I just Rec it in the Vids.. now we need to this OP to the Greatest!

Here's a view from his audience of Gradutates at Ohio State..



http://theobamadiary.com/

Those who want to continue to be cynical and complain, WILL continue to do nothing but that.

Misery is easy, the tool of the maliciously lazy. We WILL take the negative energy they feed on and WILL create something beautiful.

That AP clip was great with the best part, but it cut him off in the middle of a sentence. But their clips are always short, it's not an intentional editing out like Fox.

Curious what else was said. I asked in the other thread, does TOD have the full address?

full address to this post. lol sorry. No, Chips said she'd be back later with more pics and no doubt the PBO's Full Address!

I actually had been waiting for it and was going to post but glad you got the ball rolling so to speak.

And Happy Cinco De Mayo to you in sunny Hawaii!

We're excited, it may get up to a sunny 84 degrees here.

Sunshine! My sis in New York was loving the 80 degree weather the other day while I was sweating in our 80 degree high humidity climate. I like it though because it's like a walking sauna and it's good for you!

helps my skin.

but, my parents went back to Colorado because or the heat and humidity. Also lived in Gainseville, Florida in the '70s. That's what I like about the South.. the Swampy weather!

I've only ever lived in Massachusetts. Born and raised.

I guess I don't get out much. Oh wait, three months in college, during summerbreak! I lived in Providence RI, with a couple of girlfriends. Pretty rough area. It was fun until one night a car tried blocking ours into a corner at a supermarket....scary. We got around them and drove to Mass for the night!

I really came to post this, Ohio/Obama!
Great picture!



http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/05/ohio-state/

Strong.

That does sound scary when you were in College. Did you go to Brown?

Thanks she for that pic of President Obama.. who also recieved an honorary doctorate..

Ohio State 2013.

They are our future.



BOG

still doesn't have it but, will let you know when they do.

Thanks for the fabulous video, freshwest! I will go to the link and Rec hue's OP too

Reject Cynical Voices!

Well said Mr President~

missed, she!

BOG

Is so sweet, Cha!

Appropriate for today, don't you think~

John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" — a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
SNIP
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.


http://www.ushistory.org/documents/ask-not.htm

thank you!

It kind of reminds me of the pictures of the Inauguration!
Sweet!

I think I should have said "Panoramic" view, though

I will watch tomorrow. I can't wait!

BOG

she

I listened while reading the text.

It's a recurring theme in President Obama's speeches as of late, and something that has been neglected by political leaders for far too long.

If these OH graduates are like the interns and new folks going to work in my office, we're in good hands. The young people entering the workforce (I feel so old saying that) inspire me with their creativity, expressiveness and sense of social responsibility. I've been out of college for about 20 years now, and am somewhat envious that I'm not part of the discussions taking place in classrooms about civil rights and how our country is transforming into something new and exciting.

And someone who has a lot to do with that is our President. I think most college graduates are smart enough to see through the cynicism and view government as something that belongs to all of us. President Obama mobilized students like no other president before him, and he stood by his commitment to change the structure of student loans and make college more accessible. They will not forget that.