political blunder by Obama opponents

Opposing Obama's speech to the children may have been warranted, but even if so, it was politically stupid.

The odds of Obama saying something inappropriate were small but not infinitesimal.

By attacking the speech before he gave it, Obama's opponents looked bad. And they missed an op for Obama to put his foot in his mouth-- and prospectively, to trash his own Presidency.

Think about it. If he said something that was propaganda-like, he would have been crushed for it. Most people despise when people try to take advantage of their children.

Next time: let "it" happen and if he goes goofball, then take care of (political) business.

Here's Neal Boortz at TownHall.com on the topic:

Many students won’t hear the speech because of a rather severe miscalculation from the right. Republican screaming and wailing made it sound as if Hugo Chavez was flying in via Aeroflot to speak to our poor, innocent, unsuspecting angels. School districts reacted…and millions of school kids will sit around picking their noses at noon instead of watching the speech.

So now the speech is out. As of yesterday afternoon you could read it on the Internet. I’ve read it, and if there is anything in there that I wouldn’t want my child to have heard from a U.S. President, I certainly couldn’t find it.

Egad! The speech is innocuous! What are we going to do now? I know! We’ll all claim that Obama changed the speech after the uproar from the right! Well, duhhhhhh. Of course he did! Why wouldn’t he! Well, actually he really didn’t have to change it. It probably wasn’t written by the time conservative boxers bunched up en masse. So Obama’s speechwriters took their cue from the right and made the speech essentially bulletproof from the get-go. One sharp mind in a Republican strategy session could have seen this one coming from the next galaxy....

Republicans look like fools. People now more reluctant to listen to conservative complaints about Obama. TeamObama must have loved this one. Talk about a hanging curveball...