Beck: Obama "wants to create a civilian army" of "community organizers ... more well-funded than the military"
From the July 27 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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As Media Matters for America has previously noted, Obama's July 2, 2008, comments about the necessity of a "civilian national security force" referred to expanding the Foreign Service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps.
From Obama's July 2, 2008, speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
Today, AmeriCorps -- our nation's network of local, state, and national service programs -- has 75,000 slots. And I know firsthand the quality of these programs. My wife, Michelle, once left her job at a law firm and at City Hall to be a founding director of an AmeriCorps program in Chicago that trains young people for careers in public service. And these programs invest Americans in their communities and their country. They tap America's greatest resource -- our citizens.
And that's why as president, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots and make that increased service a vehicle to meet national goals like providing health care and education, saving our planet and restoring our standing in the world, so that citizens see their efforts connected to a common purpose. People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem -- they are the answer.
So we are going to send -- we're going to send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods all across the country. We will enlist our veterans to find jobs and support for other vets, to be there for our military families. And we're going to grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
We need to use technology to connect people to service. We'll expand USA Freedom Corps to create online networks where Americans can browse opportunities to volunteer. You'll be able to search by category, time commitment, and skill sets; you'll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities. This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda, and make their own change from the bottom up.
You know those pieces in the news you see, especially in the cities, about some middle-aged working-class mother who was sick of seeing her neighbourhood fall to pieces around her? Maybe she lost a son or a husband, maybe even a grandchild, to some horrible act that's been occurring more and more in her part of the city. Or maybe she's just gotten fed up with the poor quality of life in her area. So she starts knocking on doors and getting people better involved in the workings of the city or the state or even the federal government in order to bring about changes. And at one point or another during the piece you see her and a bunch of other people like her, a bunch of mothers, a few fathers, some young people, all marching around the neighbourhood or standing on a street corner or working in a community centre in an effort to reclaim their home. And the piece ends with the reporter saying something half-inspiring, half-congratulatory, so as to both acknowledge their efforts and encourage their continuation.
That woman is a community organizer. She's courageous, driven, a little stubborn, and enough of an idealist to go do something about her surroundings.
Beck, Limbaugh, and anyone else who makes a buzzword of 'community organizer' spits in the face of that woman and everyone else like her. That is what makes them bullies, liars, and frauds.
I mean, really, what did Bruce ever do to you.
Don't forget, it must be the correct faith. No muslims, hindu's, etc.
Hell, he can't even get Congress to fund HealthCare reform. Where's he going to get the money for an Army of pimply-faced community organizers?
it makes me sick to my stomach!!!!
i know that they are a party of propagandists, and that this hypocrisy is to be expected, but they always find a way to get under my skin. i'm sure i'm not the only one who thinks so.