Obama Commencement Thread
Could you at least save my post and just put it up on it's own accord before deleting the post if you are. I really don't want to have to type it again. (unless that's too OT). (I'm of course talking about saving the TL DR post not my political commentary).
Steady as she goes, Cap'n. She's taking on water, but appears to be basically sound. That is, until the Admiral starts addressing the swabbies...
That's kind of what I figured would happen as well. It's wait and see for me. No promises with the other mods.
I cant find it...
That's what actually blew me away--walking through the entrance to our section and saying "Holy crap I can hardly see the turf!" They had grads packed in there.
The energy was awesome and god help me I thought the Rawk music was a great addition. I sorta thought, for a moment, "shouldn't they play something more stately?" but then when they changed to the more traditional processional warmup stuff I realized that the Beyonce et al was a good mood elevator while waiting.
MGoBoard represent!
the Fox feed is crrrrap
ed: no slightly greater than crap
That is one funky set of academic robes.
looked like OSU
Cambridge
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY off on that one. i was gonna guess cambridge based on the accent and his position at the U, but i was afraid that would come off as too arrogant
That's awesome.
weak to bring that up for a cheap laugh
Pretty sure the grad speaker is an Mgoblog reader
This is a dubious use of graduation convocation.
Granholm's speech? Yeah, it was terrible.
ANGRY MICHIGAN SAFETY HATING GOD, NO!
I thought Granholm's speech was pretty bad (of course, she's just not as charismatic a speaker as Mary Sue and Obama) but as someone that doesn't really care either way (politically), I think all the Obama love was pretty justified. I mean, he's the President. That in itself at a commencement means there will be some complimenting both ways, regardless of who the Prez is.
In other words, who really cares
And Go Blue reference
Drink twice.
fuck it this editor blows
the "source" button to post objects like embedded video, then click the button again to go back to the editor.
you think we could fix the feedback on the mikes
i want to live next to a volcano
I want to live IN a volcano. That's what all the evil super-masterminds do.
I just need to be sure to hire better evil henchmen to protect my lair.
But then you have to watch out for Hockey Bear, destructor of volcanoes.
He's on an asteroid until after hockey season.
This speech has been awesome.
In my defense, that was up to the letters from kids. Since then... the speech has wandered to territories that I dare not discuss.
But the heading.
That's like three times today... HIVE MIND!!!
My initial reaction was more toward your inclusion of "democratic convention". I didn't see Granholm's as I can't get the BTN here.
President was on CNN. Everything else was on BTN only.
Has a full stream on their front page.
Who knew Jefferson was in favor of SUCH DEEDS?
What can you expect?
Dude can speak.
I only caught the end. I didn't see any.
If he didn't make at least one "Go Blue" or "Hail to the Victors" reference I'm going to label his speech as EPIC FAIL.
I would've liked to have seen less of a diatribe on government and more of a focus on the graduates from what I saw.
Big House and Go Blue references.
With Go Blue!
Thought the speech was good but there were missed opportunities to talk about Michigan or address the graduates as, you know, graduates. Most of his speech could have been for any audience, anywhere. Timely topic, but I would have liked to see more of it tailored to those excellent young men and women in caps and gowns.
I'm disappointed, I truly wanted to see him throw a touchdown pass to Mary Sue in the north end zone and it just didn't happen.
He kind of made up for it with the "go blue," though. MSU and OSU both got shoved aside/dissed and ND wasn't even mentioned, so today is a good day.
Can't go wrong with leading by example, though
You want them to awkwardly and embarasingly fumble and drop the football...it was the front page picture of Stanfield's goofy dropped ball that cost him the election vs. Trudeau. It made him look like like a bumbling idiot.
While I would see this as a plus to catch Obama in a similarly awkward photo op, I would rather not see out team re-enact the same fumbles and dropsies.