What's so wrong about this?

The radical right is at it again my friends ... and now they won ...

Our President wanted to speak to ALL public school children about the importance of education and about doing well in school. Well, anti-Obama people around America spoke up. They said that it was almost socialistic that something like this would happen. Glenn Beck suggested that parents keep their kids home from school. People in Texas spoke up, saying that they don't want kids seeing this.

Newsflash ... Reagan spoke to school children after the Space Shuttle Columbus disaster. He also spoke to school students about the dangers of drugs ...

So, with that said, what is so wrong with our President wanting to give more or less a pep-talk to our youth?

Well, news broke late this morning from the Washington Times that the Education Department has backed off from this nationwide speech, set for this coming Tuesday.

Another newsflash to those people who are scared that this nation is supposedly going to socialism ... this country is in need of change. That is why we elected Obama. It takes time for change to occur. It does not happen overnight. The fear that people are trying to put on us (death panels, czar's acting beyond their means, etc) has to stop. As I mentioned before, and I will repeat until it sticks ... If you don't have anything nice to say, then be quiet. You had your time for power, it's time for us to fix it.

Trying to motivate students to do better is a right of not only teachers, parents and family members, but everyone. Again, I repeat ... what was so wrong with this idea?

We are moving forward in America ... not backwards. Just like the school bus, it's time to either get on, or get off. No stopping progress now.

-- Matt