Now Obama is calling students to national service! For past six years we have witnessed how WC team have called young Americans to serve to kill in Iraq and Afghanistan and to be killed in vain, for someone else's fu***ing security and betterment. Now Obama is calling all students to service -- to help Americans in America, to help neighbours, elders, handicapped people... This is a great shift from a blood thirsty government that said, "I want you for the US Army to kill, torture, and rape in someone else's land for someone else's damned security."
So Barack Obama called college students to national service Wednesday, inviting them "to take hold of the future of your country and answer a new call to service to meet the challenges of our new century."
"We need your service, right now, in this moment †our moment †in history," he said.
"I am going to ask you to play your part; ask you to stand up; ask you to put your foot firmly into the current of history," Barack Obama said, adding that sometime in the future they will recall their service "as a moment when your own story and the American story came together, and history bent once more in the direction of justice."
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Obama Issues Call for Public Service - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
Senator Barack Obama implored young Americans "to step into the currents of history," by not only supporting his presidential candidacy, but committing to form a new generation of public service.
In a speech here today at Cornell College, Mr. Obama said he would seek to restore America's standing in the world by doubling the size of the Peace Corps, increasing the strength of the Foreign Service and creating a national network – modeled after Craigslist – to connect volunteers to areas of need across the country.
"I won't just ask for your vote as a candidate, I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am president of the United States," Mr. Obama said, drawing applause and a standing ovation from hundreds of students and residents of this eastern Iowa town. "This will not be a call issued in one speech or program, this will be a cause of my presidency."
Before presenting his proposals calling for a renewed commitment to national service, Mr. Obama was endorsed by Harris Wofford, a former senator from Pennsylvania who helped form the Peace Corps during his time in the Kennedy administration. As he introduced Mr. Obama to the crowd, Mr. Wofford said he had not felt as inspired "since the days of John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King."
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This is better for young Americans than being part of a bloody war, a divisive politics, a decaying social fabric.
You can watch the video of this call:
BarackObama.com | Jaime Mulligan's Blog: A Call to Serve: Video