Michelle Obama’s graduation advice
The First Lady urged graduates of UC Merced “to give something back:”
First lady Michelle Obama praised graduating students at California’s smallest, youngest public university for their determination to succeed, urging them to give back to their communities with the same fervor they showed to bring her to campus.
In her debut as a commencement speaker on Saturday, Mrs. Obama evoked the struggles of California’s founders — settlers and former slaves, trailblazers and immigrants — to encourage the 493 members of the school’s senior class to use their newfound skills to lift up those around them.
“Many of you may be considering leaving town with your diploma in hand, and it wouldn’t be unreasonable,” Mrs. Obama said before a crowd of 12,000 wilting in the blazing afternoon sun. “By using what you’ve learned here you can shorten the path perhaps for kids who may not see a path at all. I was once one of those kids.”
Clothed in a long black robe and academic regalia, Mrs. Obama spoke of her own drive to get ahead despite the odds, recounting the challenges her working-class family faced on Chicago’s South Side.
“You will face tough times. You will certainly have doubts, and let me tell you because I know I did when I was your age,” she said. “Remember that you are blessed. Remember that in exchange for those blessings, you must give something back. You must reach back and pull someone up. You must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders so that they can see a brighter future.”
Give as she says, not as she gives, grads.
Flashback: Obamas Donated Less Than 1% of Their 2000-2004 Income
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign…The Obamas made their church, Trinity United Church of Christ, one of the biggest beneficiaries of their philanthropy, donating $27,500.
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Nothing wrong with giving.
Yeah. Obama and his mean wife should try it.
They have the taking thing down pat…
Do as I say, not as I do….
/sarc
Yeah I like serving foods to the homeless in $500 sneakers…Not.
I can’t hear what you are saying because your actions speak so much louder than your words.
So. Another Obama fraud rambles. Why didn’t she tell them about what happened to her lawyer license while she was “giving” back?
Lessee…
She droned on for 25 minutes while people cooked in the sun…
all to say, “Give something back…”?
She gets a “T” for trite…
and an “S” for self-absorbed.
TS…about what we expect from a Leftist…
What were those students given that warrants giving back? Did they not earn their degrees? Her remarks suggest that academic degrees are given as priveleges instead of earned. How does her personal experience weigh on this?
Oh, that’s rich. Kinda like her husband blathering about how “unsustainable” it is how the government is spending money right now.
Barry and his wife are like ipecac. They make me sick.
OK, Mickey babe, why don’t you first have your husband and Congress give us back out taxes and stop spending us into oblivion. We might just have something left over to give others then.
Kind of an insult to those graduates who were likely siphoned pretty hard for 4 or more years for a meaningless degree that won’t get them a job in their field anyway. They probably got liberal indoctrination for free, though.
What total schmucks these people are.
You must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders so that they can see a brighter future. Translated: You must bend over and let us liberals kneel behind you so Barack and I have a brighter future.
No, no. You have it all wrong. She was merely preparing these individuals to become TAXPAYERS. That’s the sort of Washington “giving back” she was referring to.
If the graduates don’t work hard and achieve things for themselves, they won’t have anything to give back.
Self-interest benefits the community.
Why don’t the FauxBamas go into poor neighborhoods and tell the people to stop sucking and failing at life?
And of course she knows what was in the minds and hearts of California’s founders at that time and what a great example they are.
More likely they were concocting ways to wrest the region away from Mexico, shoot trespassers, hang thieves and murders (that’s how places like Hangtown, CA (now Placerville, CA) got their name) and keep themselves and their families safe from the scoff-laws and ne’er-do-wells.
Hey, Mrs. Socialist’bama how ‘bout evoking America’s national founders as examples for your husband to follow.
Ooops, guess that shoe doesn’t fit.
What’s wrong with giving back by serving in the military? Now that’s a sacrifice we can all respect. Well, most of us.
I doubt her sincerity, like I doubt her husbands Muslim desires. Giving back is like Al Gore demanding we reduce our standard of living.
The First Lady and The First Teleprompter seem to be on the same page. Here is what the President read from the teleprompter at Arizona State on Wednesday:
The President’s comments remind me of a man from Chicago who got into politics using the old “formulas for success.” He used dirty tricks, political favors, and legal technicalities to get his opponents out of the race. Once in office, he voted present or didn’t even show up to work because he was out campaigning for a better office and a fancier title. His name will come to me any minute now. It’s right on the tip of my tongue…
The word here is “give”. Typical socialist thinking. Why didn’t she just be honest and come out and say, “Giving to the state will set you free.”
I am more than a little tired of Affirmative Action and/or Chicago cheap trick Grifters giving advice on anything.
Michelle O knows nothing of Service, Sacrifice or Hardships of any kind.
Serving up cheap grub for a photo op at a soup kitchen in $500.00+ tennies is just crass beyond belief.
Slavery is what happens when the Government spends more than any Generation can ever repay.
She knows nothing about Pioneers, Founding Fathers, Slavery or building anything besides an inflated resume and personal wealth as a result of milking the system. The Great Society on Steroids, more costly and hugely more wasteful.
Hard work or Humility? Not on her dance card. Spare me her advice.
The words of either Obama ring hollow.
Almost verbatim, those were my first thoughts after having read her remarks. I wonder whose throat, er, shoulders she stood on so she wouldn’t have to “fall back on the formulas for success”.
These Socialists are becoming more and more brazen in their rhetoric and policies. The people that hang on their every word and do nothing less than squeal with delight at every hackneyed platitude don’t hear the meaning behind the words. Jim Jones would have been proud of these high-volume droolers. It would be interesting to see how many of these grads step out of the “kool-aid” line at the last minute as the stark reality washes over them, “My God, what have we done?” Indeed.
/disjointed and fragmented thought pattern but, written as I thought of it./
It’s rather amusing that she can ask others to sacrifice after working a $300k faux position at the University of Chicago Hospital that was eliminated after she left.
From the clip from Michelle Malkin’s opening thread “Michelle Obama’s graduation advice,”
Is “Trinity United Church of Christ” one of the charities to which they gave $10,772? The clip also states that the biggest beneficiary, the church, received $27,500.
The numbers do not add up.
I suppose that the charities which received $10,772 are considered different and separate from the church which received $27,500.
If the church is one of those charities then the numbers don’t add up, for $27,500 is larger than $10,772.
Nevertheless, we should all be grateful that someone who is morally superior to us all is here to tell us how to live our lives, how to give back what we were given, and to volunteer our time to community service.
Its not like anyone was doing so before Barrack Hussein Obama and his wife, Michelle came forward and “inspired” us.
(Place “Sarcasm” and “Barf” icon here).
I usually don’t concern myself with addressing a person’s appearance.
With that in mind, am I the only person who is tired of the media, including Fox News, MSNBC, the print media, Hollywood celebrities, television celebrities, and others, raving about how beautiful, elegant, radiant, and so forth that Michelle Obama is?
When they call attention to her like that and I end up actually paying attention, I do not find her to be any of those things.
Michelle Obama comes off more like an Oprah Winfrey cult member who has copied the Oprah Winfrey method of talking, philosophizing, and bantering.
Truer words were never spoken, West Coast!
Are you kidding? They want us all to be those folks in the poor neighborhoods, so they can take care of us all!
The part she left out is that if you don’t give back, they’ll make you.
Indeed. President and Mrs. Redistributionist have spoken.
Good grief. This woman is a life long quota queen. Study the history of her education and look in wonder at the long trail of special breaks she got because of her skin color and her famous brother.
She was never less than middle class.
This is just outrageous.
What’s with all this “giving back” nonsense?
I’ve never had anything given to me. Everything I have I’ve had to work hard for, to scrap, scrape and overcome obstacles put in my way by people like the Obamas and their supporters.
Interesting philosophy. Her husband is preaching that only government can make a difference and a career in non-profits is the way to go.
Her remarks imply the individual can make a difference.
I understand about the Obamas’ hypocrisy, but if she can inspire people to give back in a good way, works for me.
Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity, the military, your local church, giving blood etc. etc. etc.; there are many ways to give the gift of time.
that’s simple it wouldn’t be in concert with their distribute the wealth agenda…poor neighborhoods are where they need to distribute the wealth not encourage to work…
Give back? Wow, sort’ve weird coming from someone who’s given less than 1% of their combined household’s income in the last 5 years. Words are just words without action behind them…
It`s too bad we no longer throw tomatoes at goons on stage. I would loved to have been there and thrown some Texas sized whoppers at that a** clown.
I hear you singlestack. I am sure you did. But if you look back you will find people in your life that gave back in ways you never realize.
My HS coach bought his own sewing equipment and repaired all of our equipment on his own time for free. This gave us the money to buy the better gear than anyone else. This reduced injuries in things like football and helped us compete.
That’s giving back. I don’t think much of the messenger, but the message is okay with me.
The way I heard it – for her it really was given as a privilege of her race and not her ability or efforts and she really didn’t deserve her attendance to Princeton / Harvard due to affirmative action. Only the Obama’s knows if he earned or was given his big break (again due to race) – his records are sealed.
Remember someone did not get to go to Princeton who probably worked very, very, hard to get it – but just happened to be white (or East Asian).
I assume her $300,000 A YEAR NO SHOW JOB was her giving back.
“The First Lady urged graduates of UC Merced “to give something back:””
I think that is a typo — Should have been “Take something back”
Conservatives (and anyone with a brain) have got to quit using the Marxist inspired double speak “giving back”. 99% of the time the term is used it is dishonest and used only to move people away from capitalism and toward collectivism. The only things I was ever given in my life were my parents’ love and some presents. Everything else, from my education to my job to my house, I earned. I pay taxes to support society. I am under no obligation to give anyone anything.
The “giving back” term is easy for liberals to use because it captures the fundamentals of their world view of people giving based on political coercion and the correct political viewpoint. For example, Obama given the presidency by the media and his supporters solely because his skin was the right color, MO given a Harvard education and a 6 figure job because of the color of her skin, Sean Penn and Milk given awards which they did not deserve but solely because they expressed the correct political opinion, Teddy given a pass for being involved in the death of a young woman. That’s the kind of giving liberals believe in, giving that undermines or ignores hard work and honesty, giving that promotes their political viewpoint.
People like flyoverman have got to quit drinking the koolaid.
MM says:
but neglects the followup
Of which, at some point during THOSE years, they donated the $27,500 to the racist church.
Nice.
I watched the address because my oldest son will be attending UC Merced in the Fall.
I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one but the tone of the speech went negative towards the end, just as it was supposed to be uplifting.
She told the graduates that they will be tested, which is true but instead of using one or two examples of how they might be greeted by setbacks she went on and on.
It was depressing.
I tried to understand the message from her perspective and what I came up with is her view of success in America is not in the same vein as an entrepreneur.
Instead of giving back as part of life as a whole she wants to see a life of giving as in we are all in this struggle together.
No discussion of balance between giving back and enjoying your successes.
I was disappointed and I am sure others were as well. In fact there were many empty seats. Very telling in my opinion considering this event was the biggest thing to come to Merced, sadly ever.
What a bunch of collectivist BS.
When you become a member of an organization you voluntarily accept an obligation to be a productive member of that organization. Meeting that obligation can take many forms, depending on the type and needs of an organization and the skills of the member. What your coach did was a valuable, productive act, not any kind of “giving back”. What did the organization do for him that would require any sort of “giving back”? The organization took from him in the form of his money, time and talent. I’m sure he derived a great deal of satisfaction and happiness from his charitable act but he in no way “gave back” anything.
My guess is that Ms.O has the mindset that (being black), she has been giving all her life.
Your comparison invites skepticism of the level of altruism behind the Obama donations being increased for the years 2005-06.
The years mentioned by MM (2000-04) show donations relatively low, when the quest was merely for Obama to obtain the Illinois’ senate seat; the years HuffPo cites (2005-06) show donations were upped, when it was likely decided the Obama’s would seek national office.
Thus it is more than reasonable to question whether the Obama’s donate for love of charity, or for political expediency.
Oh, there really is no question…
as we say in the law, Res ipsa loquitur…
“the thing speaks for itself”
OT, but you gotta hear this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcroQEkzZjA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F17%2Fvideo-remix-wanda-sykes-roasts-obama-the-way-he-deserves%2F&feature=player_embedded
I guess that “giving back” by studying hard, working hard, and through the entrepreneurial spirit that defines America, create a company that creates jobs that employ people and create goods and services that have value is not a valid “path to success”……
Hey, a “public service” job that pays $300K is good work if you can get it — the trouble with all Socialists is they never seem to understand that public service money requires the presence of a productive class to actually DO something of value to create wealth.
The hypocrisy of these two Socialists is disgusting.
Kind of like her and hubby gave autographed pictures of themselves to the school their girls attend so they could raise money?
The Obamas really are narcissistic. They aren’t going to any great lengths to give to anybody. They are in fact going to great lengths to steal money from achievers and to put lower income people into a kind of slavery to the govt.
Her full time makeup artist isn’t succeeding. She still looks (and sounds) angry.
OK, You got me… how can new grads that can’t find work in the broken Obama economy give anything back?
Obama out before 2010!
Because She is Entitled and America is not destroyed enough to suit her yet…
Totally On Topic and You All had better believe that Obama believes every word of that trash.
old trooper: Yet is the key word in your comment.
Of course the Obama’s only began giving to charity when known they did little. In their minds their mere precense on the planet is of such benefit they are convinced that is enough of a contribution.
What this article failed to mention.
http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1868181.html
and
So UC Merced and California taxpayers are out $440,000 extra when we have a huge deficit going on in our state.
Thank you Michelle Obama for forcing me as a CA taxpayer to “give” for allow you speak here in CA.
oops allow should be allowing.
Income redistribution is not giving. Mandatory volunteerism is not giving back. Community activism is promoting entitlement. Where does she get this “giving back” garbage that she’s promoting? I donate my time and money to those who need it and appreciate it because I promote the advancement of skills and learning to groups who can’t afford it. I don’t show up in $500 dollars shoes either. I’m more likely to donate the $500 to the group for supplies. It is doubtful that any of these graduates need her advice for anything.
it would seem the graduating class of UC Merced expecting a visionary speech instead got, nothing. the give me your wallet scam.
She let the health care system give her $300,000 a year for a job she didn’t even show up for. She is obviously an excellent role model.
That was an expensive pile of crap the graduates had the misfortune of having shoved down their throats on a day they should be excited to enter the working world looking forward to the benefits of their hard work in school, not being readied to accept low paying jobs or over taxation by the all giving Obama affirmative action duo.
Isn’t it not something how one-way selfish liberals are…do as I say, not as I do…their golden rule.
Is there anyone out there who can say that Mrs. O reached back and pulled you up right after she graduated? Did she help support you in school? Did she help get you a job at which you have now become successful by your own initiative? Do you have a story that isn’t a Winter Soldier Fable?
Is there anyone out there who can say that Mrs. O bent down and let you stand on her shoulders to see a brighter future? And did you realize that future because of it? Tell us your story.
You Must. You must you must you must.
Next up: You Will.
After that: You Are.
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You=any intelligent person who is or potentially will be making any money
Must=is hereby ordered
Give back=to take x-amount of what you earned (x equaling whatever we say it should be) to enable others to remain helpless
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What did they take that they have to give back? To whom do they owe their blessings? Since we’re not a Christian country, that statement is perplexing. Is she saying they should consider themselves lucky to have earned their degrees?
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Ugh. Is it just me, or are your shoulders getting sore, too? I can’t see anything. Is something happening up there?
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You Must. Beat people over the head with it. The power of repetitive persuasion—pass it on.
There I fixed it for her.
This is a must read…
It certainly explains a lot….
Ewww….
More goodies…
No great big surprise…
I agree with M.O.,and I think she and B.O. should lead by example,and give us our country back.
Now the Obamas are living above their Abilities and Our Means…but are useful Idiots for those that hate America. 53% of Americans voted stupid so We got that.
MO isn’t talking about donating to the Salvation Army, helping out a week-end a month at a soup kitchen or becoming a mentor such as the big brother / big sister program.
This is a continuation of the barbara streisand she told those women in Ohio during the campaign to forego a career in business / the private sector (especially finance ala Wall Street) and become a social worker or some other employee of the governnment involved in “giving back.”
Why didn’t either MO or BO follow that career path? MO was handed a do-nothing 6 figure job as the result of BO becoming a senator and what he could do in that position for the hospital. Pure tit for tat. BO didn’t become some flunky working in public health or the probation system. He became a “community organizer” where he could play fast and loose with model citizens like Tony Rezko and William Ayers while building a contact base that lead him to the # 1 job in the world.
MO and BO are phonier than a $3 bill with their “give back” spiel.
Of course you should give, because Mr. Obama is planning on taxing your donations too! Taxing it on the way in, taxing it on the way out.
Like her hubby Obamaslut is into income redistribution…
just as long as it’s not hers…
Tazed, I think your reference to Mrs. Obama was over the top. We all post here, and we are known by the company we keep. We deplore excessive language when done by Leftists. We should be better.
Yeah, and there in Merced sales taxes are what – 10% or so? Perspective.
Also, Asian Americans are being asked by the University of California system to give. Give up going to UC that is. UC is changing entance requirements that will lower the number of Asians while increasing the numbers of whites. Hispanics and black – the same numbers.
Which is racism, a impure and corrupt as any in history. That needs to be fought in the courts.
Sorry Rags,
This was already fought to the US Supreme Court in the University of Michigan Law school case in AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS
Gratz and Hamacher / Grutter
v.
The Regents of the University of Michigan
Sadly the plantiffs lost, and hopefully the Ricci vs. De Stefano case pending in the US Supreme Court case might eliminate racial preferences once and for all.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Guns;
I understand, but if cases like that are not lined up, one on top of the other, this racial discrimination will never be reversed. Courts are not insensitive to public opinion (for good or ill), and the mood of the nation is decidedly against the kinds of racial preference at work here.
We are in the “post-racial” America…right?
Maybe Shellie Obama should have spoken of the evils of plagiarism, too…
Maureen Dowd was caught nicking crap from a blogger. It wasn’t even particularly bright crap…just more crap.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/17/wow-maureen-dowd-plagiarizes-lefty-blogger/
Idiots of a feather, as they say…
The First Hypocrite speaks:
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my Country”.
Michelle Obama 2008.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”.
Karl Marx 1875.
cristomer,
“If you know yourself and you know your enemy in a hundred battles you will be victorious. If you know only yourself or your enemy your odds are equal. If you know neither yourself nor your enemy you will be in peril every battle.”
I found it intersting after reading your post about me I had just returned from church where the sermon from my very strict conservative Chistian pastor mirrored what Mrs. Obama said. You think he’s another Michelle Obama? Not hardly.
I am somehwere to the right of Atilla the Hun. However, I pick my battles and for those of you slamming Mrs. Obama all I can tell you is wrong person, wrong fight, wrong approach.
Mrs. Obama is not an elected official, and trying to castigate her message because she’s a hypocrite ony resonates with people who already know that she is. So other than venting what’s to be gained from beating up Michelle Obama?
If you have any memory this tactic was tried in 1995-96 and our reward was four more years of Clinton. When we attack then personally it is ALWAYS ineffective. We are painted as mean spirited, knuckle draggers. We have to go after their POLICIES.
It’s not personal. It’s business. I have ZERO time for Obama, but shooting personal bullets at him and his wife is a waste of ammo.
Make you a deal. I will lay off the Kool Aid. You try not to be stuck on stupid.
Obama tells Notre Dame to find common ground on controversial topics. So what is “common ground” when you are discussing abortion? Aborting only up to the 20th week? His misundertanding of the pro-life perspective is stunning, as well as Mrs. O’s track record of charity.
Flyoverman, it’s not a waste of ammo to bring to light the hypocrisy of the Obamas. Words are our ammo right now. And you know, there’s no shortage of that kind of ammo!
Educating newbies who may come across this weblog is not a waste of ammo. Destressing by dissing the Obama’s may even be considered healthy for some of us!
singlestack,
Based on the posts today, is the moon full?
What did my coach give back? Because of his volunteer work OUTSIDE of what was expected of him we used the repair money we did not spend to buy better equipment than we could otherwise not afford.
Was it a small thing? I had a helmet that most teams could not afford. I remember catching a pass and meeting a DB at least my size head on. I got up. He did not. The difference was the technical superiority of my helmet. My coach’s volunteer effort and GIVING BACK prevented a concussion.
My coach’s grave is 25 yeards from my father. I never fail to stop and see him and say. “Thanks coach, for all you did for me.”
Collectivist? Ya right. As I said above, “Don’t be stuck on stupid.”
Hey, whatever works. If you do not mind, I’ll wait for the vehicle with all of the attennas and light it up.
Flyover, You got a smile from moi!
Spot on! I also loved his rationalization that it was unfair to not experiment using the stem cells of an unborm child to make life easier for a diabetic child.
THAT REALLY POINTED OUT WHAT THE OTHER SIDE’S VALUES ARE.
I wonder what people would have thought about “coming together” to reduce the number of slaves and agreeing to disagree that people were living in our country in slavery?
Are 10,000 slaves okay, or 2,000 or 1,000 ……… Obama lives in a world where the sacrifice of a few is acceptable for the good of the state.
He’s vulnerable as can be on this one.
It appears the Obamas have been robbing God…
ONE TERMERS
If They last that long.
If Mrs. Obama and Mr. Obama really mean that we should all stoop down and let someone else stand on our shoulders, and that we should “give back” and help others less fortunate than we are, will the Obamas come over to our house and “give back” a few million of their dollars so that we can “stand on their shoulders” and be more prosperous as they “give us a lift?”
Na.
I don’t want to touch their money, but it would be nice if they would leave ours alone.
Barrack is putting us and our children into deep debt.
And I give 10% off the top to my church plus others–closer to 16-17% of gross. But I do not demand other give anything nor do I hire others to take it from them as the government does. And as I plan on having little taxable income for the next few years no, it is not tax deductible. Nor did I use taxpayer money to wrangle a big job for my wife.
President Obama’s 4.7 and 6.1% does not impress. Charity given with a loud voice is more ego than free giving.
Did she talk about all she accomplished at her $300k a year ‘no show up” job, and how they can get one like it?
She really is the accomplished hustler, so her tips would be valuable to the wanna bees.
Michelle Obama telling new graduates to GIVE is laughable. Maybe she can tell all the grads about how she walked the walk.
Or not…
Did it occur to her that Americans give an incredible sum of money to charitable causes and donate vast amounts of time to same? And all this is done -volunarily-. We do so without the helping redistributive hand of the Obama’s.
Does she have a clue of how much Catholic Parishioners give to charity? How much time they volunteer in their community helping people in need? How much food and clothing are donated to families and people in need?
In this country that she is so ashamed of… we are doing just fine without her “instruction”.
I’d like her to GIVE us all a break.
Those newly minted grads will be “giving”, all right; they’ll be “giving” more of their money to the govt to pay off Obama’s new record-setting deficits; they’ll be “giving” more of their money than previous grads to pay off their enormous student-loan debt; and they’ll be “giving” YET MORE of their money to the govt once Obama gets his socialized healthcare system.
Oh, YEAH!!! Like I need advice from the bitter half. No thank you.
How are your coach’s actions “giving back”? What debt was he repaying?
What he did was charity. What did you do to “give back” to him?
Your inability to discern the difference shows that you’re the one who’s stuck on stupid.
Post #94 is directed to flyoverman.
If she wants to give back, she’d better give that mouth back to the moray eel she took it from…
You people have lost your minds – complain, complain, complain……
IHMC #97: Because Obama and his hyphenated American, unelected, unaccountable to anyone wife give us so much to complain about. Geez, putz, get a life.
You’re right, I shouldn’t complain. When someone tells me I should give, who gives little herself, I should just laugh. HA HA.