Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren

Staying in school for your country

By Arthur Weinreb
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Barack Obama’s speech to schoolchildren earlier this week was generally well received. Whatever Obama’s initial intentions were, the politics had been edited out by the time the speech was delivered. No doubt Barack Obama wanted to use the speech to push his far left agenda on the kids, especially his plans for socialized healthcare.

One comment that came across as strange was the president’s telling the nation’s youth that they should stay in school “for their countryâ€