President Barack Obama delivered a speech to students around the country at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, on Sept. 8, 2009, which was also the first school day after summer break. Conservative critics spent much of the last week fear mongering about socialist propaganda and decrying Obama’s access to millions of malleable minds. Obama told students to work hard, stay in school and take responsibility of their own education. Check out TPM’s coverage of this non-controversy.
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