Oh where, oh where to even begin after the nausea settles (I could hear his voice in my head as I read it, yuck!). The contradictions astound me! First of all the Founding Fathers did NOT sit in classrooms like we have today - being particularly touchy on the issue of forced schooling and dumbing down kids I find it insulting to pretend our flawed education system has been around that long or was that successful at producing intelligent adults with critical thinking skills. But here is the real cincher, it takes hard work, dedication and perseverance to be successful (I didn't want to torture myself or you with the long winded quotes it would have taken to put that down) no matter what your circumstance, but "I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn." So, lay out goals and work hard and make sure the government is able to give the schools more money so that kids can have what they need to learn and everyone will be successful.
One more little thing, isn't it interesting that he feels it necessary to let kids know chances are they will not be sucessful "through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star." How sad that the President thinks we have fallen so far that those are the kind of goals kids look to - being entertainers. Kids don't want to be doctors or lawyers or police officers or teachers (they must be encouraged by the president to pursue those goals), they want to be entertainers. Hmm, either the President is out of touch with the majority of kids in our country who actually want to have careers out of the entertainment industry or he is telling kids they should want to be entertainers or at least pay attention to them because "not everyone can be successful" at such careers. I am rather out of touch with the tv watching majority, so maybe kids are that bad, but by acknowledging entertainment as a valid career option in the same speech in which he is calling for new leaders and inventors is insulting. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it was just...yuck!
Don't even get me started on him asking God to bless America, although from his point of view I'm sure it was more like Sincerely at the bottom of a letter. Though I don't think that makes things better.
Yeah, there are no hidden messages here, it is just flowers and rainbows and holding hands.
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