We need to use technology to connect people to service. We’ll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where American can browse opportunities to volunteer. You’ll be able to search by category, time commitment and skill sets. You’ll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities.

This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda and make their own change from the bottom up.

When the heck am I suppose to do some REAL work that pays me money so I can support my family without government intervention? How will I have an time left over to spend with my family? Democrats always talk about how much work we all have to do and the need for daycares and expanding FMLA. No wonder Pres. Obama is pushing for Universal Preschool for infants even between the ages of 0-5. He says it’s because studies say that children should start learning out of the womb. What he really meant is, “I want to enforce indoctrination on your children so I make more Democrat voters and I’ll use the excuse that you have no time to teach your own kids because you’ll be too busy working without wages for my ‘compulsory’ volunteer systems.”

Sounds like the Gulag to me.

CC, I always love your collie’s comments but now I’m doubly amazed; not only is he a pundit but can read as well. Wow.

Big John on November 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM

He can read? HA! As if that was the ONLY thing that I have to deal with. He’s writing a book. He told everyone here at HotAir that he hasn’t decided on the title yet, but he’s toying with “The Time For Canine Liberation Theology Is Now”

He’s being acting up every since Obama got elected.

My collie says:

CC, you’re just jealous because no one ever reads that book that you wrote.

…the circumstances are starkly different.

MadisonConservative on November 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM
And I do not gloss over this. I point out explicitly that people walk into the abortion clinics VOLUNTARILY.

Just because the circumstances ARE starkly different, it does not mean that we, the people of the United States, have no culpability in all of this. Our relative silence about this speaks volumes about our culture and about who we are.

My collie says:

Read the 3rd chapter of Ezekiel. If we are silent about these kinds of atrocities, God counts the sin against us, just as though it is we that have committed the crime — and that fact has EVERYTHING to do with Who God Is.

CyberCipher on November 14, 2008 at 12:13 PM

CC, I always love your collie’s comments but now I’m doubly amazed; not only is he a pundit but can read as well. Wow.

We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Just might get a Triple Lindy with a twist in spin award!

True.

Why is it that everything Obama says is to shrug off, diminish, deny or change something else he said a few days or weeks before. All I can see are the wavy fingers and oh-so-soothing-nicotine-baratone talkingtalkingtalkig around whatever it is the other party brought up about one of his stupidities.

This country needs to get its head out of its arse before this marionette’s little play brownshirts start knocking on people’s doors.

And if you think that’s extreme, what do you think Joe the Plumber’s opinion about it is? or Sarah Palin’s? or the newslady who dared to ask Slow Joe a challenging question?

We elected the strongest advocate of this (in all of the U.S. Senate) to the Office of the Presidency — where he can appoint MORE old lawyers to make certain that this never changes.

CyberCipher on November 14, 2008 at 12:26 PM

…and not because of his position about abortion, but because of the economy and because McCain was a weak candidate with a weak campaign.

Do you know the handy thing about an empty suit with a lot of Charisma? Really easy to manipulate. Think on that a bit. Who are this man’s benefactors? Who is running congress? If he’s really a lightweight, who’s pulling his strings or who influences him the most?

Bambi doesn’t have to be the next Stalin to do great harm. He just has to be open to adopting the policies of someone on the extreme left. And I think he’s long associations with Wright and Ayers prove that to be the case.

That in mind, and given his rather spectacular rise, he’s either A) quite a bit more canny than we think he is or B) either had help getting there or C) will at least be quite open to suggestion when he does.

Neither of those options make me terribly comfortable with the Patterico/Cap’n Ed “Obama is a good man, chill out ODS sufferers” approach.

As an aside, I’ll agree that he’ll say almost anything to get elected, but his service program before they changed the website? That’s not exactly something your average slacker college student is going to like – particularly the ones that work part or full time already. So I don’t see how that qualifies as the usual election time pandering. Plus it came out … after he won the election, I believe. Strange, that.

Secondly, I’m pretty sure Supreme Court decision overrules majority rule. So how exactly are American citizens culpable for the decisions of nine old lawyers?

MadisonConservative on November 14, 2008 at 12:19 PM

We elected the strongest advocate of this (in all of the U.S. Senate) to the Office of the Presidency — where he can appoint MORE old lawyers to make certain that this never changes.

Just because the circumstances ARE starkly different, it does not mean that we, the people of the United States, have no culpability in all of this. Our relative silence about this speaks volumes about our culture and about who we are.

CyberCipher on November 14, 2008 at 12:13 PM

First of all, abortion has continued to be a constroversial topic with plenty of opponents for years since Roe V. Wade.

Secondly, I’m pretty sure Supreme Court decision overrules majority rule. So how exactly are American citizens culpable for the decisions of nine old lawyers?

…the circumstances are starkly different.

MadisonConservative on November 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM

And I do not gloss over this. I point out explicitly that people walk into the abortion clinics VOLUNTARILY.

Just because the circumstances ARE starkly different, it does not mean that we, the people of the United States, have no culpability in all of this. Our relative silence about this speaks volumes about our culture and about who we are.

My collie says:

Read the 3rd chapter of Ezekiel. If we are silent about these kinds of atrocities, God counts the sin against us, just as though it is we that have committed the crime — and that fact has EVERYTHING to do with Who God Is.

CyberCipher on November 14, 2008 at 10:48 AM

Interesting article, along with the YouTube video about he Negro Project. However, while you make a certain point, you diminish its significance. Abortions are case-by-case choices made by individual citizens, not by government or military order. How is that comparable to martial law rounding up millions of people and sending them to death camps? Sure, the numbers are ugly, but the circumstances are starkly different.

And Congress is just gonna, supposedly, approve this funding?

*sigh*

JetBoy on November 13, 2008 at 11:18 PM

And would you believe that Congress voted to give $700 BILLION dollars to one person, without any oversight or serious discussion? And now he’s changing his mind on what to spend it on…

$700 BILLION… $700 BILLION… what else is possible with that type of money?… but we’d never do anything so unconstitutional… and Congress would never go along with it…

/sarc

Hopeful wishing is not a strategy.

My collie says:

CC’s latest rant — just in case you’re short on entertainment today.

Obama has surrounded himself with Clinton Democrats.
Clinton people will be pushing the Clinton agenda. (They believe they were very successful while Clinton was in office.) And if Hillary is given any kind of cabinet position (which I doubt, but might be given one just to keep her from running against Obama in 2012) people will talk about this being the 3rd term of Bill Clinton.

Souter has already told Obama to produce a real birth certificate by dec 1st.
unseen on November 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM

I’m not clear on this issue since I can find not a single report from anyone in the MSM about the rumored Writ of Certiorari, and what it means in all practicality. Maybe Brooks Jackson can clear it up. /s.

The more I consider this, the more I think even Obama and Emanuel must realize this just isn’t feasible.
flipflop on November 13, 2008 at 11:19 PM

Probably, but what is not being talked about is the fact that Obama wants to force involuntary servitude on our children beginning in Middle School. He plans to accomplish this goal by forcing schools to integrate “service” into their curricula or lose federal funding.

No doubt the a Dem congress will be only too happy to comply with this indoctrination program and usurpation of parental rights, at which point it I would imagine that it will end up in the Courts.

Memo to Brooks Jackson:

This is not a rumor, it’s all laid out at his campaign website. There’s also some intriguing stuff in there about Seniors who participate in “Citizen Service” getting a “continuation of their health benefits” and so forth.

If you look in the headlines and read the story about the 14 year old girl’s experiment in a Chicago school with McCain/Obama shirts, you will see that Obama supporters are embolden to intimidate. …I don’t know if it will qualify as an indicator but it will be interesting to see how the new President handles these incidents or if they even rise to his notice.

Cindy Munford on November 14, 2008 at 9:06 AM

Didn’t Obama, a few weeks ago, urge his supporters to put it “in our faces”? I expect he won’t be so direct about it now, but will take the posture of benign neglect, leaving his community organizers a virtual free reign.