Obama invades your school!

About the responses to my last post: Look, I tend to disagree often with Sen. Harry Reid, but you people who seem qualified to judge his level of religious devotion scare me. Wherever you go to church, I don’t want to be there.
But now it’s onto the issue of the day. I suppose I’ll part ways with many conservatives on this one, too, but do you really believe that President Obama’s message to schoolchildren next week will be an exercise in political propaganda? Really?
I agree with conservative blogger Allahpundit: “I doubt he’s going to come up with such a corker next week that kids will be planning their lives around it. Remember, this is the same guy who can’t sell universal health care, the virtual raison d’etre of the Democratic Party these days, to the Blue Dogs.”
Remember, this nation has a big problem with Africa-American students, particularly males, and education. If Obama can inspire some of them to stay in school, that’s great.
Remember also that Ronald Reagan spoke to schoolchildren and broached subjects such as gun control. Why are we afraid of subjecting our children to ideas that may differ from our own?
I remember the fall of 1968. I had incredibly heated arguments with a classmate about the upcoming election. I was for Nixon and he was for Humphrey. But the truth was, my parents were for Nixon and his were for Humphrey. We were just parroting what we heard at home.
The point? Parents are the biggest influences in their child’s life. If you have honest and open discussions at home, you shouldn’t be afraid of what the president of the United States may tell your kid at school.
Controversies like these do nothing but make conservatives look loony.