President Obama to Read My Pet Schools to America's Students on Tuesday, September 8.

"Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants [...] I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt."

Specific Answers -- September 5, 2009

You may remember My Pet Goat. President Bush read this book to a class of third graders on September 11, 2001. Then he was told about the attack on the first tower. He kept on reading the book to the class.

Obama will deliver one speech for children ages 5 to 18. It must communicate effectively -- even inspirationally -- to kindergarten students and legal adults taking Advanced Placement, college-level classes.

Can you imagine Karl Rove telling Bush to read My Pet Goat to a combined class of kindergarteners and calculus students? They called Rove "Bush's brain." What should we call the dimwit who dreamed up this scheme?

I have this vision of how the speech will begin.

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