Posted on 01/14/2009 4:55:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President-elect Barack Obama asked the nation Wednesday to make a "renewed commitment" to serving their communities, saying his presidency allows a possibility for national unity through active participation, and warning of big crowds and lots of walking on his Inauguration Day.
Mr. Obama, who takes the oath of office Tuesday at noon, said Americans can visit the inaugural committee's new online service tool at USAService.org to host events in their neighborhoods.
He detailed his plans to join his wife, Michelle Obama, and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill Biden, on Martin Luther King Day Monday to volunteer around Washington.
"I am asking you to join us in that same spirit of service to others -- no matter where you live," he said in a four-minute video address released Wednesday on YouTube.
"To honor the legacy of a man who lived his life as a servant to others, I will ask all Americans to make a renewed commitment to serving their communities and their country," he said. "You don't have to wear a uniform. You don't have to be a community organizer. You don't even have to run for president. At a time when there is so much need, we are blessed with endless ways to contribute something to the life of this nation."
Mr. Obama asked that people view it as more than one day of service, and instead as a "lasting commitment to make better the lives of your fellow Americans -- a commitment that must endure beyond one day, or even one presidency."
"At this moment of great challenge and great change, I am asking you to play your part; to roll up your sleeves and join in the work of remaking this nation," he said.
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Yeah Obama, I am gonna serve you..let me just stand up and give you the middle finger salute
The Pontificator in Chief speaks again...
As soon as you do it Bambi, I will do it. Oh wait, I am doing it, when will YOU start?
Sure thing, as long as Obama makes a commitment to expel the illegal foreigners flooding my community first.
Chris Matthews just felt that tingle again.......
Maybe he can build some homes that are now falling apart like Carter did.
—PP
Serve this, Huessin Obama.
Something tells me the Obamas do not plan on getting their hands dirty.
I don’t need this fraud to tell me to serve my community.
Yup, prove that I have someone worthy of serving first.
I’ll get my twigs together to sweep the sidewalks ....
And exactly how do we need to ‘remake the nation’? Surly you don’t expect people to follow Kenya’s or Indonesia’s lead, do you?
We also don’t need Obammunism.
Now about that Constitution that keeps getting in you Communists way ...
Next thing you know him and Charitable Joe Biden will be asking to give to the poor. Of course since we already serve and donate to charity in amounts that make Biden and Obama look like the pikers they are (before Ohit it rich with his books of course) I don’t see where we will be following their lead any time soon.
Sorry dude, but I just can not bring myself to comply with Directive 10-289.
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