PRESIDENT’S COMMENCEMENT SPEECH
President Obama gave the commencement address at Ohio State Universities graduation ceremony last weekend. Here are a few quotes from the speech followed by some of my comments.
“ 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.”
CONSTITUTION VS. TYRANNY
This is what you would expect to hear from someone who doesn’t want his power to be challenged. Lets look at what our founders thought about Government and compare it to our President. (more…)