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Obama tells grads: Successful people just got lucky
wnd.com ^ | 5/11/2016 | Cheryl Chumley

Posted on 05/11/2016 8:26:39 AM PDT by rktman

President Obama addresses graduates at Howard University

“Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness,” President Barack Obama told graduates and their families at Howard University’s 2016 commencement ceremony.

Obama told the graduating class that success is based more on luck, not hard work, and those who achieve great things do so because the fates have shined brightly upon them.

Successful people are “just lucky,” Obama said, Breitbart reported. “It wasn’t nothing you did.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016commencements; assclown; howardu; lucky
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"“It wasn’t nothing you did.”" So, by using a double negative, I take it to mean that successful people DID do something to achieve their success. Or is he trying to bring his speech pattern down to a level where the Howard grads will understand what he's trying to say. I dun know. P.S. Sorry for the pic. Weight saving ploy? Loss of appetite?
1 posted on 05/11/2016 8:26:39 AM PDT by rktman
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So sayeth the low IQ loser who concealed proof of his idiocy and race carded himself to the presidency.

Dorkbama the Muslim is a dick.


2 posted on 05/11/2016 8:28:32 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rktman

That’s at the core of EVERYTHING the Democrat Party believes.

You didn’t build that!


3 posted on 05/11/2016 8:28:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Well,Obama must be the luckiest SOB on the planet then.


4 posted on 05/11/2016 8:29:02 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: rktman

Speaking proper English is a white thing.


5 posted on 05/11/2016 8:29:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Successful people are “just lucky,” Obama said, Breitbart reported. “It wasn’t nothing you did.”


Sometimes liberals tell us how brilliant and intelligent Obama is. He’s so bright, etc. etc. But he said “it wasn’t nothing you did”. This brilliant intelligent man said “it wasn’t nothing you did”; he intentionally used bad grammar in his speech???? Really????? why??? Does that somehow give him street cred in speaking to graduates of an historically black university????


6 posted on 05/11/2016 8:31:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Da Coyote

One of the biggest failing of socialists is their inability to recognize the fact that there are greater and lesser persons than themselves.Everyting has to be see as a level playing field.


7 posted on 05/11/2016 8:31:51 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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Baraq thinks his experience of being pushed up the ladder while doing nothing for himself is somehow typical. When in fact, his is a very strange - and suspicious -story.


8 posted on 05/11/2016 8:31:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Ya that got me too. He said “it wasn’t nothing you did”; he intentionally used improper grammar, which seems very strange in a prepared speech.


9 posted on 05/11/2016 8:32:04 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Why didn’t he just tell those graduates how utterly stupid it was for them to waste all that time going to college when it is only “luck” that gets them anywhere???


10 posted on 05/11/2016 8:32:49 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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He was pandering to the AA crowd.


11 posted on 05/11/2016 8:32:50 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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He's such a tool and a national embarrassment. He meant it in the worst possible way. He makes Carter look somewhat American.

12 posted on 05/11/2016 8:32:57 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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Speaking proper English is a white thing.

Proper English is not PC.

13 posted on 05/11/2016 8:33:11 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!

TOO BAD MANY ARE DECEIVED BY LIES. OR TIME. OR INDIFFERENCE!

GOD BLESS America!


14 posted on 05/11/2016 8:34:13 AM PDT by midlander
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Successful people just got lucky

Well, based on his own experience - and his wife's, and everyone else that he's coattailed along, that's 100% correct.

But for the 99.9% of the population, not so much.

15 posted on 05/11/2016 8:34:29 AM PDT by wbill
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“It wasn’t nothing you did.”

Huh. The Won speaks Ebonics. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised.


16 posted on 05/11/2016 8:34:35 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: hadaclueonce

potus takes a veiled shot at white privilege. Yawn... let’s talk about mulatto privilege, dumbass!


17 posted on 05/11/2016 8:35:40 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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Funny. I find the harder I work the luckier I get.


18 posted on 05/11/2016 8:36:25 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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Lazy thinking. A weak and passive approach to success that is guaranteed to create more career victims.


19 posted on 05/11/2016 8:37:23 AM PDT by lee martell
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20 posted on 05/11/2016 8:38:56 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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