Reply #33: Because unlike Britney, Paris and Lindsey, [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

Obama is a public servant that inspires and aspires us to a greater good than simply serving ourselves.....which is a rarity amongs politicians.

Unlike the three you mentioned (are you a fan?), he is asking something of us as a nation. And Unlike Hillary, he is running to heal this nation, not running to divide it further....as Hillary has done.

Obama asks graduates for sacrifice, service

In an insistent call to public service and a personal tribute to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Senator Barack Obama challenged graduates of Wesleyan University yesterday to "work side by side to take on the common challenges that confront all of humanity."

Stepping in for the ailing Kennedy, who was scheduled to deliver the university's commencement address before he was diagnosed with a brain tumor last week, Obama told an audience of several thousand to "be unified in service to a greater good," a cause he described as synonymous with the Kennedy family.

"Surely if one man can achieve so much and make such a difference in the lives of so many people, then each of us can do our part," Obama said of Massachusetts' senior senator. "Surely if his service and his story can forever shape America's story, then our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation. At the very least, his living example calls us to try."

Under cloudless blue skies before a supportive crowd that punctuated his words with warm applause, Obama recalled his own decision as a college graduate to work for a small group of churches as a neighborhood organizer in Chicago for "$12,000 a year plus $2,000 for an old, beat-up car," and how the experience gave him purpose and direction. Students, Obama said, owe it to themselves and those less fortunate to serve the common good.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/26/obama_asks_graduates_for_sacrifice_service/