Obama isn't first to address students
President Obama's planned speech is to encourage kids to study and work hard.
President George H.W. Bush spoke in a broadcast to American students in 1991 about his education plan, and in 1988 President Reagan used a speech broadcast to middle schools to push for tax cuts.
But since it's President Obama, some factions claim its "indoctrination."
In fact, Jim Greer, Chairman of the Florida Republican Party and one of the leaders of the outcry, admitted on Chris Matthews "Hardball" program that he is just playing politics.
It just keeps getting more and more ridiculous.
Tom Bartlett-Svehla
Mundelein
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