A generation ago, President John F. Kennedy called on Americans to serve their country and they overwhelmingly responded.
Today, at Cornell College in Iowa, Barack Obama is calling on a new generation of Americans to step up, serve their country, and change the world.
Of all the candidates, Barack Obama is the one who, like Kennedy, can inspire a generation of Americans to respond to a call to service. After all, for Obama, public service isn't just a campaign slogan -- it's the cause that has animated his life.
When Barack graduated from college, instead of pursuing wealth on Wall Street, he pursued justice on the streets of Chicago's South Side. After spending three years working as a community organizer, he went to Harvard Law School, where he became editor of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. With that kind of resume under his belt, Obama had his pick of any of the top corporate law firms in the country. But he chose to return to Chicago and serve his community, heading up Project Vote and helping to register 150,000 new African American voters.
Barack Obama is, and always will be a community organizer and a public servant. And today, he's unveiling a plan that will create hundreds of thousands of new opportunities for Americans from all walks of life to serve their communities as well.
Barack Obama's plan to help all Americans serve their country will:
Click here for full details of the plan and stay tuned for more details from Jaime, who's at the speech right now in Iowa.
In the words of Ted Sorensen, John F. Kennedy's speechwriter and advisor, "Senator Obama’s stirring call to public service is the strongest since John F. Kennedy’s 1960 request that all Americans, especially young Americans, ask what they can do for their country.”
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