Posted on 05/18/2016 7:45:48 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
President is angry, bitter, petty — while Supreme Court justice is gracious, wise, inspiring
‘Tis the season for commencement ceremonies and the left’s last chance at indoctrinating the young impressionable minds of the newly graduated — as if they didn’t have enough time in four years of courses taught by uber-liberal professors.
Over the weekend, Rutgers University heard from President Obama, who grew up in international privilege and comfort and went to private school in Hawaii before dashing off to Harvard.
Meanwhile, Hillsdale College heard from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was born in a shanty in Jim Crow Georgia — the “proximate descendant of slaves,” as Hillsdale President Larry Arnn introduced him, describing Thomas as “the greatest public servant I know.”
As you might imagine, they gave two very different speeches.
Thomas encouraged the graduates to remain steadfast in their values and principles while focusing on the responsibilities and duties of citizens.
“Today, of course, there is much more focus on our rights as citizens and what we are owed,” Justice Thomas said. “At the risk of understating what is necessary to preserve liberty and our form of government, I think more and more that it depends on good citizens, [not] discarding their daily duties and their daily obligations.”
He also warned against the politically correct culture that our world has adopted, and imparted some sage advice to the graduates. "Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness," Thomas said.
It was a refreshing message in a world that has become rampant with politically correct crusades and entitlement.
He wasn't angry or exclusionary. He urged the young people to open their minds to those who are different from them. "Reach out to that shy person who is not so popular," he said. "Stand up for others who are being treated unfairly in small things and large. Listen to a friend who is having a difficult time ... Treat others as you would want to be treated if you were in their shoes."
But Obama painted a different picture for the graduates at Rutgers. Instead of offering advice for the recent graduates, he focused his speech on the GOP's presumptive nominee — without specifically naming him.
"Class of 2016, let me be as clear as I can be: In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue," Obama said. "Facts, evidence, reason, logic, an understanding of science — these are good things. These are qualities you want in people making policy … That might seem obvious … We have traditionally valued those things, but if you're listening to today's political debate, you might wonder where this strain of anti-intellectualism came from."
Then, true to Obama's egotistical fashion, he praised himself for his work in office. "Twenty million more Americans now know the financial security of health insurance. We're less dependent on foreign oil. We've doubled the production of clean energy. We've cut the high school dropout rate. We've cut the deficit by two-thirds. Marriage equality is the law of the land."
"The Obama speech was a nasty, sniping, petty tirade," Wendy Long, the Republican and Conservative Party nominee for the United States Senate in New York, told LifeZette. "Ironically, it contained no discernible learning, reason or substance, yet Obama criticized his political opponents as 'anti-intellectual.'"
Obama played the cool hipster, Long noted, tossing the graduates such nuggets as: "When you hear someone longing for the old days, take it with a grain of salt," and, "It's not cool not to know what you're talking about."
Yet Thomas, by contrast, "gave the graduates a gift of life's most important lessons in how to be a good citizen and how to form the fabric of a civil and prosperous nation," said Long. "He told about his days of backbreaking work on his grandfather's farm, where he learned 'if you don't work, you don't eat.' He asked the students what they would think of redistributing the grades of the hardworking, conscientious students to those who partied all the time and performed poorly in school would be a good way to make them 'equal.'"
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REALLY? Funny how the deficit goes down while our debt skyrockets. The media is America's worst enemy. They allow this to pass.
This ‘president’ cum community organizer has always been angry, bitter, petty. Obama belittles his country and the citizens; he is in many ways, a bully.
He is a black racist Islamist. Of course he is negative!
Amazing, the difference in the condition of their hearts.
Justice Thomas has realized the American Dream. Obama is America’s worst nightmare.
That was my immediate reaction.
What a contrast in charcter!
Whenever I hear or see the name 0bama, I think of what George Wallace would be like if he were half black.
Nasty x10.
During the Clarence Thomas’ speech, he said words to the effect of: “I am unapologetically Catholic, unapologetically patriotic, and unapologetically a constitutionalist.”
Yeah. That says it all.
Bravo.
It’s is the difference between a man who is educated as apposed to a man who is not.
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