Obama Complaints Welcomed But Not On This Issue

After a controversial week at the White House, President Barack Obama delivered his formal address to American students as scheduled. In the days leading up to this speech there has been a national uproar about the speech. Assorted critics and Obama opponents have swarmed the media with  exaggerated complaints and  oblivious grievances that have ranged from calling the speech a part of a Communist agenda to comparing it to actions of Sadaam Hussein.

 

Aside from pretentious triviality and recreational buffoonery, I don't understand why anyone would express such mindless disapproval of a virtually harmless act. In a time when our economy is still floundering, our country is nowhere close to being on the same page with health care, and we still have soldiers dying every week overseas, It is thoroughly unreasonable for politicians and citizens to waste their constitutional voice on a merely passable matter.

As for the speech itself, I took the time to read the script on the White House website and view speech highlights. And not surprisingly, I, as a still impressionable 19-year old, am not brainwashed and am not plotting to spark a Red Party uprising. Something tells me that the K-12 audience of which maybe 5% are registered voters aren't going to use the governmental voices that they don't yet have, and the educated political mentality that they have yet to develop to band together and start an anti-democratic regime in America. In fact, the target audience of this speech is basically all dependents whose number one influences mentally, emotionally, and psychologically are likely their parents/guardians who they see every day in person as opposed to a half hour of seeing Obama on the television. That is without accounting for the lackluster attention span of most children in this age group. Even if the President was spraying these innocent pupils with subliminal propaganda, they probably didn't even process half of it.

 

With that settled, what else could be wrong with this speech. Did his personal anecdotes and friendly introduction relate to his audience too much? Were the success stories of impoverished and sick children across America too inspiring? Was his message of taking responsibility and staying in school too reasonable? Were his points on education's role in the occupational framework of society too honest? It's time for American's to take a message from today's Obama speech and be responsible. We need to be responsible for the voice we are so lucky to have in the United States and use it in reasonable manner.