Why I Do want the President speaking to school children

Lead Story yesterday in the "Paper of Record" for NJ - President Obama will go on TV to speak to the nation's school children, as a role model, as national cheerleader, as an example of accomplishment and beacon of optimism.  Well now, who can disagree with that?

Yes, your right, its me (irrespective of today's blog title, but more on this accurate statement later).  The Star Ledger tried to convince us that the President's Talk will be so saccharin that no responsible parent could possibly object to its content.  Indeed, telling students to study hard and stay in school is a laudable message, but when given by a person who will never have any individual contact with school children other than his own two daughters, it becomes a forgettable 10 minute interlude that will be forgotten 10 minutes later at recess or nap time.

So, why the bombastic opposition in this forum?  First, what here is not so presented? Secondly, the President is not paid to be a"cheerleader" in this most local of venues.  Whether "Johny"does 20 minutes or 45 minutes of homework daily is the ultimate non-presidential concern.  He has one job commensurate with the stature of his High Office- keep the NATION safe, which vital national security duty, for an apt example, is inexorably tied to the peaceable resolution of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Accordingly, President Obama should go on state TV and radio in every arab country to speak to literally millions of children being indoctrinated daily to wage war on the Nation of Israel to return these "occupied lands" to their rightful arab owners.

The President can deliver a critically important message to inspire and motivate these young, impressionable minds that "Land for Peace" is a fraud, unless and until arab children learn that jewish children have the right to a peaceable life, Israel is a legitimate nation who citizens are not pigs, blood suckers nor terrorists (as now instructed in most arab schools and mosques).

When the President proclaims this desperately needed school lesson, that no Palestinian state will get US support until arab children support the existence of the Nation of Israel, he will perform the job he was hired to do, and it is not to be the School Board President in any and every US community.  I say: let the President be President, to work now and every day on national issues he can have actually positively affect to the great benefit of all the world's kids.