A thoughtful and enjoyable speech...We are going to miss that guy.
President Obama @ RU Commencement (merged)
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Where did Obama mention handouts?
See here is where the Obama derangement syndrome kicks in. Wall Street has done better under Obama than they have in years. Unemployment is lowest in decades.
Who is exactly is getting the handouts? Could it be the companies not paying taxes? Could it be CEOs using bankruptcy 4 times to avoid financial obligations? The only takers are the corporations.
Yet the same people look past the 4 bankruptcies and latch onto illegal immigrants- who give more taxes than they take and do jobs Americans refuse to do time and again- Muslims who make higher than average American income in the US- and China.
Obama didn't mention social programs. He mentioned climate change a few feet from a river that overflows on a regular basis. And he mentioned ignorance, and that certain Republicans were offended by that tells you everything you needed to know if you didn't know 30% of the country is dumb enough to vote for someone who talks about "wages are too high" and "I love the poorly educated" in between calling the 5th largest American ethnic group rapists and calling to ban the mayor of London and the leaders of countries we were told Obama neglected from entering the country altogether.
Don't think anybody (at least not me) said he mentioned those things.
A reply to George Street about Washington politics and claims that Republicans were obstructionists. I simply pointed out that it was a shame that such a comment was posted in a thread about a big day in Rutgers history and that Harry Reid was actually responsible for holding up more legislation than anyone. The comment got some likes too.
Oh yeah, I did see that and wouldn't have thought it was edit-worthy, but I'm guessing the mods are being very careful to prevent the usual bickering, or worse, from breaking out. It looks like both posts were deleted, which is, at least, even-handed.
Just to be clear, I deleted both posts: the original because it was what it was, the response because it had the original quoted. I'm trying to keep this thread focused on the fact we had the president speaking at our commencement and avoid having it devolve into partisan bickering.
nothing about my post was angry. I just thought it was hilarious somebody used the Yahoo comments section to make a point.
lordy, this must be taking things out of context day. nobody said YOU were angry. glad you were amused by two specific yahoo comments that were use to make a point. wasn't saying it was the basis of the Eagleton and/or Quinnipiac polls. But the sentiment mirrors comments I have overheard from REAL people in person. That's all. Have HEARD lots of regular folks saying they are tired of both parties and want an outsider as President, which is in line with Yahoo comments. And some of these people are downright angry about the current political situation. It doesn't affect me a ton. I just means I will pay more or less taxes, but I am hoping Bernie Sanders gets elected so that my kids can go to college for free. That will save me a few hundred thousand dollars.
Brilliant day! After 25 years of often negative scandal driven news and publicity, Rutgers hits a home run.
Rutgers' symbol may be a Scarlet R, but the institution more closely embodies Duke's blue D. The school will never welcome a Republican.
The New Yorker.....
NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama handed the Republican Party a gift for the general election by making a series of offensive pro-knowledge remarks at Rutgers University over the weekend, a leading Republican official said on Monday.
According to Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, the President’s inflammatory comments, in which he offered full-throated praise for such controversial fields of knowledge as math and science, are sure to come back to haunt the Democrats in November.
“If President Obama was trying to alienate millions of Americans in one speech, mission accomplished,” Priebus told Fox News. “When I watched him speak, I said to myself, ‘Well, Christmas came early this year.’ ”
While many Republicans expected Obama to walk back his ill-advised praise of knowledge, facts, and evidence, the White House as of Monday morning had refused to do so.
“The President seems to be doubling down on this, which is not surprising,” Priebus said. “This is a man who never met a fact he didn’t like.”
The R.N.C. chairman said that the Party was already creating negative ads that would make extensive use of the President’s polarizing pro-knowledge rant.
“This fall, we will ask the American people, ‘Do you want four more years of knowledge, or do you want something else?’ ” Priebus said. “Because the Republican Party has something else.”
NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama handed the Republican Party a gift for the general election by making a series of offensive pro-knowledge remarks at Rutgers University over the weekend, a leading Republican official said on Monday.
According to Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, the President’s inflammatory comments, in which he offered full-throated praise for such controversial fields of knowledge as math and science, are sure to come back to haunt the Democrats in November.
“If President Obama was trying to alienate millions of Americans in one speech, mission accomplished,” Priebus told Fox News. “When I watched him speak, I said to myself, ‘Well, Christmas came early this year.’ ”
While many Republicans expected Obama to walk back his ill-advised praise of knowledge, facts, and evidence, the White House as of Monday morning had refused to do so.
“The President seems to be doubling down on this, which is not surprising,” Priebus said. “This is a man who never met a fact he didn’t like.”
The R.N.C. chairman said that the Party was already creating negative ads that would make extensive use of the President’s polarizing pro-knowledge rant.
“This fall, we will ask the American people, ‘Do you want four more years of knowledge, or do you want something else?’ ” Priebus said. “Because the Republican Party has something else.”
No, they're really not both to blame. Not even close. When you have an entire major political party refusing to even recognize the very legitimacy of the President (and we all know why that is, *dog whistle* my fellow republicans), refusing to confirm judges they themselves unanimously confirmed previously, refusing to do anything whatsoever to actually, yknow, govern the country, and when you entire political platform is, and this is literally true, to oppose everything that Obama is for, then no, it's not "both sides" fault. Playing this soft game of wording and faux reasonableness is just as toxic and culpable as the worst of the worst in the horrific "tea party", full of lunatics, dimwits, science deniers, religious extremists, xenophobe and racists.
lol, almost Onion-esque, although I guess you could say the Onion is often New Yorker-esque, given the rich history of satire in the New Yorker...
I haven't really read too much of this thread, I have my own opinions, but no one cares. LOL.
But, the part of the speech I thought was ridiculous was his claim that teen pregnancies and crime are down in the last fifty years. Beyond that, I thought it was a good speech for a Commencement.
But, the part of the speech I thought was ridiculous was his claim that teen pregnancies and crime are down in the last fifty years. Beyond that, I thought it was a good speech for a Commencement.
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