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U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process. _________________________________________

So Kids Please Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain!

Ignore Him I Say!!!

1 posted on 05/05/2013 4:15:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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Obama To Ohio State Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny

Freudian slip for sure.


31 posted on 05/05/2013 4:45:33 PM PDT by True Grit
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More important than what government can do for us is what it can do to us.


32 posted on 05/05/2013 4:46:03 PM PDT by windsorknot
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They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner.

I guess Zero knows kids today are not taught the real American history, so they can't know that this is exactly what our Founding Fathers, those who fought the American Revolution and wrote the DofI and COTUS believed.

Tyranny is always right around the corner.

33 posted on 05/05/2013 4:47:43 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Reagan said “government is the problem”.

Two almost three decades later we see that government is now a menace.


37 posted on 05/05/2013 5:01:56 PM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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You will now be forced to buy a product (health insurance) whether you want to or not and if you don’t you will pay a penalty or go to jail. But there is no government tyranny. /s


38 posted on 05/05/2013 5:02:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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Hey O-Bow-MA, We are not a democracy!!!!!


40 posted on 05/05/2013 5:28:53 PM PDT by Forrestfire (("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
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We’re not a democracy, we’re a republic, Mr. Constitutional Lawyer Community Organizer. If you can’t get that right, how’d you get on the Harvard Law Review besides being Halfrican, you moron?

}:-)4


41 posted on 05/05/2013 5:30:42 PM PDT by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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So apparently, some folks in government believe that the Ohio State graduating class is out to get them.


43 posted on 05/05/2013 5:34:22 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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LOL! Exactly my first thought too!
“BAD TOTO!!”


44 posted on 05/05/2013 5:35:49 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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Obama To Ohio State Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny

So President Obama told Americans they should reject the voices the wwords of Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, The US Constitution etc. etc.


46 posted on 05/05/2013 5:38:04 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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these arent the droids you are looking for


47 posted on 05/05/2013 5:39:40 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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SELF RULE?
It is self governance choom boy.
Nobody should ever RULE over the United States of America.
A Free people is not RULED.


48 posted on 05/05/2013 5:40:45 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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We don't have a democracy Mr. President, we have a representative republic. Those kids should forfeit their diploma's for not setting the man straight.
50 posted on 05/05/2013 5:51:03 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn that all our times have come, but now they’re gone. Seasons don’t fear the government, nor do the wind, the sun and the rain. We can be like they are. Don’t fear the government. Because we will be able to fly, and I’m your man.

Valentine is done, here but now they’re gone. Barack and Michelle live forever in eternity. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because 40,000 men and women are coming everyday. Love of two is one. Came the last night of sadness and it was clear they couldn’t go on, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. They looked backward and said goodbye. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process. Don’t fear the government. Become like they are.


52 posted on 05/05/2013 5:59:34 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either.

What do you mean, "we," kemosabe?

60 posted on 05/05/2013 6:15:45 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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Because we understand that this democracy is ours

The s.o.b. knows damn well its is still a Republic not a democracy and if he has his way it will becomes a socialist democracy, right up until it becomes tyranny.

61 posted on 05/05/2013 6:20:34 PM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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dont boop if you cant poop barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash


67 posted on 05/05/2013 6:49:22 PM PDT by bigheadfred (dont boop if you cant poop barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
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“Voices”

I ask for the pro’s to step in. El Presidente’ is El Loco’


69 posted on 05/05/2013 6:51:34 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems>>>>>>>>>>>>

Obama is a fascist by every known historical definition.
You bet he is a tyrrant. He hates the american people and has no reluctance in punishing the American people in order to reach his political goals. Obama is a hateful president.
His fascism is evident.

Good read about Obama’s fascist roots:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


71 posted on 05/05/2013 7:00:36 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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             Tyrannis Delenda Est

72 posted on 05/05/2013 7:04:21 PM PDT by tomkat ( the friend of an enemy is an enemy)
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