Well..... yes. But the key word there is "was," as in "might have been."
It's not the speech or approach he'll actually use, though ... and thus I suspect that uproar will probably hurt us more than it helped.
If we were truly diabolical (and we should probably learn to become so), we would have waited until after the speech actually happened.
Here was the problem — it wasn’t the speech but the material that wanted teacher’s to use including reading two books about Obama. That is where the uproar came from and the DOE had to pull back their materials. The speech was going to aim at students helping with the Obama agenda like hybrid vehicles, community organizing, etc. That’s what got everyone up in arms.
The original speech of an hour in length with all the material that was pure liberal propaganda is what made parents upset. That material was pure leftist they wanted the students to use in their classroom.