Obama: What is Mandatory Voluntary Community Service?

According to the new Obama website, Change.gov:

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.

Isn't "community service" what they give some convicted felons as a punishment?

When you choose to serve... the web site starts, you are connected to that fundamental American ideal... And to help you make that decision to "choose to serve," Obama will force you to serve.

This is a significant change from his position outlined in the "National Service Plan Fact Sheet," the ominously titled "Plan for Universal Voluntary Citizen Service."

Kids doing community service, learning how to help others around them, is laudable. Having the federal government mandating and controlling that service is troubling.

As with most things Obama, there are more questions than answers:

• What are the penalties for not "choosing" to serve? Will you not be able to graduate without serving? What about private school students? Private college students?

• Who will run these service programs? Will it be those honorable community groups like ACORN?

• Who will determine what is "acceptable" service?
  

So many unanswered and unanswerable questions, the first of which is why the heck did you people elect this guy?