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honest are offered about the commencement speech at bard argued over
city are columbia sister school
so our jerry address p
each apparently you know of course the students are excited said see the
president speaking at the commencement speech you are never spoke at my
commencement speech
university's president
looking into
but you know that very exciting to have the president of the united states speak
to you
and basically encourage you to work hard for the future
i think that it's great but the students
houdini issue with the fact that
the speech touched on
broad themes but didn't really focus on specific issues that
concern then celts the specific things the students want to hear him talk about
or student loan debt and also uh... women's reproductive rights
and of course a lot of didn't go into much detail
on those issues now that doesn't surprise me at all that he didn't go
into detail on those issues um... he didn't want it to seem like it was some
sort of campaign speech he just kinda wanted to give words of encouragement to
the students but sonya what are your thoughts on the criticism do you think
that i'd the criticism is justifiable do you think that uh... houston should feel
upset with the fact that obama didn't go into detail i think that there's a
pretty good chance that this is just
the author looking
for controversy in vietnam i mean to be mentioning here in
uh... his actual speech that there's a lot of what the policy of giving his
lines like you know yes the candidate we've got video of his speech which will
get to
um... and so vendor the author goes allen finds a couple people that a
problem with it and the problems are even all that great if they don't use of
the general
it's commencement speeches that you know his campaign speeches i his
convention speech how specific should get
what would they have expected if it had been
single-payer simply the commencement speech in this particular type of thing
so i i don't think that
it's probably is that it's being made out to be in this article
right also at if you like
your graduation day is supposed to be a happy day where you're supposed to
celebrate your chief mention your accomplishments
however i don't blame the students the few that were put in this article
for being a little disappointed that he didn't address student loan debt because
it's such a huge problem in this country right now
and politicians attempt to kind of a drastic and uh... you know proposed
policy that would
would be someone of the solution to the issue but the reality is this hasn't
been dealt with
uh... efficiently or even significantly so i have
personally would love to hear about bob lang use
is that opportunity as a way of proposing ways up
candolim this decade shield
but of course he probably doesn't have any really good ideas at the moment so
he didn't say anything and all he didn't go into detail or if he does have good
ideas he's not prepared to share it with people and the the bills are working
their way through congress right now i mean they are being debated i don't know
how much more
you know one speech from obama
could influence i do i go to the video then come back in time but we have let's
let's let's listen to obama speaking at the commencement speech
altogether by
telling a hard time
and they columbia college graduate
just as you were starting out
finding their way around the state
economic crisis rock that would claim more than
five million jobs
for the end of your freshman year
of course is young women there
going to grapple with some unique gems
whether you'll be able to learn equal pay for equal work
whether you'll be able to ballots for the man's your job
you'll be able to
fully control decisions about your uncle
fiat women doing about that
i'm glad you brought it up that i have any elaborate
scooping should be women's without that's kind of like saying
and there's a problem with that women are getting paid equally to men he's
gotten that mit romney
and overall he's not a nice understand
listen i'm playing devil's advocate i hiked formally agreed that this is a
commencement speech
on bombing should be using it as a campaign speech
and she she shouldn't go into great detail into his policy ideas eccentric
however
i can understand the students being frustrated because they're real issues
that affect them
and we have a specialist on the right there were really issues that affect
them reproductive health do you think about him and he brought up those issues
but he didn't go into detail is just kinda said okay these are your concerns
either sending you have these concerns let's move on
so i didn't understand what you would have wanted him to say
when you say greater detail do you mean him solving the problem at the podium
run outside and not not solving the problem but as president what he would
do to address those issues i think that's what the students were expecting
and and he didn't go into that and i understand why he didn't go into that
i'm just saying that i can definitely sympathize with those female students i
will say we one less thing for me watching the the video the extended
video of his speech
uh... look i started off
as a huge obama supporter i remember his convention speech back in two thousand
three years ago parker exactly was but i was incredibly impressed by have always
been impressed by speaking out grown a little bit
uh... disillusioned with them over the the years especially my time here since
the precise and so much day today
uh... but even just listening to the highlights that speech like this just
something about the way he speaks that i think is inspiring the stupid little
jokes the throws in developing from colombia's boost barnard like yeah
i think that with a few
did speeches distance i think he will actually get them back to talk about his
article about how he needs that supported him
i think that will build again and i totally agree with you all bob's very
eloquent uh... it's such a huge contrast from
bush who was the actor who was about and i think most eloquent person on the
planet
on cell ac
i would have loved to have him speak etc at my graduation
i probably wouldn't have a single criticism because i'd be so stoked
excited about it so
and i love the fact that he took the time to do