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Obama Delivers Uninspiring, Politically-Charged Virtual Commencement Speech
townhall.com ^ | 5/17/2020 | Bronson Stocking

Posted on 05/17/2020 6:27:01 AM PDT by rktman

Barrack Obama gave a virtual commencement speech on Saturday in which the former president criticized the Trump administration's leadership amid the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Obama addressed over 27,000 students at 78 historically black colleges and universities. The former president couldn't fill the graduation speech up with just "hope and change," so graduates had to suffer through partisan attacks.

Obama told the graduates their "timing is not ideal" before lamenting the "inequalities and extra burdens" blacks currently face, such as the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on black communities and the recent shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Not exactly the most inspiring message to give young graduates.

"You're being asked to find your way in a world in the middle of a devastating pandemic and a terrible recession," Obama noted. "The timing is not ideal. And let's be honest: a disease like this just spotlights the underlying inequalities and extra burdens that black communities have historically had to deal with in this county. We see it in the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on our communities, just as we see it when a black man goes or a jog and some folks feel like they can stop and question and shoot him if he does not submit to their question."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; stoopidness; thewon
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OFFS! Then again, NOT surprising from this POS. From racis' virus to racis' economy to racis' dudes in Georgia. Par for the course from the dividers. His screed about the racis' inequality sounds like he had a beer summit with the ever brilliant bruthee springsteen. Hey, obxxx-----phu cough!
1 posted on 05/17/2020 6:27:01 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

obambam needs to fade away into obscurity or get indicted.


2 posted on 05/17/2020 6:28:18 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: rktman

Obama is a lame, pillow biting, criminal punk.


3 posted on 05/17/2020 6:28:34 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: rktman

The Kenyanesian Usurper belongs in Gitmo or he’ll be plaguing us forever.


4 posted on 05/17/2020 6:30:07 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

Don’t blame Obama... Blame the one who Invited him to give it.

Everyone knew darn well what the class of 2020 was going to get from it.


5 posted on 05/17/2020 6:34:31 AM PDT by Safrguns
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To: rktman

Did he need a teleprompter?


6 posted on 05/17/2020 6:35:49 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: rktman

No enemedia cheering him on, no adoring crowd. That’s all he is/was. [Note, it would be great to show those graduates receiving his speech bored out of their minds.]

The same muddled mess (learned a new word today, farrago) passed as brilliant deep thoughts dazzling the mass unwashed before, now showed plainly as nothing but word salad put together by an amateur chef.

Obama only has two schticks - hate-filled race-baiting (division) and GOTV (encouraging Leftists voters scam) - getting grotesquely rich along the way. Not a bad gig if you can get it.


7 posted on 05/17/2020 6:39:43 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
This prison barge docked at Guantanamo Bay will accommodate thousands


8 posted on 05/17/2020 6:40:59 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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It was to bash Trump and to send a very clear signal to all democrats and the media that the battle has started, and that they are to use all their weapons to defeat Trump.

This year’s election campaign is very different. It is being conducted under the camouflage of the Covid19 epidemic, but it is being conducted with as much vigor as in other years.


9 posted on 05/17/2020 6:42:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government more than the bug.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Imagine what it would be like if you were a student at one of these places where he was to deliver the main speech at your commencement and you were to walk out as soon as he started speaking (go have a cigarette or just a breath of fresh air) and come back when he was done.


10 posted on 05/17/2020 6:46:04 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: rktman

He didn’t have his golden teleprompter nor his deep-state agents writing his speeches for him.


11 posted on 05/17/2020 6:47:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: rktman

This Hatemonger is the de facto nominee, not Joey Badfingers. He’s the capo behind the Resistance, Insurrection and attempted decapitation of the Executive Branch, stoking up the fires of racial animus once again. Ever the Community Organizer, the dude’s low class trash.


12 posted on 05/17/2020 6:47:45 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: yldstrk

Reverse the order - indict then fade - IMO.


13 posted on 05/17/2020 6:50:59 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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What’s the official count on the “I’s, me’s, and my’s” from the vile, jug-eared, moronic POS’ blathering “speech”?


14 posted on 05/17/2020 6:51:55 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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n b c Willie goest this morning bubbled up over this.
You can’t fix stupid.


15 posted on 05/17/2020 6:52:14 AM PDT by Recompennation
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OFFS indeed!

Obama told the graduates their "timing is not ideal" before lamenting the "inequalities and extra burdens" blacks currently face, such as the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on black communities and the recent shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.

Groan. Same old same old victimization and woe-is-us garbage. Are blacks the only students graduating this spring?

16 posted on 05/17/2020 6:52:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Quentin Quarantino

I don’t think he’s that bright. Maybe the puppet master feeding him crap.


17 posted on 05/17/2020 6:54:21 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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I’ll pass. I can’t stand the way he smacks his lips when he speaks.


18 posted on 05/17/2020 6:58:41 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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“I don’t think he’s that bright. Maybe the puppet master feeding him crap.”

Yes, I agree and couldn’t figure a way to say it in my post. He’s a hollow man, but cunning and quick to deceive, the front man of the Cabal. Not one wizard but many are behind the blue curtain soaked in the blood of Innocents.


19 posted on 05/17/2020 7:12:55 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: I want the USA back

If that’s the
Beginning Shot,
It’s very Boring.


20 posted on 05/17/2020 7:15:22 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (He Hath Not Given Us A Spirit Of Fear)
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