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Idiocy or Intentional Media Manipulation: Jonah Goldberg Edition

If you heard Barack Obama say that he wants to "set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year," would this be your response?

There’s a weird irony at work when Sen. Barack Obama, the black presidential candidate who will allegedly scrub the stain of racism from the nation, vows to run afoul of the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.

For those who don’t remember, the 13th Amendment says: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime … shall exist within the United States."

I guess in Obama’s mind it must be a crime to be born or to go to college.

You would if you were the author of this book.

Posted by Jonathan Stein on 07/08/08 at 6:43 AM | Comments (0) | Email | Print

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