Protect kids from - the President?

It's one thing to disagree with the President. Although you were labeled as unAmerican between 9/11/01-1/19/09 for disagreeing with things like tax cuts for the wealthy, warrantless domestic spying, massive bank bailouts with no repayment expectation, torture to extract false confessions, and insulting long-standing allies, those days are behind us. It is once again OK to say that you do not agree with the President of the United States. That's basically a pillar of liberalism - defending the right of someone to say something that you disagree with.

However, it is an altogether different mindset to disagree regardless of content. We've heard the political goal of doing anything and everything to insure that the President fails, in order to achieve political points. But would conservatives really willingly harm America to achieve their goal of failure?

Here it is. President Obama wants to tell kids to stay in school to get a good education, following in the footsteps of George H.W. Bush who did the exact same thing. The astounding knee-jerk reaction from the right is to oppose this - actually pull kids out of school to protest the "you should stay in school" message. Once you strip away the ludicrous "he's brainwashing our children" rhetoric, how can this action possibly make sense?

Or could it be that these right-wing parents are not afraid that Obama is somehow going to indoctrinate their kids, but they're afraid that his rational and common sense address will shatter the false image of Obama that they're trying to portray?

mediamatters.org/columns/200909030002
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/04/oreilly-encouraged-an-oba_n_277553.html
www.dailykostv.com/w/002100

Sadly, it's not just the propagandists and wingnut fringe spreading this drivel. It's the Republican Party itself
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/02/republican-party-florida/republican-party-florida-says-obama-will-indoctrin/?new

One of their arguments is that no US President has ever addressed schoolchildren before. Really, that's what they're saying. Apparently, they've forgotten what George W. Bush was doing when terrorists were attacking America.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rO3F6mZUaE

Have we really reached a point in our society that just because the other guy wins, we throw a tantrum and demand that our kids not be "indoctrinated" by his evil message of "work hard and stay in school"?