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Compare what the Right Wing says about Obama's "propaganda" speech to America's school children and its purpose to indoctrinate our young people into his socialist agenda with the reality. I have read the speech. There is nothing political in it. Does anybody have a brain anymore? Stay in school. Fulfill your responsibilities to yourself and your country. We can't have this kind of propaganda in Shelby County, can we!

Sept. 7, 2009
Obama's Speech to Students: Prepared Text
Remarks by the President to Be Delivered To Students on the First Day of School
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
(CBS) President Obama's address to the nation's schoolchildren has been called disruptive and uninivited by Minnesota's Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty. Florida Republican Party chair Jim Greer alleged that Mr. Obama is seeking to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda." Despite the criticism over what the White House has characterized as a motivational speech promoting the value of education, on "Face the Nation" Sunday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told CBS News chief Washington correspondent and anchor Bob Schieffer, "At the end of the day, if the president motivates one C-student to become a B-student or one student who is thinking about dropping out to stay in school and take their education seriously, it's all worth it." And, Mr. Obama is not the first president to address students nationwide. In 1991, President George H.W. Bush gave a speech to schoolchildren across the country. "Every time you walk through that classroom door, make it your mission to get a good education. Don't do it just because your parents, or even the President, tells you. Do it for yourselves. Do it for your future," Mr. Bush told the children. The text of President Obama's 2,438-word speech (see below), which will be given on Tuesday, doesn't appear to make any political waves, despite warnings from one conservative pundit that the speech would demonstrate a desire to use schoolchildren as "guinea pigs and as junior lobbyists for their social liberal agenda." In the speech, Mr. Obama asks schoolchildren to stay in school and fulfill their responsibilities to themselves and the country.