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Sunday, Barack gave a speech at Wesleyan University (taking the place of the ill Ted kennedy). As part of the spech, he said the following:

“No one is forcing you to care,” he said. “You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should buy.”

“But I hope you don’t, because our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation.”

“At a time of war, we need you to work for peace,” he said.

“At a time of inequality, we need you to work for opportunity. At a time of so much cynicism and so much doubt, we need you to make us believe again.”

Invoking his life journey to public service, the Senator said, “I spent much of my childhood adrift. Through service, I discovered how my own improbable story fit into the larger story of America.”

Senator Obama concluded, that like the presidency of John F. Kennedy, he too will call on the country to united “in service to a greater good.”

“I intend to make it a cause of my presidency.”

I like that. I like that a lot…instead of stomping on toes and ignoring people in need, you take what you know and try to make things better - it’s simple freaking karma!

Of note:
► Last year, 8,000 attended the college’s 175th anniversary celebration.
► Wesleyan officials estimated todays crowd at 25,000…