda. While I'll be the first to say that I don't like Obama, I didn't vote for him, I wouldn't EVER vote for him, and I am against just about every single thing he thinks is a good idea, in this particular instance I'm all in favor of letting him address the nation's schoolchildren.
I mean, think about it...one of two things is gonna happen: he's either gonna talk about the benefits of staying in school and do his best to motivate the kids into making something of their lives, at which point everyone who was dead-set against him speaking is gonna look like a total idiot, or he's gonna spout out the socialist propaganda that everyone is afraid he's gonna do, and then the people of the nation are going to turn on him like a pack of rabid jackals. Not even his most staunch supporters in Congress would dare put their own political careers in jeopardy by coming to his defense, not after he proves to the entire world that everything the so-called "radical conservatives" were saying about him was true after all. For all intents and purposes, it would be the end of his effectiveness as President. And honestly, I don't think the man is that stupid. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Either way, in all fairness the man deserves to be given the chance to prove someone right, and prove someone wrong. He deserves the chance to speak to the nation at any time, simply because he is the President of the United States.
And THAT, friends and neighbors, is the point that concerns me, the point that I think people are missing in all this.
For the first time that I can remember, a sitting President of the United States has such a low level of trust with the American people that they're publicly voicing their opposition to him giving a speech to schoolkids. To me, that says something...and it ain't good. Even in the last years of his presidency, people didn't express this kind of mistrust and public outrage at former President Bush, did they? Nobody may have listened to his speeches, but they didn't scream and holler at the thought of him giving them, either. The simple fact of the matter is that the office of the President of the United States has lost so much inherent trust and inherent respect in the eyes of the American people that they're in an uproar that he wants to speak to their kids.
And that says volumes to me.
As much as the Democrats and the Obamabots may want to try, you can't blame THIS one on George Bush. He ain't the President anymore, in case you didn't notice...this one belongs solely to Barack Hussein Obama, and no one else.
It saddens me to no end to see this low level of faith and trust in the office of President of the United States, and I certainly hope that Obama does something to change it.
Somehow, I don't think THIS was the "change" everyone was "hoping" for.
IHC
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