Should have used this quote.
Posted on 06/04/2018 10:54:58 AM PDT by SMGFan
. As valedictorian of his high school class, Ben Bowling thought a lot about what he would say in his speech at graduation. The high school senior from Bell County, Kentucky, stepped up to the podium and offered some words of wisdom for his classmates and their families.
"This is the part of my speech where I share some inspirational quotes I found on Google," Bowling said. "'Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.' - Donald J. Trump."
The crowd erupted with applause. Then Bowling interrupted their cheers.
"Just kidding," Bowling said. "That was Barack Obama."
The 18-year-old said after he revealed it was not Mr. Trump who said the quote, but actually Mr. Obama, the crowd quickly went silent.
Bowling, who graduated on Saturday morning, said he "didn't mean anything bad by it" and thought the moment was lighthearted and funny, the Louisville Courier Journal reports. "I just thought it was a really good quote," Bowling said.
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My takeaway from this is that a heck of a lot of 18-year-olds really like President Trump.
Then a few girls beat him up.
And that this kid is a budding jerk
Who cares who blathered that mundane ho-hum statement? It’s just a sound bite regardless of who said it.
This kid thought he was being clever? This is what passes for a valedictorian in Kentucky?
I agree. Good news.
Next quote.... “use of chemical weapons is a red line!”
Ben Bowling? I haven’t been bowling for years.
if he wants to get into medical school, he'd better do better than that
And that this kid is a budding jerk.
Probably a jerking bud.
Let’s be honest. Obama said some great stuff, just not much great stuff. I have to confess that that one wasn’t that great, though, even if Reagan had said it (or Trump).
But yeah. The takeaway is that there are a lot of trump supporters there, which is encouraging.
... and if this budding little SJW weenie were to try the same thing on practically any college campus he’d be roundly booed. His point is what?
Obama’s writers were masters at high-sounding quotes that meant nothing in particular. You could fill a library with them, with nary a pamphlet worth of meaning across the whole lot.
Should have used this quote.
AND that this kid wanted to make them look/feel foolish.
Bowlings should lose his honor of being named valedictorian.
Kid doesn’t know Devil can quote Scripture to his own ends? Obama can SAY nice things, but the doing may be destructive.
“As Donald Trump said, ‘There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.’”
JK! It was Obama who said that! Or was it Chaunce the gardener?
And CBS (See, BS) News actually thought this was worthy of national coverage?
Gosh, the media is desperate.
That’s how he’ll manage...I wouldn’t hire him.
Then he got shoved into a locker because it's still high school.
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