Obama tells OSU grads to reject the Founding Fathers’ voices

ConservativeIntel.com ^ | 5/7/13 | David Freddoso

[The Old Hoosier]

You may have missed it this weekend, but President Obama gave the commencement address at Ohio State.

Here’s the memorable line:

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…They’ll warn that tyranny’s 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.

That’s interesting, because the people who actually began this “brave and creative and unique experiment in self-rule” were kind of over-the-top anxious about protecting that experiment from tyranny "lurking just around the corner."

For example:

[bgill]

I reject hussein’s voice and about 99% on the Hill.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Are those talking points that have already been distributed? Didn’t someone else use those words, ‘tyranny’ and ‘lurking’ to mock Americans?

[Resolute Conservative]

I have nothing but open hatred for this PoS. I used to hide it well out of civility for the office but lately I cannot.

[RoosterRedux]

The Founding Fathers were warning us about an Obama.

[Made In The USA]

“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…They’ll warn that tyranny’s always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices..”

Seriously Barry?! A Government that confiscates our earnings and pisses it away isn’t tyranny? A Government that forces you to buy health insurance per their rules isn’t a tyranny? A Government that fails to protect it’s citizens (domestically and across the globe) isn’t tyranny? A Government that forces policies upon citizens that is counter to their religious beliefs isn’t tyranny? A Government that chooses to restrict your Constitutional rights, such as 2A, isn’t tyrannical?

Does this jackass actually believe the crap he’s saying?

[Inyo-Mono]

I hear you.

[NotTallTex]

If there is one universal attribute of progressives it is that they believe they are exempt from history because, in their minds, “it can’t happen here”. The Germans thought the same thing and so did the French and the Russians in the last century. If this fool thinks he (or we) are above the sins of humanity he is a bigger fool than we all thought. Reagan was right: we are always one generation away from tyranny.

[Marathoner]

I have nothing but open hatred for this PoS. I used to hide it well out of civility for the office but lately I cannot.

Same here! Just listening to Hannity a leftturd was accusing him of hating the President, which Sean was denying. Well, I do hate the man with every fiber of my being for what he's doing to this country (in addition to being an ineligible POS).

[justiceseeker93]

Ping to an excellent piece by David Freddoso explaining how Obama’s urging of the Ohio State grads to reject the voices of those who fear government tyranny is telling them to reject the wisdom of the Founding Fathers!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Lone Watie: "We thought about it for a long time, 'Endeavor to persevere.' And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."

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[Eleutheria5]

Government tyranny isn’t so bad. Don’t knock it if you haven’t tried it. I’ll be a good tyrant. Yasuh, boss. I be de bestest tyrant evuh, make all yo trains run on tahm!

[IronJack]

Obama: "Reject Founding Fathers."
Founding Fathers: "Reject Obama."

I know which one I'm going with ...

[Eleutheria5]

“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.”

The American people can rule themselves just fine. They elect a government and expect it to be their servant. It’s you who can’t be trusted, because you believe you are their master.

[potlatch]

We've had plenty of warning;

Seven years before Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth” comment to Joe the Plumber became a GOP campaign theme, the Democratic presidential candidate said in a radio interview the U.S. has suffered from a fundamentally flawed Constitution that does not mandate or allow for redistribution of wealth.

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Obama, when asked his thoughts on Prime Minister Putin’s warning that the United States should cease its march towards socialism replied, “It doesn’t matter since for all intent and purposes the US Constitution is dead”.

LINK

[Hotlanta Mike]

And he spoke at my alma mater no less...I’m disappointed they invited the fraud.

[justiceseeker93]

I recall hearing an audio of the key part of that Obama radio interview in 2001. It gives a good indication of his displeasure with the principle of the Constitution as "a charter of negative liberties," even though he admits that blacks made significant socioeconomic progress as a result of the constitutional litigation strategy of the civil rights movement.

Here is the crux of Obama's contempt for the idea of the Constitution as a protector of the citizen against government tyranny:

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be OK.

But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.

[potlatch]

[ but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf. ]

You are much more deeply informed about all this Justice. I believe the Federal Governments first duty is to protect the citizens and keep the peace. It now seems changed to ‘helping’ and the nanny stater’s imply a broad brush of what ‘help’ implies.

I mostly follow events as they happen but I honestly can’t keep up with all the court rulings from the past. Good for you that you do!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks The Old Hoosier.

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…They’ll warn that tyranny’s 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.

IOW, himself -- since he's the one who doesn't trust the people and has worked nonstop to destroy the Constitution.

[Ezekiel]

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…They’ll warn that tyranny’s always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they *I* 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.

Wow, it's like a speech right out of the garden:

Gen 3

1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made; And he said to the woman, Has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden:
2. And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die:
4. And the serpent said to the woman, surely you shall not die:
5. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil:

Compare this tree to a government EBT tree it makes a lot of sense:

6. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her; and he ate:
7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons:

Obama says, "You will be wise not to listen to the Founding Founders. Go and eat of the big government tree. You won't die."