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Yes, Citizenship!
Give 'em hell, Barry!
For the lazy, the uninterested, and the brain dead, this was directly from his speech.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-obamas-convention-speech-2012-09-06?pagenumber=2
But we also believe in something called citizenship – a word at the very heart of our founding, at the very essence of our democracy; the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another, and to future generations.
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We don’t think government can solve all our problems. But we don’t think that government is the source of all our problems – any more than are welfare recipients, or corporations, or unions, or immigrants, or gays, or any other group we’re told to blame for our troubles.
Because we understand that this democracy is ours.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Give 'em hell, Barry!
For the lazy, the uninterested, and the brain dead, this was directly from his speech.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/text-of-obamas-convention-speech-2012-09-06?pagenumber=2
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