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Cato Video • September 8, 2009 

# Gene Healy and Neal McCluskey analyze Obama’s speech to kids. 

[Neal McCluskey](/people/neal-mccluskey), Associate Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom and author of *[Feds in the Classroom](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441355)*, evaluates the troubling content of President Obama’s speech to school students. McCluskey and Cato Vice President [Gene Healy](/people/gene-healy), author of [*The Cult of the Presidency*](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=&pid=1441430), also dissect the manner in which the president is being presented to schoolchildren. 

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##### [Gene Healy](/people/gene-healy)

Former Senior Vice President for Policy, Cato Institute

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##### [Neal McCluskey](/people/neal-mccluskey)

Former Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute