Liberal Critics Say Conservative President Exploits Space Disaster to Woo Children to His Harmful Views
That's the January 29, 1986 headline I imagined as I observed the ruckus over Barack Obama's innocuous, well-meaning and mildly uplifting address to U.S. schoolkids today. I refer, of course, to the Challenger space shuttle catastrophe, observed on television by millions of American children from their classrooms in part because schoolteacher Christa McCauliffe was part of the crew.