By now you’ve most-likely heard about Barack Obama’s government-backed website Change.gov. The site essentially spouts his campaign’s talking points on issues and talks about his plans for the future. Well, here’s what its section on American community service involvement used to read:

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.

Emphasis mine. He’s going to require citizens to serve America for a pre-determined number of hours in middle school, high school, and college? And how many hours? Fifty to one hundred every year? Good Lord. Why not simply allow Americans who are interested in serving their community serve it voluntarily?

Well, apparently the plan caused quite a stir. An Instapundit reader notes that the wording has now changed to setting a “goal”.

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free.

There’s quite a difference between the two passages. Down the memory hole the old version goes, I guess.