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He just wanted to talk to the kids in elementary grades and give them a positive message about staying in school and working hard to achieve their goals.  Is that so bad?

Not on the surface, no.  Ordinarily, it would be fabulous to think that at some elementary school, kids were going to have a personal, in-the-flesh visit and a message from...the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES!  How cool is that?  He's someone who NO ONE can get a personal audience with unless they're pretty much a head of state, so this is great.

Bush did it, didn't he?  In fact, where was Bush the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001?  In a Sarasota elementary school reading a book to the kids.  So presidential visits to schools are not unheard of at all.

But Obama comes with certain, oh--how you say--"baggage"?  First, there's the "Wow factor" I've already mentioned.  He is POTUS, after all, so he carries with him a certain "gravitas", to recall that term of an earlier time.  All presidents do.  But BHO also brings with him a troublesome (to traditionalists) personal history and a kind of "cult following" that, while it's fading now, seems to catch people--especially kids--with their jaws open, ready to swallow whatever he tosses out.  He could tell some people to eat their own poop, and they would condemn themselves if they didn't comply.

So it's not the message he brings; it's that he is the one bringing it.  And I cannot feature that he would not do everything he thought he could to make sure his message of revolution/change/upheaval/"social and economic justice" would shine through to these kids.  

Just as I wouldn't want David Duke to address little kids--even if all he wanted to say was "Work hard, stay in school, and you can achieve what you want in life"--so, too, I'd rather not have Barack Obama swoop in and capture this audience.  He might give a simple message, but he might also want to do a bit of massaging, too--of young minds.

Sorry, I don't trust him.  He's already hired one communist and one other guy who thinks animals should be represented by lawyers against people.  Anyone who thinks that makes sense shouldn't be anywhere near other people's kids.