Posted on 08/26/2009 9:59:50 AM PDT by AJKauf
Some might find the following a benignly public-spirited initiative. In April, the White House signed legislation that established September 11 as an “annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance.” A regretfully bipartisan bill, the measure was passed as part of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, and was promoted as a means to “encourage and facilitate community service across the country.”
Yet the reality behind this legislation is quite different. As Matthew Vadum reported at the American Spectator on Monday:
"The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry."
What’s happened, according to Vadum’s account, is that an assortment of hard-line radical activists and leftist community shakedown organizations have transformed Senator Kennedy’s arguably noble vision of shared commitment to national service into an alternative September 11 agenda seeking to eradicate the significance of the day as one of remembrance, mourning, and patriotic mobilization. In other words, the blame-America contingents at the base of the Democratic Party — with the endorsement of Barack Obama, the president of the United States — are hijacking our generation’s day of infamy, turning it into a “socialist holiday of community service.”
Vadum’s smoking gun is a “White House-sponsored teleconference” on August 11, in which literally the entire array of America-bashing left-wing special interests attacked 9/11 as a “day of fear” and promised to change the widely-accepted meaning of 9/11 from solemn commemoration to a gangster-rap celebration of agitation and social justice...
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I vote political hijacking. The only ones they want to “serve” are themselves.
Exactly!
When was the last time you found a ‘progressive’ giving their own money to charity?
This ‘culture war’ has reached new heights!
It will become the birthday of the “Civilian Army, as well funded, as big and as well armed as the countries military”.
too late - September 11th is already Patriots Day
ignore the noise coming out of the Outhouse
There is a national day of service, called MLK Day.
I vote political hijacking and I refuse to participate in any other than memorials for the dead.
Ok National Day of Service...more like a day for limousine liberals to stage photo ops of them pretending to pick up garbage surrounded by inner city black kids...
obammy and his mammy jammers just invented another black holiday.
Ok National Day of Service...more like a day for limousine liberals to stage photo ops of them pretending to pick up garbage surrounded by inner city black kids...”
Ok National Day of Service...more like a day for limousine liberals to stage photo ops of them pretending to pick up garbage surrounded by inner city black kids doing nothing... Fixed it!
I am opposed to a National Day of Service. I don’t care what day they hold it on.
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