Imbecilic Support Materials Soliciting Students to Write Fantasy Letters to ‘Help’ the President

“imbecilic support materials soliciting students to write fantasy letters to ‘help’ the president (a coercive directive quickly withdrawn under pressure)”

See Sept 9, 2009 article “Too late for Obama to turn it around?” by Camille Paglia at http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/

Includes: “This column has been calling for heads to roll at the White House from the get-go. Thankfully, they do seem to be falling faster -- as witness the middle-of-the-night bum's rush given to "green jobs" czar Van Jones last week -- but there's a long way to go. An example of the provincial amateurism of current White House operations was the way the president's innocuous back-to-school pep talk got sandbagged by imbecilic support materials soliciting students to write fantasy letters to "help" the president (a coercive directive quickly withdrawn under pressure). Even worse, the entire project was stupidly scheduled to conflict with the busy opening days of class this week, when harried teachers already have their hands full. Comically, some major school districts, including New York City, were not even open yet. And this is the gang who wants to revamp national healthcare? “