Posted on 05/26/2015 12:19:44 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Michelle Obama tells Oberlin College graduates to ‘shape the revolutions of your time’
BY ADAM EDELMAN
First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged graduates at Oberlin College on Sunday to “rise above the noise and shape the revolutions of your time."
Speaking at the commencement ceremony for the northeastern Ohio liberal arts college, Obama urged graduates to “actively seek out the most contentious, polarized, gridlocked places you can find” and lay the groundwork for change.
“Because so often, throughout our history,” Obama said, “those have been the places where progress really happens — the places where minds are changed, lives transformed, where our great American story unfolds.”
Obama, who received an honorary degree from the college, drew on the lessons of the struggles for women’s suffrage and civil rights as well as the political battle Franklin Delano Roosevelt experienced in trying to get his “New Deal” legislation passed, telling those in attendance that while democracy may be “messy,” it “works.”
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“actively seek out the most contentious, polarized, gridlocked places you can find” and lay the groundwork for change.
Somebody has to counter these nincompoops.
Don’t worry about Moochelle, she is lost in the 60’s. What an angry, bitter woman.
These overgrown hippies are a plight on this country.
Well, they probably will be shapes in their generation's revolution.
Dare she say that at a Mosque!!!!
That evil witch is as far left, if not more so, than her communist husband.
How are a bunch of liberal arts majors going to shape the world, start slipping decaf in my mochafrappelattechino?
You live in the wealthiest, freest country with more opportunity than anywhere else on earth... BUT you need to f%$# it up with a ‘revolution’? Really?
They’re doing it thru the teachers with indoctrination of young people and thru “journalists” with indoctrination of everyone else. THats for starters.
How about Michelle accepting forty acres and a mule—in Liberia?
Commie-speak.
The Wookiee’s 15 minutes is also almost up
Don’t you just love when millionaire liberals say this kind of stuff? I just looked up her net worth: $11.8 million. That’s JUST her. Barack is at $12 million......
I think they only “revolution” that needs to be going on here is law enforcement, investigate politicians who seem to always make these huge sums of money on upper middle class salaries paid for by the taxpayers.
What is the POTUS salary? $400K? So after taxes he’s taking home $200k? Yet they have a combined net worth of $23 million dollars. Did substitute teaching at Harvard pay millions? Does community organizing pay millions? Did his communist manifesto book “Dreams of my commie father” pay that much? From what I remember he wrote that in 1995 on a $40k book advance. Did it sell THAT much?
I just looked it up, he did an abridged version when he was elected that netted him another $500k advance. Did it sell THAT much?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_from_My_Father
Ungrateful Wookie PING!
All I can say is, there had better not be any “revolution shaping” going on around my family or my property. That’s exactly what these race baiters are encouraging and it will not end well for the 20%. I haven’t talked to anyone lately that isn’t fed completely up with watching these idiots burn and pillage. Perception of danger takes valuable seconds off firing time. They sure aren’t doing anything to make anyone think twice.
It’s only a matter of time until they feel emboldened enough by empty headed people like Michelle to carry their criminal attacks further into private neighborhoods. As a matter of fact, it’s already escalating. So are the people who refuse to allow these animals to invade their homes and who shoot them without hesitation. Home invasions are up here but so are dead perpetrators. Keep instigating Michelle! You and your husband already have a lot of innocent blood on your hands.
But whatever you accomplish, by the Obamas’ lights you didn’t build/accomplish/earn it. It belongs to the state.
That quote by Obummer explains exactly where his head is at. He is completely devoid of understanding reality, the fact is the government HINDERS business. Start a business, you have to go through 20 billion regulations, not to mention paying off the shake downs. When I lived in NYC the liberal sewer hole of the east coast, a friend of mine had to close his newsstand store because the city was constantly harassing him with fines, throwing thousands of dollars of tickets at him for the most ridiculous things like cash register display below the proper height, cigarette display not proper distance from counter, cash refund sign no proper height from floor. I saw the tickets, it was no different from the Mafia coming in and shaking him down. He didn’t make that? No, the government PREVENTED him from making that!
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