Can I hear an amen?

I was listening to the Mark Levin show tonight and he played a clip from a Barack Obama speech that I couldn't believe. It's from the commencement address that he delivered at Wesleyan University back in May. In it he calls upon the graduates to undertake service. That's all fine and dandy but there's a passage here that is really scary to me:

Each of you will have the chance to make your own discovery in the years to come. And I say “chance” because you won’t have to take it. There’s no community service requirement in the real world; no one forcing you to care. You can take your diploma, walk off this stage, and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should by. You can choose to narrow your concerns and live your life in a way that tries to keep your story separate from America’s.

But I hope you don’t. Not because you have an obligation to those who are less fortunate, though you do have that obligation. Not because you have a debt to all those who helped you get here, though you do have that debt.

It’s because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential and discover the role you’ll play in writing the next great chapter in America’s story.

Any atrocity or injustice can be justified by simply stating that it's for the collective good. Your "wants and needs", not important if they conflict the collective salvation. We're a blog about Cuba for Pete's sake! Is anybody out there really listening to what this Marxist douchebag is saying?

I did a little Google search for the phrase "Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation" and found that not only did he use that line at Wesleyan but he used it at another commencement at Xavier in 2006.

He used a variation of the phrase in 2004 when he was promoting his book "Dreams from my father":

My individual salvation depends on our collective salvation.

Then I found that this charlatan has been peddling this line since 1998. In a radio interview that year he said:

...my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country. Um unfortunately I think that recognition requires that we make sacrifices and this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifices necessary to bring about a new day and a new age.

You know what Barack? You can keep your sacrifices for the collective salvation, to hell with YOUR individual salvation, and to hell with your "new day and a new age." How about you get lost with your commie bullshit?

Rhetorical question: What would happen if a conservative Republican politician like Rick Santorum said: "our individual salvation depends on collective salvation"?

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at October 15, 2008 12:43 AM

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