re: #78 cliffster

Those are both from early in the campaigns, and didn’t really say anything about mandatory service, just a call asking people to serve.

The GIVE/SERVE bills Democrats tried to pass in March of this year contained such language. The provision in the House version of the bill directs Congress to explore
“whether a workable, fair and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic and educational backgrounds.”
The mandatory element may be a “pie in the sky” for Obama, but the language is there nonetheless.