Ethics

The Obama Youth Are Coming!

By Ed Brayton

The latest hysterical overreaction from the right may be the dumbest one yet. On September 8, President Obama is going to be giving a speech to students in schools around the country. They're asking school administrators and teachers to take one hour and have their students watch that speech, where the president will speak "about persisting and succeeding in school" and will "challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning."

Wow, how....controversial. Well, it is if you're a right wing demagogue trying to find even the tiniest, most mundane fact or event to exaggerate and distort. From the standpoint of most of the students, this will just be an opportunity to take a short nap at school. From the standpoint of the loonisphere, however, it's yet another Hitler analogy.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).