During his speech now at the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic, President Obama just got in an ad-libbed jab at the right-wingers who are speaking out against his back-to-school speech.
Obama said he was for “an America that commits to education, because the countries that out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. And the best jobs will go to the best-educated. So we got to do a better job educating our sons and our daughters.”
He then deviated from the prepared remarks — and the crowd cheered quite passionately along with it: “And yes, I’m gonna have something to say tomorrow to our children, telling them to stay in school and work hard, ’cause that’s the right message to send.”
After the extended cheering quieted down a bit, Obama let out a brief laugh, and continued with his remarks.
