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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D'oh!
My HS teachers advised same in the 60's.
I still think they were wrong.
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I tire of liberals’ sickening entitlement plea ever since they changed the phrase ‘American Dream’ to the ‘American Promise’ sometime around 2008.
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.)
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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...
Boy, did they draw the short straw. They couldn’t find anybody other than Slow Joe? Obviously a high school of little consequence.
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....
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?”
Biden is proof that even idiots can make it in the US, at least they could before his master took control.
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