Obama At Ohio State Commencement: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny

 

U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio.

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.

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Comment by kenneth vance on May 7, 2013 at 9:15am

Right on Admins, right on. If only we can convince the rest of America to REMEMBER what you just said

Comment by countyguard on May 6, 2013 at 10:30pm

Please, what a bunch of pathetic nonsense this infiltrator speaks.  It seemed that most of the audience were NOT applauding, so that gives me hope that our college graduates are NOT brain dead as he is presuming.

Comment by guest_blog on May 6, 2013 at 7:12pm

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

The Declaration of Independence

Comment by Scott W on May 6, 2013 at 11:18am

Comment by Scott W on May 6, 2013 at 11:18am

The State is GOD to the Progs.

Comment by kenneth vance on May 6, 2013 at 10:20am

They only address the this issue if it is a problem to them. Let Obama say this same message in front of a protest for example. I can only imagine. Once again, we are proven to be a royal headache to these physcopaths

Comment by Nancy Oakley on May 6, 2013 at 2:13am

Comment by Laverne Swanson on May 6, 2013 at 12:58am

I think he took some of that from John F. Kennedy! And he called America a democracy.....uh excuse me? And to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation and you should know the rest.

Comment by MAC on May 5, 2013 at 11:55pm

Right Paricia, it pisses me off to know end how all these assholes keep trying to convince us that we are a democracy, If they can convince people we live in a democracy then it will be much easer to ignore the constitution and fuck us over, we've seen a lot of that lately.

who ever uses that term needs to be called out

Comment by paricia on May 5, 2013 at 11:31pm

someone please explain to him that we are a constitutional republic....

Comment by margaret on May 5, 2013 at 11:24pm

Refusal To Put Child On Psych Drugs Results In Swat Teams & a TANK. This is in America! [VIDEO]

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/refusal-to-put-child-on-psych-drugs-...

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on May 5, 2013 at 10:34pm

as with Obozo's bizzarro werld, translates to "Listen to voices that warn of Government Tyranny, They know what they're talking about"

"Destroying the New World Order"

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