Fox News has the following comments from Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who is one person to the right of the political spectrum who is beginning to see the silliness of the manufactured outrage over President Obama’s upcoming speech to school kids.
From Fox News:
Sen. Lamar Alexander, education secretary under President George H.W. Bush, said he understood “some of the concern, because, you know, people say, ‘Oh, here’s another Washington takeover.’
“But of course the president of the United States should be able to address students. And of course, parents and teachers should decide in what context,” said Alexander, R-Tenn.
He added, “If I were a teacher, I’d take advantage of it, and I’d put up Lincoln and Eisenhower and Reagan and teach about the presidency, and then I’d put up the head of North Korea and say, In that country, you go to jail if you criticize the president. In our country, you have a constitutional right to do it.”
Interesting choices of other presidents to bring up (I suspect that was his way of trying to keep his people to the far right a little happy), but the core of Alexander’s message is on the money.
