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I tend to stay out of politics whenever possible.  I have never felt as if I had enough of a knowledge base to make an educated and informed opinion or argument, and therefore, try to keep my mouth shut overall.

But to quote last night’s Mos Def show (thank you, Lamont): “LAAAWWWWWDAMERCY!”

What the hell is wrong with people these days?

The president wanted to make an address to students nationwide, stressing the importance of their educations and inspiring them to achieve their goals.  Now, I might be just entering my thirties, but I can’t ever recall a time while I was in school where this opportunity was afforded.  I’m kind of jealous.  It’s a pretty cool concept which, to me, demonstrates just how connected to the people our current President is.

Enter Texas, Virginia, Georgia….Woburn, MA even….and suddenly the President has an agenda.  He wants to impose his socialist ideals on our youth.  Our children are better off staying home from school and missing a day’s worth of education because our nation’s President decided it’s worth 18 minutes to tell these kids what I bet a lot of their own parents never do –  that yes, you can set your goals high and achieve them.  You do not have to lay down and die because of your environment.

Wow.   Is it me or should Obama be pretty frickin’ pissed off right now?  Did a lot of people suddenly forget that this man is our President? The President of the United States of America? The man against whom threats on his life, jokingly or not, will land you in a secret service prison?

If the President wishes to talk to your kids, let him.   You let Nancy Reagan tell your kids to say no to drugs, right? You let Bill Clinton be….well…Bill Clinton.  Perhaps the select group of oh-so-highly-offended Republicans are merely shaking in their boots that, not only is someone going to encourage their children to be more than their parents told them they could be, but he also happens to be a black man, who a lot of them perhaps didn’t vote for.  What right does he have to talk to MY child?

Because he’s the fucking President.  There, I said it.

This has nothing to do with socialist agenda or healthcare reform.  This is a large population of historically-white folk who truly don’t think Obama ‘has the right’ to address their children.

Our nation’s youth are losing their way, for the most part, and I, for one, am utterly saddened that when a person in power makes an attempt to lead our youth down the path of education, his motives are questioned and people’s true nature is revealed.

Today there are a lot of people who should simply be ashamed of themselves.

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