GOP leader says Obama seeking young comrades

By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 p.m.

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Schoolchildren across the nation "will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president."

Republican Party of Florida, Tuesday, September 1st, 2009.

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No, Obama's speech is not going to "indoctrinate" them on "socialist" ideology.

President Barack Obama plans to speak to the nation's schoolchildren on Sept. 8. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the speech will be about "the importance of persisting and succeeding in school."

Harmeless topic? Not according to the Republican Party of Florida, which released a statement "condemning President Obama's use of taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda."

"The idea that schoolchildren across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power," said Jim Greer, party chairman, in a news release.

We looked at what Obama intends to talk about in greater detail and found no evidence that he intends to raise controversial policy issues. Read our complete item to find out why we rated this claim Pants on Fire!