When you invite one of the nastiest, most abusive politicians in all of American history to be your commencement speaker, expect him to be nasty
(AP) President Barack Obama on Sunday urged college graduates to shun those who want to confront a rapidly changing world by building walls around the United States or by embracing ignorance, as he delivered a sharp and barely concealed critique of Donald Trump.
Obama used his commencement speech at Rutgers University to illustrate a world view antithetical to the ideas espoused by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Looking out at a sea of red and black gowns, Obama told the roughly 12,000 graduating students that the pace of change on the planet is accelerating, not subsiding, and that recent history had proved that the toughest challenges cannot be solved in isolation.
“A wall won’t stop that,” Obama said, bringing to mind Trump’s call for building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. “The point is, to help ourselves, we’ve got to help others — not pull up the drawbridge and try to keep the world out.”
The president never mentioned Trump by name, but his intended target seemed clear. Repeatedly, Obama referred to disparaging comments about Muslims and immigrants, and opposition to free trade deals. But he appeared most incensed by what he described as a rejection of facts, science and intellectualism that he said was pervading politics.
Obama whined on and on and on, because he surely thought that Rutgers graduates, on one of the biggest days of their young lives, wanted to listen to a political speech better reserved for a DNC fundraiser.
But, seriously, what about walls? Obama lives behind a big fence, one which the Secret Service wants to make bigger. Five feet bigger. And the security for the fence, an attempt to keep the world out, includes armed security, many with sniper rifles.
Apparently, walls work, because Team Obama is funding a wall on the Tunisia/Libya border to stop the flow of Islamists. There’s also partial funding for a wall in Jordan. And supposedly one in Niger to stop Boko Haram.
Perhaps Obama should have spent some time explaining how to be less than average on gross domestic product growth and how the graduates will be competing for minimum wage jobs in the service industry, thanks to Obama’s awesome policies.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Are you confusing walls and fences again? The White Hiuse has a fence .
And nope! They are building a fence in Jordan
And in Libya that is called a berm as it has sloping sides
Teach much of our Southern border is the Rio Grande river. Are you thinking we should build the wall in the middle of the river? Once any person is within the borders of the USA they are entitled to the full protection of our laws. And remember crossing the border without papers is not illegal, only attempting evasion of inspection is illegal
I’m thinking of the fence around the Tyrannosaurus paddock in Jurassic Park . . . .