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The idea that a parent can shield his child from everything he doesn't trust strikes me not as irrational, but more as naive. I only had a few years experience at the parenting thing, but I can tell you that no matter the effort, other influences will get through. The best way to deal with them is to instill values, morals, ethics into your son or daughter so that when he or she is faced with an opinion you may not agree with, he or she can make the determination independently as to whether the opinion is something they agree with or not.
Anyway, there's really nothing specifically in the speech which anyone can claim is in any way bad, so I can't imagine a reasonable justification for being offended by it.
As for it being political: everything the president does is going to be seen as political. Pundits tear into President Obama for eating hamburgers, for christ's sake. What we, as learned and objective people, should strive to do is to separate ourselves from the bullshit. Is this the good kind of political or the bad kind of political?
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