Obama To Ohio State U Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny

[sailingaway]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...oices_that_warn_about_government_tyranny.html

um....

No?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow 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. We shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. And as citizens, we understand that it's not about what America can do for us, it's about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government. And class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.

Well, but 'self governance' is the opposite of government governance, and this is not a Democracy, it is a Republic. That he treats it like a democracy is in fact tyranny over those rights protected FROM the majority.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Democracy is slavery.

 

[oyarde]

Govt in current form is Tyrany and Obummer is a Tyrant, get back with me when it becomes nuetral.

 

[jtstellar]

ugh try kindergarten obama.. university is a little late

 

[green73]

 

[Christian Liberty]

They probably already believe the tyrant's pleasant sounding poison...

The mass murdering freak should just stop talking and go live in a cave for the next four years.

 

[green73]

ugh try kindergarten obama.. university is a little late

Why? The political IQ of most college graduates is that of a five year old.

 

[WhistlinDave]

This coming from a guy who promised he would use "common sense and science, not politics or ideology" in reforming the war on drugs, and then as soon as he takes office, escalated the raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in California and elsewhere... He's twice the tyrant Bush was if the war on drugs is any indication.

And... I wonder if people who have had innocent relatives blown to smithereens by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen see the US government as a "brave, creative, and unique experiment in self-rule" or if they see it as a "sinister entity"?

 

[Quark]

I view this as a good thing. It means libertarians are rising fast enough that Obama must combat us with his ridiculous rhetoric.

 

[Mani]

I view this as a good thing. It means libertarians are rising fast enough that Obama must combat us with his ridiculous rhetoric.

That's what I thought as well.....apparently we are making enough noise that he needs to actually defend the gobernnt

 

[James Madison]

"That government is best which governs least." - Thomas Jefferson Old, White Terrorist

 

[Tod]

One of my customers' son graduated this year from OSU and they didn't attend the ceremony because Obama was the speaker. She noted,

"His appearance is precisely why we didn't attend Andy's graduation. Apparently many others didn't, either, because they increased the number of guests each grad could have from 3 to 13!"

 

[AFPVet]

Hmm... I wonder how many deaf ears that fell on. I know that at my school, the vast majority were Ron Paul and Alex Jones followers.

 

[Istvan]

And people thought Bush was bad...

 

[jkr]

stay the fuck out of my state MONGREL!

 

[Christian Liberty]

He still was. Obama's no better but I don't really see how he's worse, the system is the same and Bush would be doing the same things if he was still around...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

 

[sailingaway]

One of my customers' son graduated this year from OSU and they didn't attend the ceremony because Obama was the speaker. She noted,"His appearance is precisely why we didn't attend Andy's graduation. Apparently many others didn't, either, because they increased the number of guests each grad could have from 3 to 13!"

Wow, that is a major increase!

 

[Son of Detroit]

Why? The political IQ of most college graduates is that of a five year old.

You're giving these Ohio State grads a little too much credit.

 

[WhistlinDave]

So be honest... (Question for anyone and everyone)

When you were reading the quote in the OP above, did you hear it inside your head in Obama's voice? (I did. Which made it piss me off even more.)