In fact, the knee-jerk antagonism to Obama’s innocuous stay-in-school-study-hard message seems to say that the “Bachman Wing” is as indoctrinated by media as they’re allowing their kids to be. Much of the “fearless leader,” “cult of personality” rhetoric originated with talk radio and the Republican Party itself.

Still, call me a pinko, but I think equating the far-right’s a priori fears of what the president would say with your family’s concerns about corporate America’s largely ignored footprint on children legitimizes the right’s tactics, paranoia, irrationality, and hatred of not just Obama and his policies but his office.

This is the Michelle Bachman wing of the Republican Party. Was there really anything worthy of “debate” here, any more worthy than a debate about whether a little boy should be treated for cancer or left alone to die, whether being gay is a curable mental illness, and whether the earth is 5,000 years old?

Funny. Ha ha. By th’ way: I heard one conservative parent complain his kid would be ostracized if the rest of the class watched the president’s speech and he pulled his kid out of class. Funny. Ha ha. Remember that, Bubba, the next time you seek to mandate school prayer.