Obama Highlights National Service
(CBS)
(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) Barack Obama used the impending Fourth of July holiday today as a backdrop to highlight his national service plan, which includes expanding AmeriCorps and doubling the size of the Peace Corps.
“Loving your country shouldn’t just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July,” Obama said at the University of Colorado. “Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it. If you do, your life will be richer, and our country will be stronger.”
Today’s speech was part of a week-long effort to highlight Obama’s values and biography. A campaign aide said the speeches underscore what makes up Obama’s “moral compass.”
Obama also spoke about September 11th at greater length today, recounting where he was on the day of the attacks. He was deeply critical of the Bush’s policies after 9/11, criticizing the Administration for not using the attacks to inspire American’s to serve.
“Instead of a call to service, we were asked to go shopping. Instead of a call for shared sacrifice, we gave tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans in a time of war for the very first time in our history,” Obama said. “Instead of leadership that called us to come together, we got patriotism defined as the property of one party, and used as a political wedge to take us into a war that should have never been authorized and never been waged.”
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See all 63 CommentsIt''s funny the day McCain is exposed for ties to Colombian terrorist hostages are suddenly released.
The Democrats gave this one to McCain. NOBODY is going to vote for Obama.
Posted by Allison2008a at 04:41 PM : Jul 02, 2008
LMAO .... You have to be kidding me... When are you Clinton diehards ever going to go away. You make no sense and add absolutely no value to any debate. Your views are blurred by your inability to reason with the fact that not everyone wanted Hillary. If you would wake up and read a little you would see that Obama had as many supporters as Hillary and that he won the nomination. The intelligent Clinton supporters realize that having Obama as President is far better than any idiot the GOP can put up. Wake up not only for America but for yourself and your children, if you have any.
Posted by JTait2 at 03:26 PM : Jul 02, 2008
Nice one Race Baiter.... Typical white trash response....
Posted by JTait2 at 03:26 PM : Jul 02, 2008
Nice one Race Baiter.... Typical white trash response....
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Posted by LiberalVet at 05:50 PM : Jul 02, 2008
The intelligent Hillary Clinton supporters voted for her because Obama is a TOTAL whack job!
Get real!
He won''t answer questions...
He won''t debate...
He wants to talk AT you, not with you...
Vote for ME! Vote for ME! I haven''t ever passed a piece of legislation that was my own idea, but vote for ME! I tell ya, I''m going to CHANGE SOMETHING! I don''t know what it is, but I''m going to CHANGE something!
It''''s funny the day McCain is exposed for ties to Colombian terrorist hostages are suddenly released.
Posted by daninmadison at 04:07 PM : Jul 02, 2008
wasn''t this convenient he just happened to be in Columbia at the time of the release, do you think he grabbed them by the shirt collar and said," release or else." This is a set up, as the republicans do so well to help MCBush.I bet faux nooz is going crazy with this one
WHAT IS HIS NATIONAL SERVICE PLAN?
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Posted by mtracy9 at 07:10 PM : Jul 02, 2008
Guess what? BUSH isn''t running! He can''t!
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China Inspired Interrogations at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON -- The military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of ''coercive management techniques'' for possible use on prisoners, including ''sleep deprivation'', ''prolonged constraint'', and ''exposure''.
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
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Great, now we''re taking pages out of the playbook of Communist China that were used against our own military personnel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html?_r=1&ei=5043&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=EXCITE&adxnnlx=1215039831-8gj6uy90dG0Tom266b5jgA
Posted by standlee5 at 07:37 PM : Jul 02, 2008
Wishful thinking, at best. The wealthy invest most of their money in the stock market and a great deal of that goes to companies overseas. If you believe that the amount that will ''trickle-down'' via new well-paying jobs will offset the amount of national debt that falls on the middle class for the next few generations, perhaps you''d be interested in some ''waterfront property'' that I have for sale.
Senior citizens for John McCain.
What leadership? All Bush did was to take that terrible day and twist it and lie about it and use it as a reason to invade a country that had nothing to do with it for profit! In doing so Bush, like the dog he is, raised his leg and pis*sed all over the graves and memories of those that died on 9-11.
And between those insane tax cuts and the cost of this war, the GOP managed to dam*n near destroy the economy for the rest of us!
He is the most liberal Senator in Congress and now he''s attempting to convince us that he''s middle of the road, etc. What fools we have in this country. "Jesus'' Sermon on the Mount" is a passage that is so radical that it''s doubtful that our Defense Dept. would survive its application" Obama said in June of 2006 at a liberal Christian Group "Call to Renewal" meeting. Sound like a person that a conservative Christian would vote for? NO, NO
The Quinnipiac University poll out today shows Barack Obama leading John McCain among every segment of the Connecticut electorate except Republicans. His lead among all likely voters is 56 to 35 percent.
Most troubling for Republicans, some of whom were privately grumbling Friday at the state GOP''s Prescott Bush fundraising dinner that McCain is too focused on terrorism and foreign policy, is that the economy is dominating.
By a wide margin, every sub-group in the poll says the economy is their biggest concern. And some experts don''t see any improvement soon.
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2008/07/obama-has-broad-early-lead-in.html
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Just FYI, Obama beating McCain by 21% here so far.
Posted by love234ameri at 08:45 PM : Jul 02, 2008,,,
This was wrong if true, it would be great if you could name who it was or supply a link! But more to the point, Sen. Obama is not suddenly responsible for everyones mistakes just because he is running for President and neither is Sen. McCain.
I can''t take it anymore!!!
Every day you and the Republican neocons stay in office you damage our country.
You only care about your junkyard dog friends like Sean Hannity and Rush Lmbaugh and his $400,000,000 dollar contract!!!
We Americans are suffering out here Mr. President!
Don''t you give a HOOT!!!
You gave us this fake economy based on debt creations and free trade and turned us into homeless serfs!
I can''t take it anymore!!!
Every day you and the Republican neocons stay in office you damage our country.
You only care about your junkyard dog friends like Sean Hannity and Rush Lmbaugh and his $400,000,000 dollar contract!!!
We Americans are suffering out here Mr. President!
Don''t you give a HOOT!!!
You gave us this fake economy based on debt creations and free trade and turned us into homeless serfs!
I can''t take it anymore!!!
Every day you and the Republican neocons stay in office you damage our country.
You only care about your junkyard dog friends like Sean Hannity and Rush Lmbaugh and his $400,000,000 dollar contract!!!
We Americans are suffering out here Mr. President!
Don''t you give a HOOT!!!
You gave us this fake economy based on debt creations and free trade and turned us into homeless serfs!
The intelligent Hillary Clinton supporters voted for her because Obama is a TOTAL whack job!
Get real!
Posted by RowdyWicca at 06:18 PM : Jul 02, 2008
Rowdy you get real... you and a handful of disgruntled women are the only people that shares your view point. It is time to get over yourself and do the right thing for this nation and vote Democrat as you state you are. If you are so stupid to vote McCain or not vote at all then you are no better then all these GOP whack jobs in this country.
He is Bitter and clinging to Bushes religious programs for votes. He is clinging to bush policies on environment for votes. He is clinging to talking people into joining the service.
For someone who spent the past 2 years getting people to turn against their president, their government and the war, He sure is coming back with being a total absolute Hypocrite on it all.
He does know what he wants, so how can anyone believe in his change. Because his change is constant and his change is for what he is against.
The smears are so bad that they can''t even MISQUOTE Obama ''correctly''.
This is an internet lie. Go to your library and look it up for yourself
Audacity of Hope [Page 260]:
"Whenever I appear before immigrant audiences, I can count on some good-natured ribbing from my staff after my speech; according to them, my remarks always follow a three-part structure: "I am your friend," "[...home country] has been a cradle of civilization," and "You embody the American dream." They''re right, my message is simple, for what I''ve come to understand is that my mere presence before these newly minted Americans serves notice that they matter, that they are voters critical to my success and full-fledged citizens deserving of respect.
"Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
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Posted by LiberalVet at 09:15 PM : Jul 02, 2008
YOu get real and get over yourself!
I''m not voting for this Marxist shill so full of hot air he''s about to exploside from methane ignition!
Handful, my arse...we''re now over 50,000 in my area alone! And that''s the south side of the metroplex.
Obama votes for FISA just like his telecom contributors told him to...
Obama wants control of non-profit and community charities, just like BUSH, so he can control where their money is spent...just like his Marxist lobbyists told him to...
That''s just to name 3 three paybacks already and still four months to election time...
Obama NOW praises the Supreme Court decision on banning guns...when the decision told him his is absolutely WRONG! Whatta mush mouth!
Obama has to throw Wes Clark under the campaign bus because his bad jugment sent out the wrong hit man to do his dirty work for him...he should''ve checked Clark''s NOT SO SHINEY record before he sent him to dimish someone elses record!
Bad, bad, judgment!
Obama''s evidently having a SENIOR MOMENT and forgot BUSH can''t run again!
Barack Hussein Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama
Posted by Barocalto at 12:43 AM : Jul 03, 2008
I agree 100%. Ladies and gentlemen, the next President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama!
Works for me!
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