so it was clearly very political. and in the end we didn t even get the olympics anyway. and the only headline that came out of the speech was daley tells students to make the world a better place. have you been doing that? i don t know, am i? yes, she has! i m being here. some sarcasm. i wasn t at my commencement. so i don t even remember who the speaker was. one of my favorite commencements were you off somewhere causing trouble? i was already working. i started working. but one of my favorite speeches it was 2010 at harvard, jimmy tingle, a comedian who went to the john kennedy school was asked to give one of the commencement speeches. it s hysterical because he grew up in cambridge, the son of a taxi cab driver and talks about the time he stole bicycles. so you went to harvard? no, i didn t. you were implying that. on that point maybe it
where are you speaking? if someone wants to pay me i am there. i think it is good the liberal democrats are speaking at commencements because they can explain there are no jobs. and how liberal policies destroy cities. i love commencement speeches. i think it is a good time to celebrate and hopefully you can hear someone interesting even if you don t agree with the political ideas. do you remember who your commencement speaker was? i was in the foreground. what is going on powers? 7-1? this has been happening for a long time. doesn t make it right. i write about this in my book coming out on monday. good plug. what is so strange about it
nor the loss of oh 3,000 people in the september 11 terrorist attack. it was that a celebrity called him a racist. i get it. there was a lot of oh criticism of president bush for faming this kanye west moment as his low point. back up and let s consider it a little more charitably. think of president bush s comments as animated by the same feeling that led ben affleck to hide his distant genetic connection to benjamin cole. shame at being thought of as racist. there is real value in being ashamed of racism. shame serves an important social role, even if painful for the individual. it articulates our public commencements to certain values. the this this case it asserts we will no longer attend a limpbling and stare into the camera lens. the act of shrinking away from a personal connection to racial violence and inequality is a sign of a certain kind of
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[ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. my mom works at ge. it s become an annual tradition here to sample the words of wisdom college graduates get at the commencements. this year the speakers include politicians, an nfl quarterback and a famous ex-wife. and they are all power players of the week. one regret that i ve always had here is i never got to throw any football passes here on this lawn. so if you will up dulg indulge going to fulfill that promise right now. and if you re nervous, i