Right… slavery.
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.
In his speech on national service Wednesday at the University of Colorado, Obama promised that as president he would “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.”
This is a patently absurd argument for the sole purpose of drama-queen’d attention grab (which is why it gets the Malkin award from Sullivan), which Jeff lays out pretty clearly .
Congrats Jeff on getting some pretty sweet national attention.


I love thee, dear brother of mine. And I cannot believe someone would say something like that. Aaaaaammmmaaaazing.