The Government Is Not Us

Conn Carroll /

This past Saturday President Barack Obama turned the commencement speech at the University Michigan into a full-throated defense of his big government agenda.

At this Monday’s Heritage Foundation President’s Club meeting, nationally syndicated talk-show host and New York Times Best-Selling author Mark Levin responded:

In a speech on Saturday, Obama said that “what troubles me is when I hear people say that all of government is inherently bad. When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that our democracy, government is us.” He added that “Throwing around phrases like ‘socialists’ and ‘Soviet-style takeover,’ ‘fascists’ and ‘right-wing nut’ – that may grab headlines,” but it also “closes the door to the possibility of compromise…At its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response.” (more…)