First lady promotes community service

The Las Vegas Sun / The Associated Press ^ | March 17, 2009

[2ndDivisionVet]

First lady Michelle Obama says community service isn't "just an escape for the wealthy," and that it can help do for young people what it did for her husband. She says it helped set Barack Obama on a path to being elected president.

Mrs. Obama on Tuesday continued her effort to encourage volunteerism by visiting more than 100 disadvantaged youths who came to the National Mall to begin building a "green" house for a Texas family whose mobile home was destroyed by a hurricane.

The students participate in YouthBuild, a nationwide program in which poor 16-to 24-year-olds work toward their high school diplomas or equivalents while learning job skills as they build affordable housing for the homeless and the poor.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Did she hand out red scarves to all the youth present?

[cripplecreek]

Around here we get an orange vest that says “Jackson County Sheriff’s department” on the back.

[unkus]

The little books aren’t printed....yet.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Wonder how much “community service” she did? No, membership in Acorn and the Black Panthers does not count.

[TurtleUp]

First lady promotes community service

I wish she would encourage her thuggish socialist-in-chief husband to do the entire world community a service and resign.

[FoxInSocks]

encourage volunteerism by visiting more than 100 disadvantaged youths who came to the National Mall to begin building a "green" house for a Texas family whose mobile home was destroyed by a hurricane

Why on Earth are they building a house on the National Mall? That area is certainly not zoned for residential construction.

[illiac]

Best I can tell is that it may have gotten him to the presidency (unlikely), but it did not give him any common sense, or, brains for that matter....

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I must have missed the information regarding volunteerism Barak did during high school and college.

[madameguinot]

So they are not really volunteering their time out of the goodness of their hearts. It quid pro quo: Free labor for job skills.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Didn’t she get $300k per year for her community service job?

[keepitreal]

community service isn't "just an escape for the wealthy,"

Slavery ain't just for the rich - poor folk should try it too!

[cripplecreek]

16-to 24-year-olds work toward their high school diplomas or equivalents while learning job skills as they build affordable housing for the homeless and the poor.

Because everybody knows you can never have too many empty houses you can't sell.

[zlala]

"just an escape for the wealthy,"

My kids will be shocked to find out they really did grow up wealthy! They've done service most of their lives. What an idiot our 1st lady is...does she think before she speaks?

[2ndDivisionVet]

It sounds like they built a mobile or modular home there and shipped it to the family in Texas. Why didn’t they build it closer to the family? Oh, yeah, that wouldn’t make for a good photo opportunity with Aunt Esther...

[Eye of Unk]

They had community youth groups in the TV movie series "V". Michelle could have a new career in acting.

[Miss Behave]

Community service isn't "just an escape for the wealthy?"

REALLY, Michelle? /s

[aShepard]

Psrt of “Community Service” is to support the churches and not for profits in your ‘hood.

Now, let’s see, what percentage of their income did they donate to charity, while she was earning mega bucks??

??Does it round up to .01%??

Total hippocrat RAT scum!

[ari-freedom]

First lady Michelle Obama says community service isn’t “just an escape for the wealthy,”

no, it’s what you do when you’re punished

[Repeat Offender]

Yeah they are..... they're blue

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Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung.

NO, I don't need a sarc tag. Sad.

[Neverforget01]

Speaking of Aunt Esther

Was this her St. Patrick's Day look?