And of course what this is is the government getting involved in something that used to be the domain of churches, community groups, boy and girl scouts.
But really, is it such a bad thing to encourage people to volunteer - especially in black communities? Get kids off the streets and into volunteer programs where they're actually helping people instead of spending their time hanging out on street corners?
Rush has a different view of it - and I don't agree with his take.
RUSH: George Bush yesterday, the 9/11 memorials. You know, a friend of mine observed this. What did Obama do? Obama went to a soup kitchen, 9/11, a day of service, as though we've got something to apologize for, for what happened on 9/11. A friend of mine observes Obama and Bloomberg both acted like it was a natural disaster.
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The president of the United States on 9/11, the president who wrecked our economy, shows up in a soup kitchen on 9/11 to honor... what? What do you honor? What does a soup kitchen have to do with 9/11? What are you honoring?
That our country has no jobs? A soup kitchen! All for the purposes of spreading his notion of what we should be doing on 9/11, a day of service? "President Obama and his family volunteered at a soup kitchen to help underscore his call to a national service that he has emphasized as a way to commemorate the terror attacks of 9/11." Now, doesn't making the anniversary of 9/11 into a day of service make it seem like we're the ones who have to make amends? Community service? That's, in many cases, part of a punishment that's handed out to people or a deal that's made with them. We have something to apologize for, to be sorry about; that America was somehow in the wrong, that we have to do something to make up for it, so we must have a day of service.
I'm gonna tell you, 9/11's always gonna be a day of remembrance multiply and when Obama shows up at a soup kitchen, it reminds all of us to remember that it is Obama who put all the people who were in the soup kitchen in the soup kitchen! Obama is going to the soup kitchen to visit the beneficiaries of his policies...on 9/11. Folks, even if that was not Obama's intended purpose behind call for a day of service on 9/11, isn't that how it would be perceived by a lot of people around the world, especially in the Muslim world? Isn't this the same White House that's so obsessed with creating precisely the right optics? How can they be this tone deaf? On 9/11, nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered for doing nothing more than going to work, not going to a soup kitchen!
They were going to work; they were murdered. The president of the United States says we need a day of service and he goes to a soup kitchen. Either this is intentional or they're tone deaf -- and his personal penance, his day of service is to help make meals for the poor? Was that what 9/11 was all about, the poor not having enough to eat? The unjust distribution of food, is that what 9/11 was all about? The lack of social justice in the world? In actual fact, most of the 9/11 hijackers were from quite wealthy families. We know this now. They came from a country, Saudi Arabia, where nobody goes hungry. They may have an appendage cut off here and there but nobody goes hungry.
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