How is a link to the president's hope for bringing back middle class jobs related to not making Mark the moderator bring his big stick?  I don't see how mentioning politicians & their big ideas relates to gifted education.  The kids we're here to support are not old enough to vote and the rest of us already have our own ideas about how to vote & what's happening now.  
Now, how the education system could provide for different classes of education without being elitist, segregation, not segregation, what I mean to say is setting up certain kids to be wealthy and certain kids to be poor... That's the point to NCLB and all the resistance to letting kids shine.  That's the thinking that falsely justifies intentionally hindering advanced students & "teaching them a lesson" rather than teaching them appropriate classwork.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar