- At my sister's graduation Judy Woodruff, of CNN and PBS, talked on a myriad of topics ranging from the economy to women in the workplace. One topic she touched on was how she felt that although many pundits consider young people entitled, she disagreed. Here's the deal, we are entitled but I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. Young people today not only expect to have information, news, and media at their fingertips, they demand it. A sense of entitlement has lead to Google, YouTube, and Wolfram Alpha being created. The founders of those companies wanted information and videos faster and spawned some of the most successful modern day companies.
- Michelle Obama spoke at California Merced, yeah I never heard of it either. I just heard a few highlights but the main idea of her speech was for young people to give back and volunteer. Here's the deal Michelle, since only about 20% of us graduating seniors have jobs lined up, why don't those with money and jobs pitch in while we find some work. We have spent the last 16+ years of our life learning and training for a potential job and you want us help others get jobs? GTFO.
- Now on to the big guy, President Obama. Overall I thought the speech was pretty good. He talked about himself a little too much and even plugged his own book, very weak, but overall the speech was well delivered and had a good theme. I did especially like and dislike the part in which he asked that each side of the abortion debate refrain from depicting the other side as caricatures and that the issue is equally important to both sides. I agree that each side has demonized and caricatured the other as either Evangelical loonies or socialist baby hating liberals. However, I have to disagree about the importance of the issue to each side.
If the pro life side loses, 2 million abortions are performed a year, a pretty steep loss. If the pro choice side loses, women lose the right to abort their "parasites." For arguments sake I will agree with the pro choice side and say that having an abortion is a right. I would then ask them, would you be willing to give up a right so that someone else may live? I'd love to hear their answer.
Anyways, between the protests, media coverage, and abortion debate the event as a whole was in my opinion a total and complete failure. Graduations are supposed to be about the graduates and not abortion, protests, and media coverage. Lost in the whole event was that some 3,000 students were there to receive degrees for their hard work and dedication. President Obama and the issue of abortion trumped why he was there in the first place.
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