The Democrat Draft

I thought something looked a little different last night- LGF captures the changes that the Obama team are making to their website.

Before-

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

After-

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free.

Of course, simply removing the word "require" doesn't change his plans just the presentation of them. We can always remind people what Michelle Obama warned them about-

“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation and that you move out of your comfort zone. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual – uninvolved, uninformed – you have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.”

There we have it again- Obama will require it of you. Not ask but require and demand. Not "you should" but "you will have to".

See also this post.

UPDATE - He might have scrubbed this language from his .gov website but the material still exists on his Barack Obama website. Screen cap below. There's also a pdf of his service plan hosted at the campaign site.