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Biden to grads: Don't get cynical
cnn ^ | 6/4/12 | CNN's Ashley Killough

Posted on 06/04/2012 6:43:49 PM PDT by Nachum

(CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden encouraged high school graduates to dream big and avoid cynicism, recounting in a commencement speech Monday his memory of the president's inauguration day as an example of progress.

Speaking to graduates of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida - a key swing state this November - Biden threaded his speech with standard graduation language and strongly urged students not to settle for the status quo.

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"Don't give in to the cynicism, the pettiness and the negativity that so often pervades our public discourse. Believe in yourself, and believe in the promise of this country," he said, with Marlins Park in Miami as the backdrop for the ceremony.

The vice president told the story of waiting for President Barack Obama to pick him up in Delaware on the way to the presidential inauguration in January 2009.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; cynical; grads
Cue the "Logical" song

D'oh!

1 posted on 06/04/2012 6:43:58 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum
"..avoid cynicism.."

My HS teachers advised same in the 60's.

I still think they were wrong.

2 posted on 06/04/2012 6:47:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

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“The Logical Song” (Supertramp)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k3JVfxluFU


3 posted on 06/04/2012 6:50:08 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

I tire of liberals’ sickening entitlement plea ever since they changed the phrase ‘American Dream’ to the ‘American Promise’ sometime around 2008.


4 posted on 06/04/2012 6:57:34 PM PDT by dk88 (Occupy=Liberalism: No solutions, no responsibility and demanding free stuff from someone else)
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To: Nachum
"Don't give in to the cynicism, the pettiness and the negativity that so often pervades our public discourse.

Has there been a more cynical, petty, blame-weilding and negative occupant of the WH than Mister Barack Obama? Or a more willing fellow monger of negativity and blames than Mister Biden?

(I would answer, but you might think me a cynic.)

.

5 posted on 06/04/2012 7:27:17 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Nachum

I was thinking Olivia Neutron-Bomb’s “Cynical”

Don’t get cynical, cynical
Don’tcha get cynical
Don’t you dare get cynical!
Just believe the crap I say
[Such crap you say!]
Just believe it anyway...


6 posted on 06/04/2012 7:27:31 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Nachum
The Masters of Cynicism. They have taught us well by their actions. We NEED to be cynical of these ass-clowns.

7 posted on 06/04/2012 7:40:17 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Nachum

Boy, did they draw the short straw. They couldn’t find anybody other than Slow Joe? Obviously a high school of little consequence.


8 posted on 06/04/2012 8:15:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Nachum

Meanwhile it turns out that half the contestants in last night’s Miss USA pageant when asked conld not identify the vice-president of the United States - apparently people hang on every word Big Joe has to say....


9 posted on 06/04/2012 8:58:42 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: RetiredTexasVet
Not an encouraging development for Joe, this being an election year and all, to be relegated to high school graduation speeches. Must be exciting for the kids though?

Parents must be appalled. Especially the dads. “I got to wait 5 hours in the Florida sun to go through a strip search for my kid's ceremony because Biden is here? Can I vote immediately afterward?”

10 posted on 06/04/2012 9:36:58 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Nachum

Biden is proof that even idiots can make it in the US, at least they could before his master took control.


11 posted on 06/04/2012 9:43:42 PM PDT by pallis
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