When I was young, about a week before school started, without fail I would get a rash on my face. Oh, how tense I used to be about the uncertainty -- year after year after year.
President Obama will address the nation's school children Tuesday in a speech promoting education, ambition, and perseverance. But the issue has been hijacked by the right-wing lunatic fringe.
These Obama-hating conservatives and their dumbed-down, myopic philosophies appeal to the lowest common-denominator of the Republican Party, which is why it got trounced in the last election.
That's really what it's all about -- Barack Obama's political enemies don't actually accept him as president. They consider his presidency some kind of sham, regardless of the overwhelming majority he won.
President Obama is planning to deliver a nationally-televised speech on education to students across the country next Tuesday, the Washington Post rep...