Oberlin Ohio is located about 35 miles south of Cleveland and its college namesake has all the ambiance of Berkeley. Yeah, like the one in California.\u00c2\u00a0 In that vein, the Class of 2007 wore \u00e2\u20ac\u0153non traditional\u00e2\u20ac\u009d attire, as demonstrated by one young lady dressed like a sixties flower child.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commencement Speaker Connie Shultz, journalist and wife of Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, made the gratuitous Democratic gesture of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moment of silence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for veterans, then proceeded to get down to the business of injecting anti-war politics into her speech.\u00c2\u00a0 Said she to the graduates: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re entering a world which we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve royally screwed up for you, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry for that.\u00c2\u00a0 But because I know you are better than you think you are, I am filled with hope.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 She did the perfunctory PR about the plight of the middle and working class while decrying U.S. policy in the war against Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n
Ok, first of all, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and why the pessimistic reference about the world?\u00c2\u00a0 This planet has never been a hospitable place 100% percent of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 If she wants to take the blame for a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153screwed up world\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, be my guest. But I can tell her this: the reason she and her fellow anti-war mates are able to stand before a graduating class of like-minded leftist ditto heads, is because the veterans she so briefly honored stand between freedom and tyrants who want to take it away and replace it with something not conducive to their way of life.<\/p>\n
If Ms. Schultz thinks that this new generation is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better than they think they are\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see what they do for their families, their communities and their country before we get our hopes up.\u00c2\u00a0 Every successive group of graduates has a sense of enthusiasm and hope tempered by a bit of trepidation. From what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen on my almost 50 years on this earth, we Americans have it pretty good.\u00c2\u00a0 Our standard of living is among the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best and even the poorest among us has a tax-payer working-class funded government dole.<\/p>\n
And speaking of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153royally screwed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, this particular crop of Congressional and Senatorial Democrats are some of the most mentally and emotionally unstable politicians, ever. Once known as the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcloyal opposition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, they have morphed into a gang of disloyal collaborators. Their distain for George W. Bush and the war against Islamic despots overrides any possibility of a unified, bi-partisan effort for the defense of the United States.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Domestically, they are elitist poufs who manipulate the unionized working class, the poor, and minorities into believing that in spite of the stark contrast between their lifestyles and their constituents, they really care. (wink,wink)<\/p>\n
Now that the Democrats run amok, we shall see how the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cut and run\u00e2\u20ac\u009d strategy, sympathy for terrorists, and lax attitude toward illegals and national security pans out.<\/p>\n
As long as there are American citizens and Soldiers guarding this country from despicable enemies, Schultz should keep her mea culpas to herself.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"