I'll just jump to the bottom here and suggest that George Bush has had more influence on text books than Obama. Texas has the worst policies for tampering with textbooks because of the fundamentalist idiots who keep get appointed to the board that oversees text books. And Texas buys so many that publishers subject school children around the country to the Texas standards rather than write a set for Texas and another for everyone else. This board keeps trying to change or eliminate parts of the history of Texas, the U.S. and the world. And when you look at the way they want to eviscerate science texts, well, no one does it better.

Obama's speech is welcome in our household, but I don't know if my son will hear it at school.

SRS