Obama to College Students: ‘Reject These Voices’ That Warn of Big Government & Tyranny

[Ban Hammer 13,577]

As an exhibitionist, I am all for it.

[Harsh_77 718]

I get what they're going for here. Contrary to what they and others seem to think, America is not going to become a police state with pockets of right wing gun owners fighting to return our country to the freedom loving democracy it once was. This is not going to happen people. Stop thinking every stop light added at an intersection is big brother coming to get you.

Don’t jump that red light…you are being watched.... you gonna get a ticket. Lol

Edited May 6, 2013 by Harsh_77

[duraaraa 203]

As an exhibitionist, I am all for it.

Well, I think the law should neither prevent you from exposing yourself, nor force others to.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Invoking the end of the Cold War, 9/11 and the economic recession, Obama said this generation has already been tested beyond what their parents could have imagined. But he said young Americans have responded with a deep commitment to service and a conviction that they can improve their surroundings. He urged graduates to run for office, start a business or join a cause, contending that the health of their democracy “requires your dedicated, informed and engaged citizenship.”

Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.

We have never been a people who place all our faith in government to solve our problems, nor do we want it to. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government.

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The cynics may be the loudest voices—but they accomplish the least. It’s the silent disruptors—those who do the long, hard, committed work of change—that gradually push this country in the right direction, and make the most lasting difference. [Emphasis added]

Ohio State also bestowed an honorary doctorate on Obama, applauding his “unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose.”

Obama’s other two commencement speeches this season will be later in May at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and at Morehouse College, an all-male school in Atlanta.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/05/obama-to-college-students-reject-these-voices-that-warn-of-big-government-tyranny/