Headline Correction: Gore tells Carnegie Mellon Watermelon graduates they can become heroes...
Posted on 05/18/2008 8:51:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
PITTSBURGH (AP) Former Vice President Al Gore on Sunday told graduates of Carnegie Mellon University they could become part of the next ''hero generation'' in American history by solving environmental problems.
In a commencement address before a record crowd of about 10,000 people, the Nobel laureate said there had already been two ''special generations'' of Americans: one that founded the country and another that defeated fascism during World War II.
''You, I hope and expect, will be called upon to be part of the third hero generation in American history,'' now that the U.S. is poised to reclaim its rightful place as the leader of the world as it faces the threat of global warming, he said.
''We face a planetary emergency,'' Gore said. ''The concentrations of global warming pollution have been rising at an unprecedented pace and have now given the planet a fever.''
Carnegie Mellon had provided ''great leadership in confronting what I regard as the most serious crisis our civilization has ever confronted,'' partly by becoming a major buyer of retail wind power, he said.
Alternative energy sources such as the sun and wind can replace fossil fuels, Gore said, but ''we need one ingredient that you represent. We need political will; we need your dedication; we need your hearts.''
Another speaker at the ceremony was Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon professor with terminal cancer whose inspiring ''last lecture'' about childhood dreams made him an Internet video sensation.
Pausch said he was told in August it was unlikely he would live for more than three to six more months, but that he was now surviving into his ninth month.
''We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully,'' he said. ''I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.''
What matters, he said, is that he can look back and say, ''pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.''
About 2,200 graduate and undergraduate degrees were to be conferred during the ceremony at the university's Gesling Stadium in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood.
Gore, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, received an honorary doctorate in humane letters.
Among the other recipients of honorary degrees were Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com; Norman R. Augustine, retired chairman and chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp.; Elizabeth Catlett, artist; Nam P. Suh, president of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Patrick Suppes, a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
That "special generation" that fought at Normandy, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, and in other far away places did not just defeat fascism but a rather pernicious instance of socialism. After all, that's what Nazis are: National Socialists. Sadly, it took another generation to bring down the Nazis' cohorts in the Soviet Union.
Wake up and smell the irony in Mr. Gore's words; it's quite delicious. He extols the virtues of defeating socialists while simultaneously promoting his own socialist wet dream, otherwise known as "man-made climate change." I trust that enough of Carnegie Mellon's newest alumni are smart enough to see through this charade.
That said, I heard from friends at Carnegie Mellon who were complaining about the length of their graduation ceremony, including the speeches.
This GORE Guy is definitely a Do as I say not as I do...Poltiboro type.. Marxist Philosopher type
Headline Correction: Gore tells Carnegie Mellon Watermelon graduates they can become heroes...
HEH.... I knew there was a joke that I was just missing in that. Glad you thought of it :-)
CMU ping.
“In a commencement address before a record crowd of about 10,000 people, the Nobel laureate said there had already been two ‘’special generations’’ of Americans: one that founded the country and another that defeated fascism during World War II.”
I guess The Civil War and WWI were just walks in the park.
“”For only 19.95 +S&H
You, too.....can own your very own....” “
Gore is the Billy Mays of “climate change”.
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