The president of the United States will urge the nation's youth to work hard in school, set educational goals and take responsibility for their learning.
Unless you're getting a paycheck from the Republican Party or for trashing Barack Obama, there's no reason to see anything sinister about this.
If anything, Obama should be thanked for using his bully pulpit and popularity with youth to communicate the value of education and persistence.
The right-wing backlash speaks volumes about Obama's detractors. The ranters are wound up after a season of red-faced anger, lies about health care and guns displayed at public events.
They go beyond the pale, though, by saying the nation's children need protection from our president's words.
What do they fear? That in a 15-minute speech Obama can hypnotize the nation's youth into forgetting everything their parents ever taught them and ... what? Do their homework?
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