obama just spoke at ohio's graduation

[Michchamp]

Boo!

 

[TheVictors]

....presumably, slowly.









heh

 

[Thumb]

Did he encourage them all to be the best fast food restaurant managers they can be?

 

[byco42]

Nothing like a president as the keynote speaker to foul up a commencement. Especially these days. I'm certain that the only thing people could bring in were the clothes on their backs. No liquids, that's for sure.

 

[tinselwolverine]

. No liquids, that's for sure.

Well, that fucked up that graduation, if that's the case...

 

[byco42]

Well, that fucked up that graduation, if that's the case...

Speaking at commencements would be another practice I'd curtail were I elected president.

My campaign slogan: "I've Got A Job To Do."

 

[tinselwolverine]

Speaking at commencements would be another practice I'd curtail were I elected president.

My campaign slogan: "I've Got A Job To Do."

Curtail, as opposed to eliminate?

Do you say "curtail" because you may consider speaking at the commencements at Annapolis or West Point or Colorado Springs?

And what about attending the Army - Navy football game?

Is that another inessential presiential tradition that you would do away with?

 

[Michchamp]

go to the Army-Navy game wearing a Coast Guard Academy t-shirt.

or a Viet Cong t-shirt. And then say "What? Oh, that. It's WhiteHouse laundry day."

 

[byco42]

Curtail, as opposed to eliminate?

Do you say "curtail" because you may consider speaking at the commencements at Annapolis or West Point or Colorado Springs?

And what about attending the Army - Navy football game?

Is that another inessential presiential tradition that you would do away with?

I can only not obverse these meaningless traditions, not eliminate them. I would perhaps make an exception for the service academies.

The Army-Navy game? No. I'd send a proxy to represent me.

 

[Michchamp]

I would go to the Army-Navy game and have two staffers hold the "Mission Accomplished" banner behind me, even if I had not accomplished any missions lately.

 

[byco42]

I would go to the Army-Navy game and have two staffers hold the "Mission Accomplished" banner behind me, even if I had not accomplished any missions lately.

Really? That ground is rather fallow. All you need to do is read the accounts of the occasion. Did you circle back to Duncan Donuts?

 

[Michchamp]

who is Duncan Donuts?

no.

I didn't discover my bagel wasn't toasted until I was already on the freeway sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Tomorrow, I'll toast an english muffin at home. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, I guess.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I can only not obverse these meaningless traditions, not eliminate them. I would perhaps make an exception for the service academies.

The Army-Navy game? No. I'd send a proxy to represent me.

Right.

I meant "eliminate" during the tenure of your presidency.

However, if all of your successors followed your example, you would have effectively eliminated them.

 

[TheVictors]

It's the classic dilemma between doing your job and being visible about doing your job. Take the Workforce initiative following the 2008 election.

Sean Hannity embarks on some hard hitting journalism to reveal just how much "government waste" we're seeing with the road signs created to inidicate that these various projects are "your taxpayer dollars at work."

Sure the signs are an added cost and likely a waste ....but were there no signs, the hard-hitting journalist that is Sean Hannity instead asks, "where are your taxpayers dollars at work?! I mean, how hard would it be to put a sign by some of these projects so we red-blooded Americans can see how our money is being spent!?"

So a President that doesn't show up at something as boring as the Army-Navy game runs the risk of severe criticism, just as Dubya did for shooting that absurd footage about a half-mile off downtown San Diego's coast declaring "Victory" in Iraq.

I think the whole thing needs to be blown up and started over...

 

[turok]

Did he encourage them all to be the best fast food restaurant managers they can be?

Did he ask for a show of hands so that his staffers could tally the total number of grads who had studied and become fluent in Mandarin?

 

[byco42]

It's the classic dilemma between doing your job and being visible about doing your job. Take the Workforce initiative following the 2008 election.

Sean Hannity embarks on some hard hitting journalism to reveal just how much "government waste" we're seeing with the road signs created to inidicate that these various projects are "your taxpayer dollars at work."

Sure the signs are an added cost and likely a waste ....but were there no signs, the hard-hitting journalist that is Sean Hannity instead asks, "where are your taxpayers dollars at work?! I mean, how hard would it be to put a sign by some of these projects so we red-blooded Americans can see how our money is being spent!?"

So a President that doesn't show up at something as boring as the Army-Navy game runs the risk of severe criticism, just as Dubya did for shooting that absurd footage about a half-mile off downtown San Diego's coast declaring "Victory" in Iraq.

I think the whole thing needs to be blown up and started over...

There is some question as to the reason for the sign. Some say it's because the Abraham Lincoln completed a deployment. Others say it was for the taking of Bag-dad (sic). I say it was because the ship's skipper dropped the kids off at the pool after a bout of the binds.

 

[TheVictors]

I have clients in downtown SD who said they could see the whole thing out the window when it happened ... "Mission Accomplished," not "Victory" as I erroneously first posted.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I have clients in downtown SD who said they could see the whole thing out the window when it happened ... "Mission Accomplished," not "Victory" as I erroneously first posted.

There's actually a proposal into the LA City Council to change the name of "Victory Blvd." to "Mission Accomplished" Blvd...