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Obama Tells Graduates to Reject Anti-Government Talk, “They’ll Warn That Tyranny Is Always Lurking Just Around The Corner. You Should Reject These Voices.”

May 6, 2013




COLUMBUS, Ohio — Acknowledging that commencement addresses are no place for partisanship, President Obama nonetheless skirted close to that political line on Sunday, telling graduates at Ohio State University to ignore antigovernment arguments that “gum up the works” and instead aspire to be citizens who value both individual rights and community responsibilities.


“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,” Mr. Obama told the crowd at the Ohio State commencement ceremony. “They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”



Ohio State graduates, their families and friends — almost 60,000 people in all — turned the university’s huge football stadium into a sea of red and gray, the university’s colors. Mr. Obama noted that it was his fifth visit to the campus in the past year, reflecting the importance of Ohio and young voters to his re-election in November.


But this was the president’s first trip here in his young second term, which has already faced setbacks in Congress over the budget and legislation to reduce gun violence and is now confronting the escalating violence in the Middle East and a push to overcome Republican opposition to an overhaul of immigration law that would provide a path to citizenship to about 11 million people who are in the country illegally.


Obama Delivers Message Of Optimism To Class Of ’13 [continued]


Obama Delivers Message of Optimism to Class of ’13

Christopher Gregory/The New York Times
President Obama addressing Ohio State graduates on Sunday. “You’ve been tested and you’ve been tempered,” he told them.

By JACKIE CALMES

Published: May 5, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Acknowledging that commencement addresses are no place for partisanship, President Obama nonetheless skirted close to that political line on Sunday, telling graduates at Ohio State University to ignore antigovernment arguments that “gum up the works” and instead aspire to be citizens who value both individual rights and community responsibilities.



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Obama urged Ohio State graduates to pursue causes for the greater good.




“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,” Mr. Obama told the crowd at the Ohio State commencement ceremony. “They’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”


Ohio State graduates, their families and friends — almost 60,000 people in all — turned the university’s huge football stadium into a sea of red and gray, the university’s colors. Mr. Obama noted that it was his fifth visit to the campus in the past year, reflecting the importance of Ohio and young voters to his re-election in November.


But this was the president’s first trip here in his young second term, which has already faced setbacks in Congress over the budget and legislation to reduce gun violence and is now confronting the escalating violence in the Middle East and a push to overcome Republican opposition to an overhaul of immigration law that would provide a path to citizenship to about 11 million people who are in the country illegally.


Mr. Obama will make another trip outside Washington this week, this time to Austin, Tex., to press for long-blocked initiatives supporting infrastructure projects, education and a higher minimum wage. But in the commencement speech on Sunday, the first of three that he plans to give during graduation season, Mr. Obama mostly steered clear of those subjects and others that he and Republicans are fighting over. His address was both a pitch for good citizenship and an optimistic message as the economy recovers from the most serious recession since the Great Depression.


“While things are still hard for a lot of people, you have every reason to believe that your future is bright,” Mr. Obama said. “You’re graduating into an economy and a job market that is steadily healing.”


The president described the graduates’ generation as having a “sense of service” that “makes me optimistic for our future.” Ohio State’s class of 2013, he noted, included military veterans, volunteers for the Peace Corps and Teach for America, and entrepreneurs who are already running start-up companies.
Their lives, he said, started as the cold war was ending and the Internet age was beginning, and they came of age as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, wars, recession and technological advances transformed America.


“You’ve been tested and you’ve been tempered by events that your parents and I never imagined we’d see when we sat where you sit,” he said. “And yet despite all this, or perhaps because of it, yours has become a generation possessed with that most American of ideas — that people who love their country can change it for the better.”


Citizenship, he said, is sometimes seen “as a virtue from another time, a distant past — one that’s slipping from a society that celebrates individual ambition above all else, a society awash in instant technology that empowers us to leverage our skills and talents like never before, but just as easily allows us to retreat from the world. And the result is that we sometimes forget the larger bonds we share as one American family.”


Mr. Obama urged the graduates to find not just a career but a cause for the greater good. Perhaps, he said, they might even run for public office.
“I promise you, it will give you a tough skin. I know a little bit about this,” he said. “President Wilson once said, ‘If you want to make enemies, try to change something.’ ”



A version of this article appeared in print on May 6, 2013, on page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: Obama Delivers Message Of Optimism to Class of ’13.


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Oh my God should they say "Heil" too!!!!

President Obama: Sometimes Tyranny Does Lurk Around the Corner

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Gary DeMar





President Obama made the following commencements comments about tyranny to the graduating class at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013:
“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.”


It’s always the other guy who’s the tyrant. Did Adolf Hitler present himself as a tyrant? He believed that he was doing the best thing for his people. The trains ran on time, there was prosperity, and the people had a renewed hope for Germany. It was all a setup for a tyrant.
How about Josef Stalin? Benito Mussolini? Mao Zedong? Pol Pot? Idi Amin?


These men would never have considered themselves to be tyrants. In fact, if you accused them of such a thing, you might find yourself in a concentration camp, gulag, or on the trash heap with a bullet in your head.


Do you think these men enticed people to follow them by revealing to them that they would establish political tyrannies? They made promises to the people. That’s why they were put in power. Hugo Chavez was a tyrant that the people of Venezuela voted for.


Would Barack Obama have spoken out against Stalin or Hitler before their governments degenerated into full-orbed tyrannies? Would the President have supported the Polish Solidarity movement over against the Communist tyranny?


Would he have joined the 52 singers of the Declaration of Independence? Here’s the opening paragraph:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
In fact, the signers of the Declaration described the king of England as a tyrant:


“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”


Considering what the War of Independence was fought over, our nation can’t be anything less than a full-blown tyranny.
Consider this second in the list of Facts against the King:
“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”


Consider the following letter from Attorney General Eric Holder that was sent to Gov. Sam Brownback on April 26^th in response to a new law in Kansas that prevents government agents from enforcing federal gun laws in the state:


“In purporting to override federal law and to criminalize the official acts of federal officers, [the law] directly conflicts with federal law and is therefore unconstitutional.”
The Second Amendment prohibits the Federal Government from forbidding people in the various states from “keeping and bearing arms” for “the security of a free state.” It is the duty of the states to protect its citizens against the usurpation of their constitutional rights.
Ours is a slow moving tyranny. An iron fist in a velvet glove.


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