Posted by
Catmman on Sunday, July 13, 2008 11:43:25 AM
In a speech Barack Obama gave on July 2nd, an intrepid observer picked up on this so far non-reported little blurb:
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set," he said. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."
The speech was calling for Americans to get more involved in public service in general and called for expansion of some current public service initiatives - Americorps, that type of thing.
But the language in the excerpted blurb is compelling. "We cannot continue to rely on our military to achieve the national security objectives we've set"? Calling for a civilian force "just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded" as the US military?
There is another reference to this from the Chicago Tribune
here. What is interesting is that I looked around for transcripts of this speech to verify the blurb. I found two copies of the speech (
here and
here). Neither one has the aforementioned material in it. I couldn't find any source material to confirm the blurb, so I figured maybe it was an exagerration or a reporter taking something Obama DID say out of context.
So, is
this the kind of change we can expect, er, believe in?