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Obama Wants You
IBD Editorials ^ | July 31, 2008

Posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:49 PM PDT by Kaslin

Election '08: Barack Obama calls it "Universal Voluntary Public Service." We call it a plan for national involuntary servitude. Kennedy asked us what we could do for our country. Obama has ways to make us volunteer.


Sen. Obama's call to public service is quite different from JFK's. JFK knew America was already a nation of givers and volunteers, perhaps the most charitable and altruistic nation on Earth. Entities such as the Peace Corps would give Americans an outlet for their kindness and generosity, an opportunity to share what the freest nation on Earth had given them. Obama will force you to share.

Obama's Orwellian use of the words "universal" and "voluntary" together is an indicator of an antithesis to capitalist society deeply rooted in his socialist associations, education and training. Indeed, in 1996, when he ran for an Illinois state Senate seat, one of his first endorsements was from the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America.

On the surface, his plan looks just like typical bureaucratic program growth. He wants to expand Americorps to 250,000 slots and double the size of the Peace Corps. He'll create a Clean Energy Corps to plant trees and otherwise save the Earth. It's how Obama plans to fill those slots that's worrisome.

Announcing his plan July 2 at the University of Colorado, he said: "We will ask Americans to serve. We will create new opportunities to serve. And we will direct that service to our most pressing national challenges." He will make us an offer we can't refuse.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; fascism; nobama2008; obama; slavery; socialism; unpaidlabor

1 posted on 07/31/2008 5:18:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

JFK asked young women what they would DO for their President...


2 posted on 07/31/2008 5:19:39 PM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: Kaslin
We will ask Americans to serve.

Obama Wants You

Wish in one hand, sh!t in the other Obama and see which one fills first.

3 posted on 07/31/2008 5:27:08 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Kaslin

Scary stuff.

IBD is doing great work exposing Obama’s marxist agenda!


4 posted on 07/31/2008 5:28:49 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Kaslin

Post-socialists set up neighborhood operations to enforce central dictates. PC stuff on steroids with a gun. Brainwashed kids are the logical starting point.


5 posted on 07/31/2008 5:32:19 PM PDT by return to sender
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To: penelopesire

Oh Boy, Mao Style, Labor and Re-Education Camps.


6 posted on 07/31/2008 5:33:15 PM PDT by Rodm (Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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To: weegee

Obama also will create his own military, stronger and better than what we have now. /S


7 posted on 07/31/2008 5:35:25 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: Kaslin

This man must never become POTUS.

8 posted on 07/31/2008 5:36:32 PM PDT by PilloryHillary
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To: Kaslin

The haloed one talks of collective salvation. I don’t know what brand of Christianity he’s really had, but nowhere in my years of practicing, imperfectly, my Catholicism have I ever heard of collective salvation. My place in heaven or hell will be the result of, as we say in the Confetior,my thoughts, my words, what I have done and what I have failed to do. Nothing in my experience as a Christian has ever pointed in the direction of salvation being collective. It’s not Christianity but it might represent another way of life that begins with a C.


9 posted on 07/31/2008 5:38:23 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (Freedom is purchased not with gold, but with steel.)
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To: PilloryHillary

And he will not


10 posted on 07/31/2008 5:43:44 PM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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To: Kaslin

For your consideration, I submit some information from our history. Please consider these when thinking about what the next “100 days” will end up being:

Freedom Domain
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Emergency_of_March_9%2C_1933

The Great Foreclosure
http://www.maxexchange.com/ybj/chapter15.htm

A Democrat Case Study In ‘Do As I Say, Not As I Do’
http://republican.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.Print&Blog_id=6ce7ae71-2e02-4abe-ac65-1ec40fd09990&suppresslayouts=true

I was specifically looking for the failure of the US currency and indebtedness of the US to foreign interests, which occurred roughly around the time of WW I and was the impetus for FDR’s socialist WPA, etc. programs, including Social Security. Those days are gone, but the history is there. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find, and sometimes takes you to the odd, wingnut-style site just to find some facts.

Pax Americana or European Socialist country. Either way, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.


11 posted on 07/31/2008 5:46:38 PM PDT by combat_boots (She lives! 22 weeks, 9.5 inches. Go, baby, go!)
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To: Kaslin
"SACRIFICE FOR ALL"
12 posted on 07/31/2008 8:11:00 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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To: Kaslin

No thanks, kid. Try Cuba.


13 posted on 07/31/2008 8:19:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 ... Olympics for murdering regimes. ... Beijing '08)
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To: penelopesire
I've been impressed with the articles they're churning out.

"make you volunteer" - precious!


14 posted on 07/31/2008 9:05:35 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: the anti-liberal

Fantastic piece of modern art, it should be displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York./Just Asking - seoul62......


15 posted on 07/31/2008 9:13:55 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: JACKRUSSELL
Every time I see this I think 'he looks like a Vulcan.'

Remember Spock was born of different race parents? There was some episode where he was supposed to connect with his mother's side of himself by overcoming logic through answering questions (how do you feel?).

Obambi is the mirror opposite of that - all feelings, no logic.

16 posted on 07/31/2008 9:32:57 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: seoul62

Somehow I doubt they’d accept it...


17 posted on 07/31/2008 9:34:03 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: Kaslin
So he doesn't ask the idle. He doesn't ask the welfare crowd. He doesn't ask the indigent.

He asks (actually tells, because you know it will really be forced) the students to "volunteer".

18 posted on 07/31/2008 9:52:30 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Lizavetta

How does it go? “From each, their abilities; to each, their needs”?


19 posted on 07/31/2008 10:02:44 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: the anti-liberal

If you go in costume or drag, they just might./Just Asking - seoul62........


20 posted on 08/01/2008 4:05:02 AM PDT by seoul62
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