CNSNews: After saying he would not "get partisan," Obama got a little partisan, telling the students to reject the notion that big government is sinister.No, Mr. President...all they suggest, to paraphrase a great president, is that more government, bigger government, is not the solution to our problems; but this brand of unlimited government, Obama's kind of government, is the problem. His statist double speak never ends...
First, he talked about doing "big things together that we could not possibly do alone." Those big things, he said, include building transportation systems, education and health care networks, conquering "fascism and disease," visiting the Moon and Mars, and securing "our God-given rights for all of our citizens, regardless of who they are or what they look like, or who they love."
"We, the people, chose to do these things together -- because we know this country cannot accomplish great things if we pursue nothing greater than our own individual ambition.
"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 doing their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.
"You should reject these voices," the president told the graduates. "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.
"We have never been a people who place all of our faith in government to solve our problems; we shouldn't want to. But we don't think the government is the source of all our problems, either."
Related link: Obama Tells Ohio State Grads to Reject the "Voices" Warning of Government Tyranny -- and Join the Collective
ADDENDUM: Mark Levin takes apart 'Mr. Paranoid'...
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