Obama talks education to students, conservatives get up in arms

Innovation? Personal responsibility? Patriotism? Yup, those sure are socialist talking points.

If you haven't heard yet, a back-to-school speech given by President Obama last week has spurred some negative comments from conservatives that detected a thinly veiled push towards socialism in Obama's call for students to stay in school.

During his inspiring speech at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA, President Obama urged students to work hard and take personal responsibility for their futures. He said the future of American depended on their success, and that no matter the circumstances, they all had something to offer.

To drive home his point, he offered personal stories of three young adults who overcame adversity to forge a path towards higher education, including one who suffered brain cancer and numerous treatments that affected his memory, forcing him to work even harder to stay on track in school.

In Obama's words, "There is no excuse for not trying," he told the students. "This isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future," the President said.

In the days to follow, what was the bigoted conservative reaction, you ask?

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH last week, before the text of the speech was released.

"I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now."

You know, I thought conservatives promoted individual accomplishment.

So why are they lambasting this overtly conservative speech?

Well, I have to conclude they are all a rotten bunch of evil racist bigots. Sorry, but I can't think of any other explanation.

Former President George H.W. Bush delivered a nationally televised speech to students from a Washington school in fall 1991, encouraging them to say no to drugs and work hard. Conservatives didn't have a problem with that.

They didn't have a problem with Bush Jr. magically reading "My Pet Goat" upside down to second-graders while the World Trade Center Towers crumbled on 9/11 either, but go figure.

Source: CNN.com