Actually if I was a kid back in elementary school I wouldn’t mind the speech thing the first week of school. It would be a free hour out of class where you didn’t have to do anything and there wouldn’t be any homework. And you could sit in the back and goof off. Maybe break some pencils in pencil fights, Flip 3-way quarters with the lunch money to try to double it up, Catch up with buddies I hadn’t seen all summer, Check out the new girls..

You can’t get mesmerized if you don’t listen.

Bit I do hope Obama tells all the kids to stay away from cigarettes.