Pres. Obamas' Address to School Children

Skeet,
You said you had seen yesterday the preliminary of Pres Obama's speech to school children scheduled for delivery today. It sounded fine and innocent, like his other speeches on many issues, but you are still concerned.
Right on! Pres. Obama is a master at manipulating groups. He uses a standard strategy with special speaking techniques of volume control, time spacing, changing countenance, etc., at which he is very good.
The strategy is the dangerous part. In initial address to groups, the message must be light, encouraging, and containing no controversial elements. This is what I expected from Pres. Obama, and which you Skeet confirm having heard as a preliminary.
Once confidence of the audience has been established, such as in school children and their parents, the message starts to deviate in subsequent speeches. The audience is exposed to things that the speaker wants the audience to hear rather than what the audience wants to hear. But, confidence has previously been established and the message changes are done in such a subtle manner that they can easily be accepted and digested.
Subsequent speeches build the strategy by continuing to bring in controversial matters for acceptance.
Two things then happen. Intellectually responsible adults, such as parents, start to realize they have been hoodwinked, but it is too late to do anything about it. The uninitiated, such as children and idiots, never realize what has happened and accept the total package.
There is one sure way to keep your children from being brainwashed. Do not allow even a beginning address by a person who you have known from previous experience to have philosophies dangerously different from your own. This is not fundamentally different than the process that most parents of teenagers use in insisting that they have personally met and conversed with their teenagers' friends.