President Barack Obama spoke about the importance of citizenship in his commencement address at Ohio State University on May 5, 2013 asking the class of 2013 to participate and persevere in their defense of democracy.

“I think it’s fair to say our democracy isn’t working as well as we know it can. It could do better.”

Ok.. let’s stop right there… should we REALLY have to explain to the President what type of government we have? We’ll take that up in a later post, though, so let’s move along.

“So briefly, I’ll ask for two things from the Class of 2013: to participate, and to persevere. After all, your democracy does not function without your active participation. At a bare minimum, that means voting, eagerly and often — not having somebody drag you to it at 11:30 a.m. when you’re having breakfast. (Laughter.) It means knowing who’s been elected to make decisions on your behalf, and what they believe in, and whether or not they delivered on what they said they would.” –

Could we PLEASE hold the president to this standard? After all, HE was the one that said it!

“That’s how our political system gets consumed by small things when we are a people called to do great things — like rebuild a middle class, and reverse the rise of inequality, and repair the deteriorating climate that threatens everything we plan to leave for our kids and our grandkids.”

We’re not a democracy… we’re not a socialist country either. OK… I’ll quit interrupting and let him speak.

” And, yes, we still face many important challenges.”

“To repair the middle class, to give more families a fair shake, to reject a country in which only a lucky few prosper because that’s antithetical to our ideals and our democracy”

“To educate more children at a younger age, and to reform our high schools for a new time, and to give more young people the chance to earn the kind of education that you did at The Ohio State University, and to make it more affordable so young people don’t leave with a mountain of debt”

“To build better roads and airports and faster Internet, and to advance the kinds of basic research and technology that’s always kept America ahead of everybody else”

“To confront the threat of climate change before it’s too late”

“To protect more of our kids from the horrors of gun violence”

“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.”

REALLY?!?!? Did I just hear that right?

Ok. from here on out it’s just my opinion and my voice. While many things in this address bothered me, the final paragraph took the prize. It shows EXACTLY how the liberal progressive movement works. If you disagree with what they believe, they reject you. You don’t even have the right to voice your opinion.

This is from the mouth of President Obama. I didn’t spin it. I didn’t take it out of context. He actually said that the voices that are warning that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner should be rejected. I say that tyranny STARTS when the leaders begin silencing any opposition! President Obama’s administration is a perfect example of this. Does your group oppose the liberal agenda? Let’s turn the IRS on them! Are you reporting something we don’t like? Let’s turn the DOJ on you! Are you burning the American flag in your country and giving arms and support to Muslim extremists? Let’s give them some money!

It is a sad day in this country when the leader of the free world is more concerned with attacking Americans who legitimately disagree with him, than with protecting Americans serving our country around the world. In his eyes there is more danger from Fox News than there is from radical Islam.

I don’t guess any of this matters though. After all… I’m just another one of those voices you should reject.