Comments on: Obama: Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do to you.

By: punditius

punditius — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:02:04 +0000

We have that requirement where I live. Students have to do X hours of “community service” in order to graduate from high school. The only thing that makes it palatable is that the service includes things like being an altar boy at church.

But Bam Bam is going to make kids serve the government. Funny – I thought that it was supposed to be the other way around, that government was supposed to serve the people. Silly me.

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:00:46 +0000

Claudio. It seems that, based on so few fleshed out details we have here from both Obama and Buckley, that Obama is making his program conditional on a govt bureacracy, in this case education, to force “100 percent of its students” to do state controlled service programs. No doubt, given today’s constituencies in the teachers unions, inevitably for leftist causes.

Buckley seems in that interview to imply that his program would be volunteer only, and have no strings attached to federal funding.

I think they are both bad ideas, ripe for misuse. Obama’s from the outset, already raising flags.

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Conservatives, Obama and Me. « The Life of the Mind — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:37:31 +0000

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By: Claudio Veliz, AIA

Claudio Veliz, AIA — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:02:41 +0000

How does this proposal differ from Wm. F. Buckley’s, via “Gratitude”? In substance or in application/administration? See reference here: http://tinyurl.com/58grxa

By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:03:25 +0000

Turns out Michelle wasn’t fibbing when she said her hubby will require us to work hard when he’s Community Organizer in Chief. Another good reason to vote against the Kid.

Really, if we had a serious media and not a transcription service for the Democratic Party, this astounding position would be ridiculed along with much of the other claptrap coming out of his campaign. What’s next: federal aid to be conditioned on school districts requiring the teaching of Esperanto?

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Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:56:55 +0000

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By: Lefroy

Lefroy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:39:48 +0000

“Barak Hussein Obama”? We know what his middle name is, Roger, and you’re much, much better than that.

By: fiona

fiona — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:22:39 +0000

We have this requirement in Florida – it descends into a sort of cheap trickery – volunteer at the polls and sit around chatting with your friends- volunteer at a local charity and do filing (often badly) you get the picture. For those kids who really choose to do volunteer time on projects they choose for themselves this is a good experience. For the majority, it is an exercise in cynicism.