Ok, it's time.  I try not to blog about politics because those of you who need to know my political views, do; and I don't want my blog turning into a political argument. 

President Obama wants to address the school children of America.  This is causing a huge uproar that's being blamed on Conservative parents freaking out becasue their guy didn't win the election. I don't think that's what the problem is.  The problem is that there are a lot of people in this country who don't trust the Obama administration. He's been called a communist, a socialist, a fascist. He wants to take over things he has no business taking over.  He associates himself with undesirable people (Reverend Wright is just one small example).  Some people see Obama as trying to take over the country and kill every right we have.  Now we learn that Obama wants to address our children.  --all of them in one big speech.

I don't think I'd have such a problem with this if it was something done during prime-time hours, when families are together and can watch the speech with their children and answer any questions they may have.  The way this is set up, he wants to address the children while they're at school and have their teachers answer any questions. And possibly have their teachers preach their political views after or before the speech.  Then there's the "assignments" the federal government has come up with that goes with the speech.  I have been told that even since yesterday the assignment has changed somewhat, and that even the speech is being revised.  Questions have been re-worded from "what can I do to help Obama meet his goals?" 

Make a commercial that plays during their cartoons that tells the kids to stay in school if it's so important that he wants to get this message out to them.  Have a prime-time address.  Hell, put the transcript of what the speech is going to say online so parents at least know what's going to be discussed.  The thinking that the president is the sole authority over everyone in this country (and that if he has something he wants to say to our children, he has every right to do so)---that thinking is WRONG. 

The Obama administration can deny all it wants that this is a ploy to indoctrinate our children, but in a way, it really is.  It's a way of showing the kids how "cool" he is--not unlike President Clinton on the Tonight Show playing his sax.  To show them that he recognizes them and their rights.  To show that he can "relate" to them and make himself seem a "friend" to them.  To possibly without their realizing it, turn their way of thinking around... you know, while they're young and impressionable.

Yes, other presidents have spoken at schools before.  SPOKEN AT SCHOOLS, not spoken from his office on TV to the schools.  I don't know why it's different, but to me it's different.  I would be as concerned about this if right in the middle of his Iraq war, President Bush wanted to do a nationwide speech to the children.  And every liberal out there would be up in arms about it as much as the conservative parents are with this. 

To the President of the United States and any who follow you... you want to address my children, you do it THROUGH ME, not around me.  You do it in a controlled environment (my home), not in the government controlled classroom.  You tell me in ADVANCE what you want my children to know and I'll pick and choose what they get to know.  These are MY kids.  Not the United States of America's kids.  The Obama administration thinks the people who attend the Town Hall meetings with the Tea Party are out of hand, and that just deals with the government wanting to take over our healthcare.  You start making people think you want to take over their children and you're really going to have an uproar on your hands.  One on a scale you can't even imagine.

Leave my kids alone.  Leave my kids out of your political agenda.  Go to work.  Do your job to run the country the way the citizens of it advise you do to (you're here to REPRESENT US, not to control us).  Will my kids get to watch Obama's speech?  Maybe.  After I watch it and make sure it's acceptable.  I'm sorry, but being President of the United States does not give you the right to have access to my children anytime you see the need.  Not my kids.