While the controversy will continue to rage about President Barack Obama’s decision to address school children.

I am stunned not by the obvious attempt to look great or indoctrinate young people. Don’t get me wrong all those things are important and clearly this is his attempt to reach young people and their voting parents with an “important message” of stay in school and work hard. As long as he is mentioning stuff, clean your room should be added to the list.

Yes, it is a waste of instructional time etc…

But what bothers me is trying to figure out this question.

Does Barack Obama believe he has the power to change the culture of  students by giving a speech?

There is no doubt that Presidents can be inspirational. John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and others have proved that,.

In some cases I think a half hour from Sponge Bob (my son picked him over Obama) or a song from Adam Lambert (my daughter says he is cooll) would be more effective with dealing with a culture than a speech by a man that had to overcome graduating from such horrible schools like Columbia and Harvard or even the private schools in Hawaii or Indonesia he attended before college.

Years ago, in West Covina we once had a councilman that always wanted to speak at graduation to show what you could become as a graduate. It never happened, because we really weren’t that impressed. More disturbing was what he thought of himself. He thought just his story alone could change the lives of all those within earshot.

A person can make a difference and words can make a difference, but it is the people who think that all they have to do is draw attention to themselves to make a difference that bothers me. Actually, kind of scares me. Megalomania is scary in a councilman, but a President?

Reminds me of part of a song I’ve heard once or twice, courtesy of Megadeth (New album coming out next week!)

You take a mortal man
And put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a ‘roll
A ‘roll, a ‘roll

Just like the pied piper
Led rats through the streets
We dance like Marionettes
Swaying to the symphony of destruction

Well at least heads aren’t rolling yet. We will have to wait for government rationed healthcare for that.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.