A brief comment on yesterday’s presidential back-to-school speech, and yet another “controversy” ginned up by right-wing activists and eagerly blown out of proportion by the media. Yes, it was absurd for the wingnuts to oppose a speech about doing well in school, but I’d go most liberal commentators one better and say this: It is Obama’s prerogative to articulate his political vision to the nation’s students. Not impose it, but articulate it. His reference to fighting poverty and homelessness and discrimination was therefore superb and well within bounds. Liberal? Yes. The president is a liberal and has every right to address the nation as a liberal. Electoral landslide, remember? It’s called the marketplace of ideas, and may the best ideas win.
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