Obama's Hot Air Balloons

So the President's address to our nation's students has come to pass.  They are not humming The Internationale while marching in lockstep under the Hope and Change banner, so maybe there was nothing to worry about after all?  Not so fast...

This was a defeat for the Obama Nation. Did conservatives yanking their kids out of school look a little hysterical? Yes, but that lesson plan was creepy, and conservative agitation forced the Department of Education to throw out Chairman Wow's Little Red Book moment .

Did you really believe Propaganda Minister Gibbs when he told us, in that chuckling manner of his, that this was never meant to be anything more than a pep talk? And then the teleprompter spoke: Stay in school, you are our future, bla bla bla...

Chalk this up as another conservative victory.

OK for me, but not for thee

Byron York at The Washington Examiner takes us back to 1991, when Democrats launched hearings and investigations over President George H.W. Bush's speech to school children.

The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported.

A Democratic congress thrashed the president:

"The hearing this morning is to really examine the expenditure of $26,750 of the Department of Education funds to produce and televise an appearance by President Bush at Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington, DC," Ford began.

Democratic concerns about media manipulation and a misspent government funds seem almost quaint now. Hope and Change has been blaring from national media outlets for more than a year, and $26,000 wouldn't even make a respectable political bribe nowadays.

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Community Organizin'
My kids don't need preached to by the federal government. They have dreams and they see education as the path to a bright future.

Sadly, there are many children in this country who have no such dreams. Asking them to imagine going to college and becoming a scientist is like asking them to imagine a trip to Mars. These youngsters do need to hear messages like this, especially from a president they idolize.

This is the mistake this community organizing administration makes: They survey the American landscape and see the great unwashed, just waiting for the enlightened Philosopher Kings to provide hope and change. Well, many of us are doing fine on our own, thanks. We go to work, our kids go to school, and we make do with what we've got.

We know how to get out of the way of a hurricane because we have not yet been benumbed by government "assistance," so spare us the sermons.