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.
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