THE NEAL BOORTZ COMMENCEMENT SPEECH!! (A liberal's nightmare!)

Neal Boortz web site ^ | 5/24/03 | Neal Boortz

[Elkiejg]

One of these days, this speech will be heard on a university campus - hopefully!

[Kerberos]

"Conservatives and Libertarians think -- and, setting aside the theocracy crowd, their identity is centered on the individual."

I really love Neal's writing.

[StriperSniper]

Bump for later.

[firewalk]

Thanks for posting this
bttt

[mtbrandon49]

Bump for Later!

[battlegearboat]

Oh crud, I was hoping it was for real.

[dakine]

bump...

[DB]

Yes, that would be something!

Great speech.

[PGalt]

Outstanding. Thanks for post.

[G.Mason]

One of these days.

Good read. Thanks.

[Hatteras]

BTTT...

[Mochamadness]

Bump for later

[aardvark1]

Can you imagine actually hearing this at a commencement? The truth will set you free...I think someone important said that.

[fporretto]

From your lips to God's -- and our graduates' -- ear, Neal.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com

[hardhead]

This is great! Oh how I wish there was a conservative with the cajones to deliver this for real - to get up at the podium and then just thrown his speech up into the air and depart from the prepared text. Could you just see the faculty taking their finger and inserting it into their collar as the sweat poured down their forehead and neck! This wouldn't be a bad thing to forward by mail to all the graduates we know, HS or college. It might get some of the little snots to think before they leap.

[HatSteel]

I had this forwarded to me on email yesterday. It was great then. It's just as good today. Thanks

[chuknospam]

bump for later read

[Gritty]

In real life, Neal would get about halfway through the first paragraph before he would find himself hanging from the nearest tree.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I do love Neal Boortz! He tells it like it is... doesn't he!

My youngest just graduated from High School last Friday night. During the ceremony I reflected on one of Neal's best points of his speech I had listened to just that morning on the radio.....
the importance of the "INDIVIDUAL": At my middle son's commencement at University of Georgia several years ago, we sat through numerous lengthy pompas speeches and personal introduction of each of the faculty members on the stage. Then at the end, rather than have the graduates come forth and be named to receive their hard earned diplomas, they merely called the name of their seating section designated by type of degree, had that section stand as a group and pronounced them "graduated".

Contrast this to the ceremony at younger son's High School Friday night.... they had the faculty march onto the football field and line the pathway, then the honored graduates walked that pathway as their proud teachers looked on and "saluted" them with their smiles and nods and even tears I am told. They dispensed with he pompass speeches, only having a very short 3 minute comment from a student elected by the Senior class to address them, and a 3 minute comment from the Valdictorian. This then allowed them the time to have EACH graduate walk across the stage, individually as his name was called and family and friends applauded. None of that, "hold your applause till all have been called" rot.... each kid was honored individually.

Neal is, generally speaking, right about the horrible state that our public schools are in, but he is wrong on one account... there still are schools that hold to some standards and there are still some teachers out there who hold to conservative ideals. I have to admitt that Milton High School showed this and and much to Dr. Tesh's credit (the principal), Friday night it was the INDIVIDUAL WHO COUNTED!

[JimRed]

This should be required reading for every graduate in the USA...no, make that the world!

Come to think of it, graduate or not, anyone who can read it!