Posted on 06/17/2016 10:19:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: Did you hear what Obama said? This happened when I was away. When this happened, when I heard about this, I almost got on the plane and flew 12 hours back here. I could have done it on the phone but I don't trust it.
Obama in his commencement speech at Howard University, do you remember what he said? Here's what he said to the class of 2016 at Howard University: "Yes, you've worked hard, but you've also been lucky," and that's a pet peeve of mine. "People have been successful and don't realize they've been lucky, that God may have blessed them. It wasn't nothing you did!" Quote/unquote, Barack Obama, right out of the Elizabeth Warren playbook. "Hey, you didn't build that!" which Obama also has said.
Can you imagine telling college graduates, "You've worked hard, but you've been lucky, and so's every other successful person out there. They've been lucky, and they don't realize it. Wasn't [any]thing you did." And that... "Nothing." Nothing. And that is how they lay the case for Big Government. To redistribute, to make things "fair," to determine equality of outcomes, because it's just luck.
Dick Gephardt, "the successful are winners of life's lottery." I'll tell you, the American left, progressives, Democrats, are the greatest enemies of human greatness that we have to deal with. They really stand in the way of individual, group, whatever, human greatness, by disparaging it, by impugning it, by denying it. It's bad enough you think it, but to run around and send college graduates from a black university out into the world thinking that what they've just accomplished was luck? (sigh) That's the kind of thing, you know, you walk out of a speech, people saying things like that.
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I think you hit the nail square on the head.
Says the guy who has done literally nothing for any of them.
I HATE OBAMA!
Barry Hophead Obama thinks that because he did nothing to deserve the success, power, and money that has been given to him by The Powers That Be, then no one else did either.
Did he really say “It wasn’t nothing you did?”
Columbia? Harvard?
Trying to destroy people’s motivation, to make them equal with those who don’t have any. This is truly evil. He is after the heart and soul of our culture. I pity those who don’t see what he is doing and are taking all of this as gospel truth.
guess that makes the boy about the luckiest mutt on earth then
The achievement of success requires following the basic strategy that leads to success and developing the virtues and character that lead to success. It is one's personal choices that matter, and luck or fate are trivial exceptions.
Columbia? Harvard?
Ha! You should read Moochelle's thesis!
Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.
I have never believed or subscribed to luck, kharna, and all those superstitions. I do believe in hard work, due diligence, application... and have observed many examples that timing might not be “everything” but timing has certainly played into many successful equations.
Obama has been luckiest man in the world so lucky he projects his own inadequacies on others.
I did. I didn’t see bad grammar. This must have been intentional, to draw attention to the speech or to bond with the illiterate.
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