Obama's speech to students: What's the big deal?

Over the past few days I feel like I have been inundated with news stories about President's Obama's speech to students. The speech aired today, after the speech was made available last night. Since I am not in school, I didn't see it, but did catch some news bits afterwords. The main fear before the speech was made was that Obama was going to indoctrinate America's youth with liberal ideals and was making a direct appeal for change to a segment of the population that is more easily persuaded.

Now, I probably shouldn't be writing on a speech that I didn't see, but I am because the actual words are only partly important in this case. The bigger issue, as I see it, is the power/influence that media has. There was interesting note in one article about this speech, stating how Reagan and George H.W. Bush both made similar addresses to American students, Reagan actually made a direct appeal stating how taxes were bad (which I am sure really resonated to elementary age kids). I doubt that there was as big a reaction to their speeches as there was to Obama's. Now, I did not vote for Obama and thus am not seeing any real changes that he promised, I only mention this because if someone who did not even vote for him can feel comfortable with his speech, than maybe Obama's speech is not so damaging.

I think there are much more effective means for Obama/Democratic party to indoctrinate their ideals into the American public. I have seen dozens of Obama products; T-shirts, coins, posters, comic books, plates, and even children's books. These are not as powerful as one speech, but they are more accessible to more people. It is much easier to go buy a piece of Obama-Mania than to sit and watch a speech. I remember reading a children's book about President Clinton when I was young and then becoming a 'supporter' of Clinton, though in my later years I changed my opinion and now disregard ever supporting him. And it has been shown that one of the most influential aspect of child's political views is that of their parents. In so far as, that if a child is raised by two republican parents, than that child will most likely be a republican. So, really, Obama's rhetoric is not what we need to worry about for our children, what we need to worry is about is Obama as a product.