Here’s a little insight into the White House’s sanitizing of O’s schoolkid speech:

When critics lashed out at President Obama for scheduling a speech to public school students this month, accusing him of wanting to indoctrinate children to his politics, his advisers quickly scrubbed his planned comments for potentially problematic wording. They then reached out to progressive Web sites such as the Huffington Post, liberal bloggers and Democratic pundits to make their case to a friendly audience.
(As Right Jabs Continue, White House Debates a Counterpunching Strategy, Washington Post, 9/15/09)

So when someone asks “What was that fuss all about?”, tell ‘em it all got cleaned up because of the fuss! May I point out, dear readers, that I suggested this might be the case earlier?

(A big thanks to the indefatigable Glenn Reynolds, who pointed this out here.)