President Obama’s Speech to School Children [LIVE STREAM]

September 8th, 2009 admin

President Obama’s highly anticipated speech to school children takes place today via an Internet broadcast on Whitehouse.gov. The transcript of the President’s remarks was released yesterday , so there shouldn’t be any surprises. As we noted, Obama highlights the founders of Facebook , Twitter , and Google as examples of the type of people students should strive to be like.


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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