ASU Says Obama To Inexperienced For An Honorary Degree
Posted on April 10, 2009
Starting your day off with Teh Funny (how did it start where Interwebers wrote the Teh?) Arizona State: Obama unready for degree
President Barack Obama may be delivering a commencement address at Arizona State University this Spring – one of three campuses where the president will send off the graduating classes of 2009 – but he won’t be coming home with any degree.
While “it’s common for universities to confer honorary degrees on commencement speakers,” Dawn Teo writes from Tempe for the Huffington Post,“Arizona State says it has specific rules for recognizing academic achievement and Obama’s ‘body of work is yet to come.”
She cites ASU Media Relations Director Sharon Keeler as saying that Arizona’s honorary degrees are given “for an achievement of eminence” and that the president was not considered for an honorary degree because his body of achievements, at this time, does not meet the criteria.
Now, is that really fair? The president surely has a body of achievements. He was a community agitator, he worked hard on behalf of ACORN, he ran for the Chicago State Senate, he was possibly born in Hawaii (that’s a joke, let’s not go there,) he taught constitutional law, he became a US Senator and voted present a lot, wrote a few books that sold very well, then ran for president. Then he….you know, I started writing this paragraph as a joke, was going to mention many of his foreign affairs gaffes and his bloated government measures, but, really, no matter what one thinks of Obama – and he was certainly way too experienced to be the President – it sure seems to me that he does have the enough experience to be given an honorary degree. Strange, eh?
Maybe it has something to do with Obama really having been nothing special without his hard left friends, his Chicago machine connections, and Secretary Teleprompter. It does seem like a snub. Or maybe ASU which is in a good Red State is annoyed by all the anti-American talk and Bush bashing Obama has engaged in.
According to the ASU State Press, ASU President Michael Crow told the degree committee that “significant contributions to education and society over the course of a person’s career merit consideration for an honorary degree.”
Well, if we go by that definition, I guess he doesn’t deserve one. Still seems to be a slight, though. I wonder if Obama will all of a sudden have to pull out of giving he speech?
It’s still kinda funny, though.
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Arizona is dodging a great deal of grief in the form of anti bama sentiment.He is NO ACADEMIC of note.For six days and nights I have tried to call Notre Dame to protest the bama’s speech and his honorary law degree.
Notre Dame is being taken off the list of Catholic Colleges. Alumni are withdrawing financial support. Notre Dame has been corrupted by progressives. Ave Maria College about to get more Law School applications. That is the good that will come from the Notre Dame protest. It should be noted Notre Dame has been slipping of late being a real Catholic University anyway. There are other Orthodox Catholic Colleges who would never think of inviting the bama.
As far as the bama writing for the Harvard Law Review: affirmative action brought Harvard down and the Review rendered worthless in that period.
The bama is indeed an “F” rated law student and passed by affirmative action which clouds real academic achievement.
Sharon Keeler is the one who needs to be scrutinized, NOT President Obama.
How did Keeler get that job, anyway? As far as my research shows, Keeler’s total achievement is a B.A. in English. Obama has an Ivy League education and worked as a civil rights attorney for years. He’s made history as our first black president. He will go on to make history during his presidency, I assure you.
I think it’s deeper than Obama’s not being “qualified” for an honorary degree at ASU. It sounds like pure and simple prejudice to me.
Try to keep in mind that people Keeler’s age aren’t old enough to remember the USA before Reagan. They’ve never really experienced a Democratic America. The Republican world view is all they know. It’s a shame, really.