Obama addressed the kids yesterday about staying in school and working hard. There didn’t appear to be any calls for allegiance or propositions for socialism. In fact, the focus seemed to be on personal responsibility and hard work, values of a meritocracy, or (dare I say) capitalist democracy. Is there any chance that the pre-speech nay-sayers wishing to prevent young ears from exposure to radical ideas might take off their own blinders for a moment? I doubt it. They probably just ignored all the coverage to prevent any facts from clouding their opinions.