There’s a very good chance that it was bureaucrat who was overly eager and saw nothing wrong with doing what the President asks, if only because it’s the simplest answer and is demonstrated as a serious possibility because of what other supporters have done.

There’s very little incentive for the White House to have made an overtly political speech given that he desperately needs political capital for his health care speech. His numbers are dropping fast, so a call for children to advance his agenda would likely cost him middle America support he needs. It would seem he has just now figured out that letting the freaks put the public face on his agenda is generally a bad thing.

One question is, was it wasted by him because some nefarious plot to subvert the minds of youth was discovered, or by some bureaucratic functionary who, as you said, didn’t see any problem because he/she was already on board?