Obama Congratulates JMo
Jordan just tweeted a picture of a congratulatory letter that Barack Obama sent him for his graduation.
"A big thank you to @BarackObama for the congratulations that was sent to my house #Humbled #Inspired pic.twitter.com/WlB0aEIvE8"
https://twitter.com/JustJMo/status/470594746449424384
Really cool to see our student athletes receiving attention from our President, especially one as deserving as Jordan!!!
(don't know how to embed the picture, if somebody else could that'd be awesome)
I wonder who else got that letter? Surely it couldn't be sent to every college graduate, but at the same time it's pretty clearly a form letter. Maybe Jordan was a part of a certain program with ties to the gov or something like that.
Regardless, super cool. I want a letter like that when I graduate.
to a specific request by a family member, friend, professor/coach, etc. . .
I wish people would take their political sarcastic bullshit elsewhere and just realize that it's pretty fucking cool for a college graduate to receive a congrats from the President no matter who he is and what party he represents.
Just be happy for J-Mo...none of us care about your personal political views and it's against board rules to break out into a discussion about them anyway. So save it.
Who has expressed personal political views in this thread? I don't see a single one.
Whigs can suck it, losers.
And there are still downvotes on the thread for no other reason other than Obama.
But the comment that I was referring to was deleted, likely, because it broke board rules.
If so, you probably just replied to a caved user. If I were to delete a comment all of the replies get nuked (many of you have gotten an email to that effect at some point).
Very cool.
Umm as pointed out already I think you're complaining about something that hasn't happened yet in this thread.
...now it's just the downvotes, the comment is gone.
Is there an alternate thread somewhere where everyone is crapping on this?
Why was this thread downvoted? lol. Definitely glad to see JMo get recognized for his accomplishments beyond basketball
Because champswest and IndyWolverine are apparently irritated at the fact that a graduate of the University of Michigan received congratulations from this particular President. Why they would be irritated they don't say, other than JMo is a super secret CIA assassin.
How 'bout that finish to the Indy 500? Awesome stuff.
so eloquently pointed out.
Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with President Obama's politics or policies (and I'm inclined to believe that President Obama might be happy to say, "Go Blue!"), a shoutout from the President of the United States to a University of Michigan graduate would seem to be a "good deal for Michigan."
I got a letter from the White House once, a couple decades ago (as part of a school project where we had to write to the President). The form of the letter looked just like the one in the OP. I don't think there was anything below the President's signature. No idea why there would be anything blurred out on this one.
There's a second signature on that letter, tilt the screen back, it's below the original signature. Not sure why that would be.
On the other hand, if there's any college graduate out there that does deserve a congratulatory letter in which the president took the time to personally write, Jordan would be that guy. I mean, the dude graduated with a masters in engineering while committing probably 30 hours a week for basketball. Now that's impressive. While I was at Michigan it felt like I was always studying; the idea of playing a sport on top of that just seemed quixotic.
They aren't personally written. They're form letters. All politicians do them. The standard procedure is that a person is nominated for accomplishing something unique, significant, or good, the staff reviews it, and if it's approved, a specific letter will be written based off of a prexisting template.
That doesn't take away from the importance of it though. It still has to be approved and then each one is still individually written. The form letter part just signifies that it's based on a loose, preexisting structure. It's still an honor to receive and is pretty swell for JMo!
Two CLASSY guys in my book. Don't understand why the downvote either.
It should surprise no one that an outstanding Michigan student athlete would receive this sort of recognition. The president, after all, answers to the space emperor. We all know who that is.
Dave Brandon?
Obama is a jewel thief.
I'm sure he holds *seven* of them himself.
Who pushed the video?