The President of the United States has no Constitutional authority to speak to school children, or try to influence their education by any means. It is not the President’s job to interfere with education, period!!! Trying to influence children without an objectionable format, where parents can dispute or rebut any remarks made by the president, should be enough to make any parent upset. Tell this usurper he has done enough damage to this country and he doesn’t need to try manipulating your kids too. Better yet, take your kids out of school that day in protest.
Report ErrorThe President’s constitutional powers are explicit. They include the “executive Power.” They include being “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States” and a few more listed in the Constitution, including preserving and protecting the Constitution. They do not include addressing schoolchildren.
If the President were to live up to his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution, he would request that Congress repeal all its laws regarding education. Section 8 of Article I lists the powers of Congress. Education is not on that list. So when the President addresses schoolchildren, he breaks his oath in several ways. He does not have that power, and he affirms and solidifies a power assumed by Congress that Congress does not have. The President is failing in his sworn duty. Those who think that the President’s speech is helpfully teaching civics are mistaken. His speech is conveying and confirming anti-civics and anti-Constitutional lessons.
The President is a political leader. He is not in office to be an educator. His duties are clearly laid out, and they do not include educating children. By the same token, the President is not the parent of all these children. He is not their teacher. He is not their religious leader. The reason for these boundaries is so that political figures do not use their power and influence to dominate our social lives.
… More (Author: Michael S. Rozeff Source: lewrockwell.com Date: 09.06.2009)
