No, the goal was to prevent a propaganda speech to schoolchildren. That was accomplished. Conservatives win. Obama losses.
Good work.
However, we must always be vigilant. Now that he has done the 1st speech to kids as apolitical, we must not let our guard down for when the next attempt is made.
Nope. You've got to look beyond this "might have been" speech to the long-term political effects of the situation as it will actually play out.
The way it all rolled out, Obama was in a no-lose position.
Without protest, Obama gets to give his "Hitler youth" speech (assuming such a speech was actually ever planned -- I begin to have my doubts).
As it is, the general public will judge conservatives by their strident reactions to a speech that will almost certainly be unobjectionable.
It makes us subject to the dreaded "there they go again" tactic, which is the rather unpleasantly effective tactic of pointing out past over-reactions as a means of deflecting current opposition, however well presented.