President Obama Commencement Speech To Arizona State Grads: America Sucks, Capitalism Sucks, Our Military Sucks (Complete Video)

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general.

1. A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
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President Barack Obama gave the Commencement Address at Arizona State Wednesday night.

And he proved yet again his view of America: in our current capitalistic state, we suck. We all must strive to be socialiasts and communists.

You're taught to chase after all the usual brass rings; you try to be on this "who's who" list or that top 100 list; you chase after the big money and you figure out how big your corner office is; you worry about whether you have a fancy enough title or a fancy enough car. That's the message that's sent each and every day, or has been in our culture for far too long -- that through material possessions, through a ruthless competition pursued only on your own behalf -- that's how you will measure success.

What he means is we should all be "equal"; an egalitarian, classless, stateless society -- communism.

It was in pursuit of gaudy short-term profits, and the bonuses that came with them, that so many folks lost their way on Wall Street, engaging in extraordinary risks with other people's money.

Again, more "death" to capitalism rhetoric.

We've become accustomed to the title of "military super-power," forgetting the qualities that got us there -- not just the power of our weapons, but the discipline and valor and the code of conduct of our men and women in uniform.

He truly despises our military and indeed believes our service men and women are all lawless thugs who abuse their power. That's the implication. Obviously, he believes the Left Wing view that the Bush-era Armed Forces tortured, abused and were guilty of "misconduct." This, coming from the Commander-in-Chief is the greatest insult I can imagine.

"Did you study business? (Applause.) Go start a company. (Applause.) Or why not help our struggling non-profits find better, more effective ways to serve folks in need. (Applause.) Did you study nursing? (Applause.) Understaffed clinics and hospitals across this country are desperate for your help. Did you study education? (Applause.) Teach in a high-need school where the kids really need you; give a chance to kids who can't-- who can't get everything they need maybe in their neighborhood, maybe not even in their home we can't afford to give up on -- prepare them to compete for any job anywhere in the world. (Applause.) Did you study engineering? (Applause.) Help us lead a green revolution -- (applause) -- developing new sources of clean energy that will power our economy and preserve our planet."

Non-profit equals ACORN and other "community organizers". Help, help, help the less fortunate. We all agree we should do that, but what Obama doesn't understand is that the government cannot and should not mandate such things. And that is why Obama's view of communism is so frightening! He sugar-coats it with happy rhetoric and a gifted teleprompter!

His war on Capitalism is so obvious, yet millions of Americans continue to be oblivious, blinded by the rock star smiles and the media hype.

"That other stuff -- that other stuff, the trappings of success may be a byproduct of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing. Just ask Bernie Madoff. That's the first problem with the old attitude.

We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get-rich-quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas -- quality products and wise investments. We started taking shortcuts. We started living on credit, instead of building up savings. We saw businesses focus more on rebranding and repackaging than innovating and developing new ideas that improve our lives."

What's he saying here? ALL Wall Street employees are like Bernie Madoff? Is the President Of The United States really saying this? And to a group of young, excited college graduates?

Why do you think they went to school for 4 years? They want to be more successful in life!

Let's also consider that his entire career was spending "other people's money." Community organizer and non-profits? Where do they get their money from!?

Finally, like the pigs in "Animal Farm", some animals are more equal than others. It doesn't seem to bother Barack and Michelle to have expensive tastes for $100 steak, $500 shoes, etc.

It must good to be King; or in this case, Top Pig.

Full Transcript







The Wall Street Journal reports:

TEMPE, Ariz. – President Barack Obama, delivering the first commencement address of his presidency at a university that declined to award him an honorary degree, exhorted graduates Wednesday to forsake short-term gain and instead make a lasting mark on a rebuilding nation.

Speaking in the midst of one of the worst graduate job markets in decades, Mr. Obama took the stage to a blaze of camera flashes as night was falling here. He issued a dour assessment of the economic inheritance facing the graduates, lamenting short cuts taken, flagging ingenuity and the search for quick profits that brought the nation to "a historic recession."

"Graduates, it is now abundantly clear that we need to start doing things a little differently," he said, bedecked in graduate robes. "As a nation, we'll need a fundamental change of perspective and attitude. It is clear that we need to build a new foundation – a stronger foundation – for our economy and our prosperity, rethinking how we grow our economy, how we use our energy, how we educate our children, and care for our sick, and treat our environment."

For Mr. Obama, the controversy that preceded his address could not be avoided. In April, Arizona State University President Michael Crow caused a stir when he declined to offer the president an honorary degree because "his body of work is yet to come."

To make amends, the university announced the expansion of its main financial aid program on Wednesday, renaming it the President Barack Obama Scholars Program.

Mr. Obama called the flap "much ado about nothing" Wednesday evening.

"But I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket. It won't happen again. President Crow and Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS," he said.

For much of the rest of his address, he pivoted off Mr. Crow's slight to speak of his notion of life achievement.

"Did you study business? Go start a company or why not help our struggling non-profits find better, more effective ways to serve folks in need. Did you study nursing? Understaffed clinics and hospitals across this country are desperate for your help. You study education? Teach in a high-needs school where the kids really need you," he said.

"So class of 2009," he continued, "that is what building a body of work is all about – it's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy."

But for all the uplift, the president offered a downbeat indictment of the economic achievements that he said plunged the nation – and the world – into recession.

"You're taught to chase after the usual brass rings, being on this 'who's who' list or that top 100 list, how much money you make and how big your corner office is; whether you have a fancy enough title or a nice enough car," he said. "Let me suggest that such an approach won't get you where you want to go. It displays a poverty of ambition, that in fact, the elevation of appearance over substance, celebrity over character, short-term gain over lasting achievement is precisely what your generation needs to help end."

He lamented politicians "worrying about the next election rather than the national interest." But in choosing Arizona State University, Mr. Obama was speaking at a university of 67,000 in a southwestern state that is likely to be at play in 2012, when Arizona's senator, John McCain, will not be on the ballot. On Thursday, Mr. Obama will hold a town hall meeting on credit card issues in New Mexico, another battleground state.

His travels since taking office have carried him on a tour of previously Republican states he took in November, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Florida, and North Carolina, and one, Missouri, he barely lost.

The AP reported earlier today:

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — High temperatures, not heated protests, greeted Barack Obama on Wednesday as he arrived at Arizona State University for his first commencement address as president.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president planned to "discuss the amazing opportunity that graduates have, the challenging world that they enter into, and — as he's done in many commencements before — talk about the fact that the choices that you make leaving college about being involved in your community and serving a purpose higher than yourself is tremendously important."

The White House did not release advanced excerpts of the speech before Air Force One left Washington.

While some 9,000 students were to collect diplomas at Sun Devil Stadium, Obama wasn't going to be one of them. University officials declined to give him an honorary degree, saying he had not yet accomplished enough to deserve the honor.

Officials later backtracked and instead named a scholarship in honor of the nation's first African-American president. The President Barack Obama Scholars program will offer students up to $17,000 annually to pay for tuition, books, room and board.

Also on stage: rocker Alice Cooper, who planned to perform "School's Out" for the expected 63,000-person crowd.

University officials warned those attending the ceremonies to expect waits of up to 90 minutes to clear security checkpoints. And it was hot — 101 degrees as people filed into the stadium in the afternoon.

An official at the university's emergency operations center said about 95 people were treated for heat-related illness while waiting for Obama's address. None of the illnesses were considered life-threatening.

Obama was to fly to Albuquerque after the speech. The president planned to have a town hall-style meeting Thursday in Albuquerque on proposed restrictions on credit card companies before he returned to Washington.

The White House has announced Obama plans other commencement addresses at the University of Notre Dame and the U.S. Naval Academy.

Student protests were expected Sunday at Notre Dame over Obama's support for abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research.