Posted by
Mike Silverman on Sunday, May 17, 2009 4:04:53 PM
Obama's speech at Notre Dame;
If you love Obama, voted for him, etc.. you probably loved his speech.
If you opposed his presidency, policies and actions as President, you probably will find a lot to criticize about it.
Personally, I found it to be too long, I was bored by the end of it, and it meandered in various topics that didn't seem quite relevent to the graduating class, especially when he went on and on about how there is such injustice and inequity and greed in our country talking down the United States again as he so loves to do. It was filled with political campaign rhetoric. And, it would have been a nice gesture if, with all his flowery rhetoric about finding common ground and trying to reach hearts and minds, if he had acknowledged specifically the 50 or so students who through principled disagreement with the University's decision to award him an honorary degree decided to hold a separate ceremony of their own outside. He could have wished them well , and that would have been a decent thing to do. But he didn't. And of course, in his comments about his receiving the honorary degree he made a joke of it, saying how he's only 1 for 2, only getting 1 honorary degree out of two graduation addresses so far as President and said he would have to ask the Notre Dame University President for tips on how to get more.
- Mike Silverman