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Obama delivers his best smackdown ever, and Obama haters are livid.

HIS facts

HIS evidence

HIS science

ALL MADE UP

Like ObamaCare and Iran Deal, all lies
 
"Which brings me to my third point: Facts, evidence, reason, logic, an understanding of science—these are good things. (Applause.) These are qualities you want in people making policy. These are qualities you want to continue to cultivate in yourselves as citizens. (Applause.) That might seem obvious. (Laughter.) That's why we honor Bill Moyers or Dr. Burnell.

We traditionally have valued those things. But if you were listening to today’s political debate, you might wonder where this strain of anti-intellectualism came from. (Applause.) So, Class of 2016, let me be as clear as I can be. In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. (Applause.) It's not cool to not know what you're talking about. (Applause.) That's not keeping it real, or telling it like it is. (Laughter.) That's not challenging political correctness. That's just not knowing what you're talking about. (Applause.) And yet, we've become confused about this.

Look, our nation’s Founders—Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson—they were born of the Enlightenment. They sought to escape superstition, and sectarianism, and tribalism, and no-nothingness. (Applause.) They believed in rational thought and experimentation, and the capacity of informed citizens to master our own fates. That is embedded in our constitutional design. That spirit informed our inventors and our explorers, the Edisons and the Wright Brothers, and the George Washington Carvers and the Grace Hoppers, and the Norman Borlaugs and the Steve Jobses. That's what built this country.

And today, in every phone in one of your pockets—(laughter)—we have access to more information than at any time in human history, at a touch of a button. But, ironically, the flood of information hasn’t made us more discerning of the truth. In some ways, it’s just made us more confident in our ignorance. (Applause.) We assume whatever is on the web must be true. We search for sites that just reinforce our own predispositions. Opinions masquerade as facts. The wildest conspiracy theories are taken for gospel.

Now, understand, I am sure you’ve learned during your years of college—and if not, you will learn soon—that there are a whole lot of folks who are book smart and have no common sense. (Applause.) That's the truth. You’ll meet them if you haven't already. (Laughter.) So the fact that they’ve got a fancy degree—you got to talk to them to see whether they know what they’re talking about. (Laughter.) Qualities like kindness and compassion, honesty, hard work—they often matter more than technical skills or know-how. (Applause.)

But when our leaders express a disdain for facts, when they’re not held accountable for repeating falsehoods and just making stuff up, while actual experts are dismissed as elitists, then we’ve got a problem. (Applause.)

You know, it's interesting that if we get sick, we actually want to make sure the doctors have gone to medical school, they know what they’re talking about. (Applause.) If we get on a plane, we say we really want a pilot to be able to pilot the plane. (Laughter.) And yet, in our public lives, we certainly think, “I don't want somebody who’s done it before.” (Laughter and applause.) The rejection of facts, the rejection of reason and science—that is the path to decline. It calls to mind the words of Carl Sagan, who graduated high school here in New Jersey—(applause)—he said: “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depths of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

The debate around climate change is a perfect example of this. Now, I recognize it doesn’t feel like the planet is warmer right now. (Laughter.) I understand. There was hail when I landed in Newark. (Laughter.) (The wind starts blowing hard.) (Laughter.) But think about the climate change issue. Every day, there are officials in high office with responsibilities who mock the overwhelming consensus of the world’s scientists that human activities and the release of carbon dioxide and methane and other substances are altering our climate in profound and dangerous ways.

A while back, you may have seen a United States senator trotted out a snowball during a floor speech in the middle of winter as “proof” that the world was not warming. (Laughter.) I mean, listen, climate change is not something subject to political spin. There is evidence. There are facts. We can see it happening right now. (Applause.) If we don’t act, if we don't follow through on the progress we made in Paris, the progress we've been making here at home, your generation will feel the brunt of this catastrophe.

So it’s up to you to insist upon and shape an informed debate. Imagine if Benjamin Franklin had seen that senator with the snowball, what he would think. Imagine if your 5th grade science teacher had seen that. (Laughter.) He’d get a D. (Laughter.) And he’s a senator! (Laughter.)"

Source:

http://www.newsweek.com/obama-full-transcript-rutgers-university-commencement-speech-460325
 
I'm sorry he sounded like an idiot. He can't even figure out how to keep the graduation stole over his shoulder.
 
he sounded like an ANGRY COLORED FELLER

I expected him to knife some white dude
 
That was a great speech.

Small wonder that Miles and 4est_4est_Trump hate President Obama with every fiber of their being.
Yes, Que, you hate him too, but only because your off-board bros do.
 
Yea you should've heard the whining of the people who were there and were Trump supporters. They were a bit peeved.

Cause you cant live here and not know someone from that college.
 
RobDownSouth said:
That was a great speech.

Small wonder that Miles and 4est_4est_Trump hate President Obama with every fiber of their being.
Yes, Que, you hate him too, but only because your off-board bros do.
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All of his speeches are great. Except for the ones where he shows up as a black man. :rolleyes:
 
lovetoread said:
Yea you should've heard the whining of the people who were there and were Trump supporters. They were a bit peeved.

Cause you cant live here and not know someone from that college.
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Most of the time Trump supporters travel in packs, like hyenas. Individually, they are too easy to pick off. Not unlike Wingnut Nation here on the GB.
 
I think Rory has a little Obama juice running down his chin, way too excited about this.
 
RobDownSouth said:
That was a great speech.

Small wonder that Miles and 4est_4est_Trump hate President Obama with every fiber of their being.
Yes, Que, you hate him too, but only because your off-board bros do.
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I'm really going to miss that attribute. Especially after stumbling fumbling George with the small vocab. Obama has given more succinct and inspiring speeches than just about most presidents I have heard. BB couldn't read the whole speech any way, it would take him two weeks.
 
M. Jordan said:
I'm really going to miss that attribute. Especially after stumbling fumbling George with the small vocab. Obama has given more succinct and inspiring speeches than just about most presidents I have heard. BB couldn't read the whole speech any way, it would take him two weeks.
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He apparently processes an Obama speech the way the kids in the old Peanuts sketches process grownup-speak, as a series of random trombone sounds.
 
If only Obama's actions as POTUS were 1/2 as decent as his rhetoric.......
 
Meh, he delivered pretty solidly given that he was dealt the second-nuttiest opposition in American history. (The nuttiest being Lincoln; leastways Obama didn't have to face an actual civil war, just its proxy version in terms of Congressional nuttiness.)
 
lovecraft68 said:
homophobic butthurt
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OldJourno said:
What did you see as the key truth of the speech, the part that angered the Right the most.
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The 'trying to spin the educated as elitists' portion cut pretty good, because it got to the core of someone like Trump's attempts to market to a demographic. In effect: you uneducated people are the only ones with integrity. "I love the poorly-educated". Trump, 2/2016

Jeb suggested the same thing before he got his ass handed to him.
 
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