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  Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:00 PM | By Rachael Larimore

  It looks like President Obama managed to deliver a speech to (some of) the nation’s schoolchildren without mentioning health care (unless you count the advice to wash your hands) or otherwise touting the benefits of socialism. I hope that we can all heave a big sigh of relief and get on with more important things. Because that would be better than what happened back in 1991, when the first President Bush gave a similar address to the nation’s kids ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
  

  Filed under: Barack Obama, socialism, Obama speech to schoolkids

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