Who is he fooling. College kids are going to get tossed under the campaign bus along with "Buy American" workers.

Later in the 2012 Campaign: "Here's the deal, Based upon my agreement with the Republican Leadership, your student loan interest rate is only increasing by 50% next year."

What a piece of crap speech.

Is there any group this man will not pander too? When will he be hitting the pre-school circuit?

I read the transcript. A far better speech would have been to outline for the kids the work, saving and investing habits of the super successful. Pick a few rags to riches examples and hold them up as heroes. He noted he saw a lot of cell phones and other stuff in the audience. How about a quick calculation of how much money they are poring down the drain while waiting for someone to 'give' them an education. How disengenuous to equate an increased interest rate to a tax increase. Hopefully one of the social studies teachers at W

mr obama has done nothing for syria, darfur or the cartels in mexico, has wasted 5 trillion dollars, and blames congress for protecting the us currency itself....college kids today can blame the cost of education on college professors and beuracracy, the idiot state governments...and banks who ruin money everyday....the people with wealth and power have let the future generations down for the last 30 years...dont listen to them and dont waste your vote on them...if you dont understand as a citizen it is you responsibility to get it right, not fall for ignorant selfish retoric that has filled children and ignorant parents for generations...mr obama is a problem, and he caters to ignorant emotional persons whos vote has brought this country to where it is now.

Who is trying to kid? They can't belive that crap!

Can you say Hypocrite? The Democrats were the ones that increased the rate in the first place. This man has been a nightmare since he entered office and it just keeps getting worse and worse.

education bubble

He's the best president this country has had since JFK..

Increasing educations costs are another challenge no politician will be able to resolve. But anything thing that increases the financial burden of higher education comes at the great cost of a lesser educated country. The president's determined position on this issue is needed to support the education that is so important to the future of the country.

What a brilliant speech,by a brilliant being.He's the best leader of our generation,and a road model for many kids that wants to make contribution in society tomorrow.Only loosers castigate him because they don't know what they want in life.

In times of hardships there is always a strong leader to lead and who better to lead than Obama the Guy is great give props when is due and stop hating all the damn time

Ben Glass: you are a total do-maas.

A man of true honor and respect holds his people close to his heart.I bet if mitt mommy was president during this period,we will be in a depression right now.romney is very short sighted with a blured vision for a great country as this.mr obama was.sent be God.to lead.us through this hard time.and he has done.just.that.he has laid a new foundation for a better america and a better middleclass.he more than desrves a second term.

So Senator Obama did not vote for the Student Loan as he too busy running for President. I believe House of Reps did pass a bill to keep student loan interest rates low and the accounted for the change in revenue - I believe the Senate has not taken up the bill yet and the President has threatened to VETO because it is not written how he likes it ...

As much as I think President Obama is destroying America with his socialist polices - I think the biggest threat to the US is the press' lack of being objective. President Obama or Vice President Biden can say anything and they are never challenged or shown in error. Like this story fails to mention Reps did pass a bill; GM is NOT the largest company and they have not paid their TARP bailout funds back - nor does any of the liberal press seem to be willing to challenge the President on his unemployment numbers. One factor in the decrease in unemployment is the number of people who stopped looking for a job.

Dems controlled house and senate lowered the interest rate. Now, a Repub controlled house and a Repub "almost" senate majority are working tirelessly to make students graduate with a mountain debt owned to Mitt Romney and his buddies

The best thing about this speech is that he is telling kids to participate in their government and know that the difference between struggling and success is strength. It is also important that he stressed the importance of reviving America's dead majors because we do suck at these fields in comparison to those who don't have even a fifth of what is available over here. Mostly, he emphasizes the need to stop any hindrance to threatens success.

Repubs work very hard to give tax breaks to multi-millionaires and billionaires... which is awesome in my opinion. But, they work just as much to deny or deprive any struggling and middle-class families any break. Who exactly are the Repub lawmakers working for? Perhaps the question should be who they are working against.

I can't believe the garbage I am reading here. Do a little research people, Obama is one of the worst presidents we have had in a long time and that's saying a lot with two Bush's in recent history. His entire platform is even though my policies have done nothing to improve the economy and the countries situation please give me four more years, I swear it will work next time. That's not even mentioning the shredding of the constitution that you hypocritical liberals were jumping all over Bush for. The Obama administration has signed in laws that completely trump the patriot act in destruction of your civil liberties. The worst part is he ran on the platform of upholding the constitution and was very critical of the patriot act prior to being elected. He is a liar, a shill for the international banks and he is leading our country to fascism at an ever increasing pace.

Agree with scy. Obama lets the Tea Party creeps push him farther and farther to the right. All he wants to do is be re-elected so he can run his mouth for 4 more years and hold events featuring the military and law enforcement, the only people who he apparently relates to, when he's not vacationing somewhere.

Did the students receive academic credit for attending this assembly? Did it count as education time? Did they learn to cut through rhetoric, to investigate claims of truth, to recognize bias when they see it?

Could be a real learning experience -- but I'd bet my next paycheck it wasn't.

The Dems have developed a foolproof strategy. They attach huge pork to all their bills, come up with harmful ways to pay for it, and give each one some outrageously patriotic name that sounds fantastic. That means that Republicans can't vote for it and the Dems can say, "Look, they wouldn't vote for the Save America Now Act," or whatever they've called it.
This bill includes 2plus billion for minority colleges, and other pork and pays for the lost income and new pork by imposing huge new taxes on certain businesses. Compare this to the Lilly Ledbetter "Fair Pay" Act with all it's pork when all that was needed was to change the statute of limitations of a previous act.
They purposely drafted this new bill to play their political game instead of drafting one that all could agree upon. I hope the public is informed enough to recognize the games they're playing.