OBAMA is speaking to the West Point graduating class right now. What an "obamanation." So at this time I wanted to post THE most important WEST POINT COMMENCEMENT SPEECH of all time. Save it to disk & pass it along.
1 posted on
05/22/2010 8:06:19 AM PDT by
FreeKeys
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2 posted on
05/22/2010 8:08:24 AM PDT by
FreeKeys
("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." -- Ayn Rand)
To: FreeKeys
Bttt
Interesting to read this after watching the pathetic performance by President Obama (ahem) at West Point this morning.
To: FreeKeys
It will be interesting to do a compare and contrast.
5 posted on
05/22/2010 8:36:19 AM PDT by
Excellence
(Meet your new mother-in-law, the United States Government.)
To: FreeKeys
To: FreeKeys
It would be instructive to know the reactions to those two commencements. And to know where the graduates of ‘74 are today. We’ll have a long time to wait to know where Obama’s will be. Hopefully, we’ll still be here by then!
7 posted on
05/22/2010 9:16:43 AM PDT by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: FreeKeys
Thank you so much for this antidote, it is much needed and greatly appreciated.
To: FreeKeys
Obamadinejad will probably hand out a medal for restraint with each diploma.
11 posted on
05/22/2010 9:57:40 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: FreeKeys
15 posted on
05/22/2010 10:32:21 AM PDT by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
To: FreeKeys
This is a great piece of American literature from one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
There is so much value in these ideas, if only our “institutions of higher learning” were worthy of that name.
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17 posted on
05/22/2010 10:47:19 AM PDT by
Publius
(Unless the Constitution is followed, it is simply a piece of paper.)
To: FreeKeys
Just WOW, now that is a speech. Thanks for posting it.
18 posted on
05/22/2010 11:43:03 AM PDT by
unique
To: FreeKeys
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Ayn Rand’s 1974 commencement speech at West Point.
20 posted on
05/22/2010 12:38:19 PM PDT by
Publius
(Unless the Constitution is followed, it is simply a piece of paper.)
To: FreeKeys
I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue. Enlightened self-interest, not altruism.
21 posted on
05/22/2010 1:49:06 PM PDT by
IronJack
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To: FreeKeys
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I can say--not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots--that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
How few citizens today know that.
To: FreeKeys
Every word of this speech was carefully crafted by Ayn Rand, **herself**!
Obama’s speech was likely written by a Bryn Mawr twit.
To: Travis McGee
In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic.bttt
To: FreeKeys
Uh, Bo Calloway was the commencement speaker for the West Point graduating class of 1974.
34 posted on
05/24/2010 11:27:12 AM PDT by
Auntie Mame
(Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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