Just when I thought some people couldn't get any nuttier, they do. Some parents have decided they are going to keep their kids home from school on Tuesday because **gasp** the President has decided to actually talk to kids in school!! OMG!!! He's going to indoctrinate them, he's going to try to make socialists out of them!! They're not going to allow this to happen in America, by golly!! Never mind that George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan did the same thing -- but that was perfectly fine because, after all, they were white Republican Presidents! But that black Democratic President, the one they're sure is secretly a Muslim, for crying out loud, who actually used to live outside the United States at one point (and may have been born outside of it, too, they've heard), well, he's certainly not like them, and who knows what he's liable to do to indoctrinate their precious little mini-Republican kids??
I have to wonder if this would be happening if John Kerry were President instead of Barack Obama. I think not.
Unfortunately, these nutty people get validation from some off-the-wall right-wingers who have a microphone these days. But see, here's the thing these folks don't get... Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and their ilk are out to make money. If they agree with President Obama on anything, they will lose their audience ($$). So even if what Obama says makes perfect sense, they aren't about to agree with him lest they lose the knee-jerk jingoists, outright racists and those who tote guns to presidential town halls and deface posters of the President to make him look like Hitler. Without them, Rush wouldn't have had a $400 million contract, now would he? Sarah Palin wouldn't be making six figures for a friggin' speech, either.
I'm beginning to think Bill Maher is right - there are some people who just aren't smart enough to be voting.
