Not sure what an elected leader is doing speaking to school kids, in the first place, and can do without the father-of-the-nation subtext. Also, the timing suggests he’s using the kids as the set up for tomorrow.
I’m hoping for more from Obama, if it’s part of a healthcare payoff it’s cool, but just in isolation it’s a bit off.
Never trust a basketball player. 
I work in a somewhat conservative school (I’m in Texas so that’s kind of redundant) and the feedback that I got from some of the Republican teachers is that it was a pretty darn good speech and exactly what our kids needed.
It was good to hear that support from “the other side”. The kids loved it. Made them feel special, it did. 
You know who else Stalin? HITLER!!!
Hey, 9/11’s coming up in a couple days!
Remember how Bush milked the shit out of ‘the wisdom of innocent children’ over that?
It about made me wretch, and gave me my first real inkling of what a consumate asshole had made it into the white house.
Here’s some pix from down memory lane: 9/11 children
Dude, it’s a “welcome back to school message” near the beginning of the school year to encourage students to work hard. Really, that’s it. Obama’s already made it clear that his three main priorities are energy, health care, and education, so encouraging students to stay in school in a 15-minute address isn’t out of the blue.
Plus we’ve got about 8 pages here of discussing that exact point.
In other news, what’s the deal with Obama’s school speech? What does being president have to do with kids’ grades?
You know, I’m shocked there wasn’t a screaming uproar like this in July when Obama threw out the first pitch of the game.
“He’s a wussy liberal, so he’s going to throw it underhand, and our children will want to emulate him, and that commie bastard will ruin baseball forever!”
or
“Why is he wasting his time going to baseball games when he’s supposed to be getting us out of this recession?”
It’d make about as much sense.
I understand that plans are already being laid for Spring, when he plans to make a pitch for socialized baseball.
Seems to be working OK for football.
I hear the Boston Bolsheviks are gonna have a pretty good team, but expect competition from the Tampa Bay Trotskyists. The Atlanta Anarchists haven’t quite got their team together…
Naturally, when those teams run out the clock at the end of the game, it is known as “stallin’”.
Ted Stalin from Accounting?
(Can anyone get this obscure reference?)
No, Chris Stalin in glass wares and chandeliers.