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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (30777)	5/23/2010 6:50:48 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Graduation Lunacy Posted 05/21/2010 07:05 PM ET Education: Universities are sending young achievers out into the world with the words of rabid leftists ringing in their heads. It's a dismal picture, given the future the liberals running Washington have created. Some day, a Voltaire will emerge to satirize the Panglossian roster of speakers peppering U.S. university graduations in the era of the Tea Parties and multitrillion-dollar government debt, which ironically will end up dumped on the young people graduating from our schools of higher learning. This year's speakers are big on extolling current orthodoxies instead of questioning them. Inadvertently they reveal a lot about the state of universities, most of which are knee-deep in state funding, hostile to controlling costs and hothouses of political correctness. This may be why many universities have chosen commencement speakers so irrelevant to reality. Last week, Young America's Foundation released its 17th annual commencement speaker survey and found university officials handing Obama administration officials speaking duties nine times this year, compared with a mere 14 times in the full eight years of the Bush administration. "This year's research found that a myriad of speakers were not only White House officials but also liberal ideologues, newsmakers, authors and entrenched Washington insiders, while conservative best-selling authors, business leaders and free-market Nobel laureates were once again absent from the list," the group noted. Some of the top draws included idiot Odumbama, who at the University of Michigan chastised those who question his big-government programs as extremists, and then warned of violence. Energy Secretary Steven Chu was just as out of it at Washington University, using his soapbox to praise 1960s radicals and then to warn about global warming, a junk-science idea about to go the way of the dodo. There was also idiotMichelle Odumbama, who had demanded a shakedown of 100,000 community service hours from George Washington University students before she'd come to speak, as if students ought to be ladling soup instead of studying. Obama's media supporters featured too — with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow playing the old-time favorite of Blaming Bush at Smith College. Maddow ranted about supposed corruption in the Bush administration while ignoring what's going on today. It underlines that universities are no longer places to question authority, but cheerleaders for the establishment. It's a sad sight, given that it is graduates who will in the end be forced to foot the bill for these big-government excesses and warped values.