Obama needs to be filtered

Yesterday, I wrote an op ed which appeared on FoxNews.com titled KEEP POLITICS OUT OF THE CLASSROOM and expressed concern about the scheduled Presidential address to America's students.

Thanks to many like-minded Americans and a few rather nasty and graphic liberals, I realize I touched a nerve.

Though we saw the problematic lesson plan, we don't really know what Obama will say. We can anticipate that a President who will go to churches to seek support for his agenda -- particularly something like a government take-over of our health care system -- will not hesitate to use America's public school students.

We have already seen the White House and Dept of Education modify the accompanying materials for teachers.

Let's hope that on Sept 8, the President sticks to "study hard, stay in school, come to school on time and prepared" message.

But with a President who has Czars who have been self-proclaimed Marxists, anarchists and more, it is appropriate to be vigilant. Most American parents don't want our chlidren used to further an extremist agenda.

I hope schools decide to preview the speech -- it need not be delivered live as the President requests. Let's see what he has to say and hope that all the concern over his address has encouraged the President and his team to stick to an appropriate subject matter and don't divert from the teleprompter. We'll see, but considering what he has been proposing, this speech requires a filter.

Read my op ed here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/09/03/peggy-venable-obama-speech-school-children/

And I welcome the comments, even the mean-spirited ones. It reminds the rest of us what we are up against.

Peggy Venable