Posted on 05/05/2013 4:15:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup
U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: 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 do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. 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 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. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
When Tim Geithner told Beijing students in June 2009 that the USA is protecting the dollar, they laughed. Hussein essentially says “I am not a Tyrant” at Ohio State and students did what? Did the article leave out something? Are they as dumb as the Germans were in the late 1930’s? Can we get a retake from the Texas A&M Aggies to compare?
I loathe the day the maggot was hatched in Kenya.
My oldest decided to skip this event because of the speaker.
I’m as proud of her for graduating as I am her taking a stand & opting out of commencement.
"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have. But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet. When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," President Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday night.
Well said!
What a sad disappointment to those kids and families- to have to sit thru that ,and to have to be reminded of Obama, when they look back on their special day.
money is not the root of evil.
the love of money is.
well,that and democrats.
“...4 dead in O-hi-O.”
Zer0 is just putting the icing on the cake for these government indoctrinated grads. There is an assembly line nature to our education system
[Those voices that Obama is asking his audience to reject are those of the Founding Fathers,]
You are right. Obama is in dire straits now, he is being hit from all sides. Let’s pray that tomorrow will bring some revelations about Benghazi!
Here is an article from The Daily Caller with more extensive quotes from Obama’s Ohio State speech:
http://www.dailycaller.com/2013/05/06/obama-urges-students-to-rely-on-big-government/
Thanks Justice. Since I can’t listen to radio I appreciate the written word!
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