Obama Urges Ohio State Graduates to Get Out and Vote, ‘Eagerly and Often’

Cybercast News Service` ^ | May 6, 2013 | Susan Jones

[Olog-hai]

“I don’t pretend to have all the answers,” President Obama told Ohio State students at their commencement on Sunday. “I’m not going to offer some grand theory on a beautiful day like this—you guys all have celebrating to do. I’m not going to get partisan, either, because that’s not what citizenship is about.”

President Obama, stressing the theme of “citizenship,” said he would ask two things from the class of 2013—“to participate and to persevere. After all, your democracy does not function without your active participation. At a bare minimum, that means voting, eagerly and often.” …

“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; some of these same voices also doing their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices,” the president told the graduates. “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. We have never been a people who place all of our faith in government to solve our problems; we shouldn’t want to. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either.” …

[Sarah Barracuda]

I cant wait for this disgusting donkey turd to get IMPEACHED..the sooner the better

[glyptol]

I thought this was a republic not a democracy. What did I miss?

Guess I should have gone to Harvard. You know, to get my head straight.

[jmacusa]

That was always the motto in NorthJersey in the days of Frank “I am the law Hauge in Jersey City; “Vote early and often’’.