Obama's Lesson

White House Releases Text Of Obama's Speech To Students
Of course there's nothing wrong with this speech. The initial criticism the Obama Administration drew was from the lesson plan. That was wrong on two counts: First, the fact that a lesson plan even existed was illegal. Federal law expressly forbids the Secretary of Education or any officer from exercising "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system." Second is the fact that he attempted to slip in a lesson plan so ridiculously biased and indoctrinating as one that requires students to write letters to themselves asking how they can 'help the president'. It's not difficult to see how this, coming on the heels of school officials apologizing for showing Oprah and Demi Moore's 'I pledge allegiance to Obama' video, would make people a little wary.

Had he not included an illegal, self serving lesson plan from the beginning, people would perhaps be a whole lot more eager and accepting of what is, after all, a positive message. Simply another example of Obama's arrogance trumping his better judgement. Just like when he talked for 55 minutes on health care, then used the last 5 minutes of his news conference calling the Cambridge Police Dept. stupid, sabotaging his own message at the same time. Time and time again his arrogance gets in his way and prevents him from getting his own message across. A lesson that Obama seems incapable of learning.

Read the law at http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/20C48.txt