SEATTLE, Washington - I think all the Obama voters are so busy patting themselves on the back for being so Cool and Hip and Progressive and Tolerant and Not-An-Evil-Republican that they're failing to notice the garbage appearing on the official President-elect web site.
After all, what better way to celebrate a black man becoming President than introducing a broad new suite of involuntary servitude programs?
President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.
Found at Little Green Footballs
UPDATE 11/9 10pm: LGF is chronicling the backpedaling on the requirement of involuntary servitude. Hopefully, while they're at it, they delete all the other nonsense on change.gov.
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Aside from the fact that no citizen should obviously be forced to do this from a legal standpoint, *forcing* someone to volunteer their time takes away the warm and fuzzy feeling they get from doing it out of their own free will. This may sour many young people from volunteering later on in life.
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