Posted on 10/16/2009 4:34:43 AM PDT by IbJensen
San Francisco (AP) - President Barack Obama, who has called on Americans to perform more community service, is joining former President George H.W. Bush in urging citizens to volunteer.
Bush on Friday was to host a forum on volunteering at Texas A&M University, to be attended by Obama, who initiated a "United We Serve" call to service in June that culminated in a national day of service on the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The forum is affiliated with the Points of Light Institute, an organization that honors people and groups who participate in community service. Bush created the Daily Point of Light Award in 1989 to honor volunteers.
The forum will be held at the A&M campus at College Station, Texas, where Bush's presidential library is located. It was expected to draw students, faculty and Points of Light award winners. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a former president of the university, was planning to attend as well.
As a candidate, Obama promised to make a call to public service a cornerstone of his presidency.
On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this year, on Jan. 19, the day before Obama's inauguration, the president-elect, Hollywood stars and thousands of other Americans volunteered across the country.
In April, Obama signed into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which tripled the size of the AmeriCorps community service program.
And in late June, when Obama kicked off the call to service program, he and his family worked with other volunteers at Fort McNair in Washington and helped load 15,000 backpacks with books, healthy snacks and toys for children with parents in the armed forces
“President Obama Joins Elder George Bush in Call to Community Service”
Makes one want to barf!!! We’re on the road to communism and it looks as if the Bushs’ helped pave the way.
Chicago's former Mayor, Jane Byrne tried something like that once.
"In an effort to demonstrate a commitment to making the complex safer, then Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne moved into a fourth-floor apartment in 1981. Backed by a number of police officers and a substantial personal bodyguard detail, she stayed for only three weeks. This incident, too, contributed to public perception of Cabrini-Green as the worst of the worst of public housing. As a security measure, the rear entryway of the unit Byrne stayed in was welded shut. This had the unforeseen impact of creating a fortification for gang members when Byrne left. Many other gangs copied this technique in other units." source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini-Green
How long before all of the city dwellers and intellectuals are forced into the factories and fields to “voluneer” their time in service to whatever 5-year plans are needed to “stimulate” the economy and the country?
Just once, I'd like for the government to serve me.
I’m sick to death of the Bushes too. Get out of my face, Mr. New World Order!
Good one!
NWO Bush Sr. has dinner with the rapist Clinton and will be supporting Obama.
It’s all a Dog & Pony Show - Good Cop, Bad Cop. They’re all reading from a script. Two sides of the same coin. Their goal is to destroy America’s sovereignty, as quickly & efficiently as possible. BOTH the Dems & Pubics are our ENEMIES.
Yeah, and how long before the Bush Klan bails the US & moves to their 50,000 acre fortress in Costa Rica or Uraguay, or wherever the hell it is?
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