Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals

IBD Editorials ^ | September 4, 2008

[SE Mom]

The piece you've linked to supports the following info I copied from Obama's website (bold is mine)

http://www.barackobama.com/2007/12/05/obama_issues_call_to_serve_vow.php

But we're not keeping pace with the demand of those who want to serve, and we're not leveraging that commitment to meet national challenges

. FDR not only enlisted Americans to create employment, he targeted that service to build our infrastructure and conserve our environment. JFK not only called on a new generation, he made their service a bridge to the developing world, and a bright light of American values in the darkest days of the Cold War.

Today, AmeriCorps - our nation's network of local, state and national service programs - has 75,000 slots. As President, I will increase that to 250,000, and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world,

so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem - they are the answer. Just as we teach math and writing, arts and athletics, we need to teach young Americans to take citizenship seriously. Study after study shows that students who serve do better in school, are more likely to go to college, and more likely to maintain that service as adults. So when I'm President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you'll have done 17 weeks of service. We'll reach this goal in several ways. At the middle and high school level, we'll make federal assistance conditional on school districts developing service programs, and give schools resources to offer new service opportunities.

At the community level, we'll develop public-private partnerships so students can serve more outside the classroom. For college students, I have proposed an annual American Opportunity Tax Credit of $4,000 to make tuition affordable. To receive this credit, we'll require 100 hours of public service. And we'll amend the Federal Work-Study program, so that nearly $250 million will help more than 200,000 college students work in part-time public service jobs each year.

Renewing that spirit starts with service. Make no mistake: our destiny as Americans is tied up with one another. If we are less respected in the world, then you will be less safe. If we keep paying dictators to fill up our gas tanks, then those oceans are going to rise. If we can't give our kids a world-class education, then our economy is going to fall behind. And that's how it should be. It is time to recapture that sense of a common purpose: I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper.

[SE Mom]

I have spent hours reading the policies/issues at Obama’s site. It’s been hard going because I’m not a policy wonk- but I started doing this back in the spring. IF anyone is afraid of Obama based on the little we DO know about him- go to his site and get into the issues- you’ll be SHAKING when you’re done.

[trisham]

Ultimately, We believe a network of leaders practicing these values will engage more community members to participate in public life, unite people across social boundaries to work for the common good, create more innovative, responsive and effective solutions to social problems, and ultimately build a more just society for all.

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It's subtle, but clear.

[antisocial]

Bump TTT

[nw_arizona_granny]

Alinsky method of operation...<<<

Yes!

This is beginning to remind me of when Kerry ran for President.

With in a very few days, when I did a google search, I got pages of communist links.

It was suddenly O.K. to be a communist and they did not go back into hiding when he lost.

[ChessExpert]

But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about "social change" through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky.

"Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities," Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for "justice" and "equality" in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington.

This sounds like thuggery to me.

The government now funds about half of Public Allies' expenses through Clinton's AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military, he said.

Combined with the preceding, this sounds like NAZISM.

When McCain talks about community service, he means something like the Red Cross. When Obama talks about community service, he means left-wing indoctrinated activist thugs.

Yesterday the press was pushing McCain on the subject of community service and got him to agree that in a McCain administration, he would put Obama in charge of community service. Sheesh.