Obama To Graduates: "Trust Me, Not Them"

Over the weekend President Obama made several commencement speeches at various schools, including Ohio State University.  In his speech at OSU the President made the following remarks:

“Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is 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, nor do we want it to. But we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, either. Because we understand that this democracy is ours. As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of self-government.

The cynics may be the loudest voices—but they accomplish the least. It’s the silent disruptors—those who do the long, hard, committed work of change—that gradually push this country in the right direction, and make the most lasting difference.”

I've often wondered why President Obama says things like "We live in the greatest nation in the world" but wants to "fundamentally change" it.  It doesn't make much sense to me.

It’s interesting that our founding fathers believed future administrations could become tyrannical and structured the Constitution to ensure such a thing couldn’t happen.  More than once during his Presidency, President Obama has referred to the Constitution as a hindrance to what he wanted to do.  He has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to take some powers away from the other branches of government, such as the debt ceiling and budgeting, and make it part of the Executive Branch so he alone would be in charge of it.  He has also denied, on several occasions, that he is (or wants to be) king – something I don’t remember any other president doing in my lifetime.  It makes one wonder why he’s bringing it up.

Robert A. Heinlein, American author and purveyor of liberty and self-reliance, once wrote in a book: “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”  Since Heinlein died in 1988, there was no way he could have known about the upcoming health care law.  But was it a prediction?

American author Bruce Coville once said: “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”  Does that apply to the Obama administration and the mainstream media?  Information coming from “the most transparent administration in history” is partial, at best, and often non-existent.  The Benghazi fiasco is a perfect example.  It is becoming more clear with each passing day that the Obama administration is involved in a massive cover up of the flagrant mishandling of the entire incident.  From CIA agents to military leaders to other State Department personnel – the stories being told about what did and didn’t happen that night are vastly different than those that having been told by the administration.  And with very few exceptions, the mainstream media has backed the administration rather than search for the truth.  It is only in recent days, when the evidence of lies and deceit have become overwhelming, that the mainstream media has begun digging for and reporting facts.

The graduates of Ohio State have a choice – they can search for their own truths or blindly follow the President.  I’m hoping one of the things they learned in school was to think for themselves and find the truth, however painful or disturbing it may be, or however different it may be than the “truth” presented by the government.  This “transparent” administration doesn’t have a great track record for truth.  But of course…  that’s George Bush’s fault.