Living On Obama's Collective Farm

IBD ^ | June 2, 2008

[Kaslin]

Decision '08: In a commencement speech at Wesleyan University, Barack Obama advised graduates not to pursue the American dream of success. Ivy League graduates who live in big homes can be selfish, you know.

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President Kennedy once spoke of a rising tide that would lift all boats. Obama wants us to pull into shore and tie them to a dock.

Worse than that, a disturbing pattern of rhetoric indicates he will not only counsel a draconian lifestyle, but also mandate it.

The man who made over $4 million last year, who lives in a $1.65 million house and who probably doesn't get his great suits off the rack, advised graduates: "You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should. But I hope you don't." I got mine.

He hopes you don't walk off the job and do something greedy like finding a way to economically retrieve the 2 trillion barrels of oil locked up in North American shale, lowering fuel and transportation costs, and helping America achieve energy independence.

Don't be another Bill Gates and amass a fortune making people more productive and, uh, successful in their daily lives and giving your countrymen a standard of living the world will envy. Exchange your cap and gown for sackcloth and ashes. Leave your possessions behind and come follow Obama.

"Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs betrays a poverty of ambition," he opined.

[2ndDivisionVet]

See my tagline...

[the invisib1e hand]

The Audacity of Malaise.

[dandiegirl]

I’m sure that the parents that finally finished paying for this education are encouraging their graduates to just get by and don’t go for the American dream of success and yes, perhaps, wealth.-NOT

[dandiegirl]

I’m sure that the parents that finally finished paying for this education are encouraging their graduates to just get by and don’t go for the American dream of success and yes, perhaps, wealth.-NOT

[Travis McGee]

"Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.

Our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation." ~~Barack Obama

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." ~~Karl Marx

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed." ~~Michelle Obama, 2008

[Travis McGee]

I’ve been posting the above quotes for a few days. Nice to see the IBD is lurking on FR.

From the IBD:

Shame on us for being selfish and buying that SUV built by an autoworker trying to fulfill his family’s immediate wants and needs. “Our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation,” he said. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”

So far, Obama’s idea of hope and change sounds an awful lot like the Marxian vision of taking from each according to his ability and giving to each according to his needs. Though we’re already the most charitable and giving nation in history, Obama doesn’t seem to think volunteerism is part of it.

In a speech in California, wife Michelle, who has made a small fortune in the “helping industry,” said: “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone. . . . Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual — uninvolved, uninformed.”

[rabscuttle385]

"Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs betrays a poverty of ambition," he opined.

Do as I say and not as I do.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I got mine.

[Misterioso]

Do as I say and not as I do.

Does that mean that if the speaker was a homeless person you would agree him?

[Misterioso]

Agree “with” him. OOOOps.

[Uncle Ivan]

Uninformed?

Sounds like your typical Obama supporter.

[JimC214]

Sounds like mandatory indoctrination.

[JACKRUSSELL]