Obama Commencement Thread
Being of conservative leanings i would love to see him play some catch and pull a "Robert Stanfield"
http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/federal_politics/clips/15767/
C'MON OBAMA, HAIL OBAMA, HAIL!!! ;-)
Edit: I don't mind the negs, because it wasn't clear, obviously, but for the record - I wasn't asking people to "politically Hail Obama"...I just wanted him to lift his arm like 80,000 people around him were during the Victors...he's smart enough to figure it out. But it was a little tongue in cheek. And supposed to be funnier at the time it was posted, right when they played the Victors. Doesn't translate into the future so well, I can see. Just didn't want to give the idea that I was edging the no politics rule (cause I'm fully behind that one).
the Secret Service was in a 4-4 stack. They would usually drop one or two back and send the other two LB inside gaps.
So much for that hope of a non-political speech.
How many more days to football season???
+/- 4 days depending on whether you mean the college football season or Michigan's season..
College football doesn't start until Michigan says it does! :) (Although, I have to admit, if OSU lost to Marshall on that Thursday I'd accept that as the start to the football season :)
EDIT: Seriously? I'm getting negged for being bummed that the speech wasn't non-political? Really? Ok, whatever...
I think you're getting negged on the notion that it's possible for the president to give a non-political speech. What could he talk about that would be non-political? The fact that it's the President giving the speech makes it inherently political.
He is a person just like you and I (in the sense that he's human in in terms of being the leader of the free world). We have a great many differing views about politics on this site and with very rare exception does it get brought up. I'd say that at least a few people on this board are just as passionate about politics as he is but they don't talk about it.
Yeah, maybe it was a pipe dream but I can "hope" right? ;)
Maybe. But really, probably not. Also, this site is about Michigan athletics and has a strict rule about no politics. The graduation speaker was chosen because he is an extremely successful politician. That he should completely avoid talking about politics is a little ridiculous. When Larry Page came, we wouldn't have been happy with a Google advertisement, but it also would have been a little strange had he not mentioned Google.
I think Obama did a good job of the balancing act--he talked about politics because that's what he does and he has important opinions about it--without getting preachy or one-sided and while still directing his comments at the graduates and at how they can create a better world.
And as a counterpoint to the whole idea that the sitting president should generally avoid politics, I think it's pretty cool that Johnson announced his "Great Society" at a University of Michigan commencement.
I completely disagree. The President should be expected to be above partisan politics, especially in a setting such as a commencement address, and I would say this no matter who the President is or what party they are a member of. It's not about politics. There are a lot of different ways that he could have made the points that he did without being blatantly partisan. One of my several commencement speakers was a highly partisian politician who gave a phenomenal and non-political commencement address.
Marine One buzzed my apartment this morning. I ran out onto my apartment balcony to watch Marine One head to the football practice fields.
the fact that so many people left immediately following Obama's speech was utterly classless. I understand that a lot went to see the president, but I wish that more people would have shown a little more respect for the graduates, as the day was for them.
And while his speech was cool enough, the best part of the whole thing for me was the commissioning of the ROTC students. I'm not normally one for military stuff, but that was moving beyond belief.
All those people missed that. Shame.
how many servicemen get commisioned by the president? was really awesome that we all got to stand for it too and the crowd (that remained) showed a ton of respect.
Jenny was interviewing for her next job.
And this was not the place. Whoever on her staff didn't tell her to turn it around and talk about these Michigan businesses in the context of addressing the graduates with these Michigan work and research opportunities was as bad as whoever let ND post that embarrassing video.
Life inside the echo chamber.....
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