Posted by BEN BEAUMONT – NPR’s “All Things Considered” has an item this morning on the presidential candidates’ views of public service. Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama has called for expansion of the military and Peace Corps, while Republican John McCain has said that American leaders should have issued a greater call to public service after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Both candidates boast extensive backgrounds in public service — McCain as a Vietnam War veteran and former POW and Obama as a community organizer in Chicago.
While the NPR story lays out the differences in the candidates’ philosophies toward service, we at the Clinton School love to see both of them making serivce a focus of their campaigns. As the first graduate school in the nation to offer a Master of Public Service Degree, we believe in the importance of educating the next generation of public servants. Click here for the NPR story.