Obama speech aftermath

I just remembered that I forgot to post this last week:

I haven't read anything yet today about it, but I know that Maddie watched the speech live yesterday. And they didn't discuss it afterwards, but went back to their normal science lesson. Come to think of it, there wasn't a whole lot to discuss. It was a pep talk geared toward the 11+ crowd. The littles didn't view it nor do I think they would have walked away with much from it. Maddie did say that she wished Obama had said her name, as in: "Maddie, who had to live with 3 sisters and yet she is the now the founder of this environment saving thing". verbatim. (I never realized that living with siblings was such a trying circumstance to overcome, but apparently to an 11 year old girl, it is?)

Nikki had to watch it in one of her classes & there was debate afterward that leaned into politics. I guess anyone can read politics into anything, if they really want to. Someone said Obama was spoiling little kids' dreams by telling them they wouldn't be professional athletes -like telling them there is no Santa. Someone else said that he was excluding the blue collar jobs that are necessary for the country to function by encouraging kids to want to be scientists & doctors, etc. I say, thankfully he didn't mention that there's a place for everyone in society to be a "worker" -can you imagine the field day the conservative right would have with a "socialist" statement like that!? Poo poo.

As it was, the speech was merely a nationally televised, beginning of school year rally encouraging kids to do their best. Who better to deliver this message to our children than the president of the US. Pep talks from the president shouldn't be reserved for graduation commencements only.