Posted on 05/15/2010 6:37:04 PM PDT by Steelfish
Pelosi Tells Mills College Grads To 'Be Ready'
John King May 15, 2010
The 500-plus students who received degrees and certificates at Mills College in Oakland on Saturday were sent into the world by another graduate of a women's college: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In a commencement speech that steered clear of partisan politics, Pelosi emphasized the personal side of her ascent to power as the nation's first female speaker.
"My message is: 'Be ready,' " the 1962 graduate of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., told the students and their families and friends gathered on Toyon Meadow in the heart of the 139-year-old campus. "It may be a path that isn't planned for you."
The conferring of an honorary doctor of laws degree on the San Francisco representative coincided with the 20th anniversary of a 16-day student strike that caused Mills' board of trustees to reverse an earlier vote to admit men to the college's undergraduate program.
The original decision - made because of concerns over the institution's long-term finances - prompted a boycott of classes by nearly 40 percent of the student body. In the two decades since, the number of undergraduates has grown from 777 to 926, while Mills' endowment has increased to $176 million from $71 million. The graduate programs, which have always included men as well as women, have more than doubled in size to 584 students.
Pelosi praised the 1990 protesters as "suffragettes ... they fought, they won, they made a difference."
The speaker was introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, who worked up the graduates to hooting applause as she lauded Pelosi as "a fierce woman warrior, fierce, and I mean fierce!" But Pelosi played down fierceness for family, emphasizing "my path was not a planned one," explaining that she gave birth to five....
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“Be ready to man the barricades against the Tea Party neo-Nazi reactionary terrorists, comrades!”
Huh?
I hope that any path people take are one that is planned BY them, not FOR them.
Pelosi sounds like it's a bad thing.
The thicker the wheat, the easier it’s mowed.
Be ready.
Those artists and musicians aren’t going to support themselves you know.
“Be ready” to lose most of the income you expected to generate from this degree to federal, state and local taxes subsidizing the irresponsible of yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.
What’s with all of pelousy’s sexist comments? What a total fail of a person she is. TOTAL.
Half of every graduating class, graduates at the bottom.
They go into government and politics.
Our speaker is not smart enough to care and we have given stupid people too much power.
Time to take it back.
Too bad she couldn’t wish them happiness and success.
More calls for the formation of the mindless “We”.
Yeah, you better be ready. With us libs in charge, that path really isn’t all that clear....
BE READY...to be unemployed for another 2 years.
I would be so embarrased of having the world’s stupidiest woman speaking at my commencement.
Marxists do so like to plan everyone's paths for them ("shining paths" in fact) do they not?
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Be ready? Yeah kids, grab your ankles and hold on because Aunt Nancy and Uncles Barry and Harry are busy spending your future away and giving up any hope you have for a safe, secure and prosperous future.
You left out racists.
Be ready and have the telephone number for Planned Parenthood available just in case you are punished with a baby
Geez - I learned “be Prepared” years ago, and I didn’t have to attend four years of college to get to the point that some half-wit peddled it to me like the greatest revelation since the Ten Commandments.....
Mills College, identifiable with Lesbianism.
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