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.

From the first link:

” Obama suggested a year or two of mandatory national service be tied to loan forgiveness.”

I’ll grant that these are not recent, but it at least shows what his vision of volunteerism is. Now, if you want to argue that he often says things he doesn’t mean, I have no defense.