Assessing Obama's Speech to Schoolkids

Neal McCluskey, Associate Director of the Cato Institutes Center for Educational Freedom and author of Feds in the Classroom, evaluates the troubling content of President Obamas speech to school students. McCluskey and Cato Vice President Gene Healy, author of The Cult of the Presidency, also dissect the manner in which the president is being presented to schoolchildren.

This video was produced by Austin Bragg ( http://www.twitter.com/habragg ) and Caleb Brown ( http://www.twitter.com/cobrown ).

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[Scoforever]

Education should remain independent of the federal government. The problem is that most teachers are liberal and unionised. I would support his speech if not for that.  Many children were shown an Obama advert in which people pledged to serve the president. HE SERVES YOU, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

[XCritonX]

Government brainwashing propaganda is always presented by the rulers as harmless. From Hitler to Stalin to Chavez to Obama they always know that a direct attack will be deflected. So they create sideways attacks on freedom that are proposed as "for your own good". Is it really such a bad thing? Its just a little mental poison. It wont hurt much. Its good for you!

Beware the thin wedge of the would be dictators!

[motorolarules]

@MikeLV

YOU, are not going to have a job long if that is what you think you are going to teach. Unless you are home schooling

[RodCornholio]

Outstandingly good video.

[Betty5150]

Real lies that Obama has given? Ok, how about Iraq? He quickly shifted his idea from what was it, 3 months, to 3 years? Ok. I'll buy that. He know's well, that he could of pulled out of Iraq with in 3 months, and it would have been the right thing. Then there's him being a what was it, constitutional student? That's either a blatant lie or a major contradiction, since he supported and voted for the Patriot act.

Obama is a politician. Politicians do lie.

[dachickenman]

Not true.

[TheSteelGeneral]

it's so nice that repubs demonstrate why they LOST the election ......

[TheSteelGeneral]

and that shows how lazy you are. calling me a troll does not dissolve your need to show how the Cato institute has been critical of Bush. For every Dan Mitchell Cato had 5 bush ass kissers, and you know it.

but gimme a link, make me laugh.

[CountArtha]

Oh, never mind - I read your other posts and you're a troll looking for trouble.

[CountArtha]

Watch anything with Dan Mitchell. He has nothing good to say about Bush's spending habits.

[TheSteelGeneral]

wow, repubes are sooooooooo gullible, i guess you really believe that. Gimme an example of their criticisms of bush then. A video please. you can't. Because they licked his arse.

[TheSteelGeneral]

total bull shit. you didn't do anything of the sort, you didn't mention this gap AT ALL.

You implied that Obama using teleprompters is PROOF that he doesn't write his own speeches.

At least he doesn't have an earphone in telling him what to say, like bush ....

And I would dare you to give examples of this "gap of intelligence" if it wasn't so obvious you're so STUPID AND A MORON....

You can't distinguish a gap from an Yvy League institution to save your life.