"Obama encourages community service
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Calling public service “the essence of our liberty,’’ President Obama urged Americans yesterday to step up and volunteer in their communities.
Actually, it is the EXACT OPPOSITE:
"Free people can say "no." Free people can refuse demands for their money, time, and children. Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without the freedom to say "no." If someone demands that you do something and you can say "no" and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. If you can be forced to do something or surrender something that you do not wish to, then you are a slave. No other test need be applied" -- Michael Rivero
The president spoke at a community service forum hosted by former president George H.W. Bush at Texas A&M University. Bush was the first president to create a permanent White House office dedicated to promoting volunteerism.
Yeah, that is SOME CHANGE! Yup, since he has escalated the wars he can join daddy Bush and the son in the WAR CRIMINAL'S CLUB!
“In the end, service binds us to each other and to our community and to our country in a way that nothing else can,’’ Obama said at the forum, affiliated with the Points of Light Institute, which honors people and groups who participate in community service.
Bush first spoke of the “thousand points of light’’ in his acceptance speech at the 1988 Republican convention, using it as a metaphor for all the things Americans do, individually and in groups, to help fellow citizens.
Obama initiated a “United We Serve’’ call to service in June that culminated in a national day of service on the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“Our 44th president is absolutely right,’’ Bush said as he was introducing Obama. “There isn’t a more important time than now for us all to get involved.’’
Yeah, JOIN UP and SERVE the GLOBALIST EMPIRE!
GO DIE in WARS for OIL and ISRAEL!!!!
And here is an odd connection: Bush Award 2003
Maybe not:
"Obama promotes institute named for Kennedy
WASHINGTON - In his latest tribute to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, President Obama headlined an event last night promoting an institute being built in Boston in Kennedy’s name.
Related: Ted Kennedy Still Costing the Country
Yeah, SO MUCH for caring about MILITARY WASTE or TAXPAYER DOLLARS, 'eh, bamer?
The event at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., was for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. “In keeping with Senator Kennedy’s lifetime of public service, a major goal of the Institute will be to improve civic education in the nation and educate and inspire a new generation of active citizens and legislators,’’ a White House statement said....
To DO WHAT, fight wars?
And IS IT WORTH $20 MILLION of YOUR TAX DOLLARS in the MILITARY BUDGET, America?
Senator John F. Kerry inserted a controversial $20 million earmark for the institute into the nearly $630 billion defense appropriations bill that is before the Senate.
Couldn't get a chunk of that for help with foreclosures?
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As for Obama....
"Obama’s Well Organized Community Is Falling Apart
It’s now official—the average American is not as stupid as Washington DC Democrats and their international leftist friends thought. Their mystery messiah has already gone from hero to zero after only seven months in power, and Obama has now become a noose around the neck of every American Democrat, and every international fascist who “hoped” Obama could usher in Marxist “change.”
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