Audio: Obama: Collectivism we can believe in...
By Rizzuto

Tue Jun 10, 2008 - This is some audio from Obama's commencement address at Weselyan college (the Berkeley of Connecticut as Wilkow calls it.) Notice the language he uses to berate the idea of the individual striving for personal goals. He makes reference to “the money culture” and our “individual salvation” being dependent upon our “collective salvation”.

That’s right; the millionaire is telling you that your individual wants and needs must take a back seat to “hitching your wagon to something larger than yourself”. This is 1:10 seconds of socialism folks…







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johnbrush commented, on June 10, 2008 at 6:11 p.m.:

I attended the Wesleyan University commencement and made a video (you tube). University President Michael Roth who preceded, and introduced, Barack Obama, spoke along similar lines as Obama. Some excerpts:
....you, will contribute to shaping our culture in the future, because otherwise it will be shaped by people for whom creativity and change, freedom and equality, diversity and tolerance, are much too threatening. We are counting on you to help shape our culture, so that it will not be shaped by forces of oppression and violence....

Violence remains one of the sad, disturbing parts of our lives. It is the loud noise that keeps us from hearing the music of the world. Violence not only destroys meaning, but it has the potential to disrupt our very capacity to make future meaning. Wesleyan University resists that violence,...

You will hear people tell you that the greatest protection against violence is surveillance, that greater security is developed with higher fences to keep out the foreigners, or that we must project violence on distant shores to keep our homes safe. DO NOT BELIEVE THESE MESSAGES.