Oh SNAP.

HERO Tag needed!!!

I guess Obama will have to list his real degree when he applies for a job.

the butt hurt is strong with this one

Now if Notre Dame would follow this that would be great!

/No he has not been in Office long enough to get any awards!
//And he is for abortion and its a So called Pro life Catholic College...so that is not a good thing to do.

Damn... and if there's one thing ASU understands; it's failing to live up to standards

/Wildcat

It sounds like Arizona generally doesn't automatically give honorary degrees to its speakers. I'd look at the history of past speakers at that university and see what percentage of them got honorary degrees with this speech. If its low I'd give Arizona a pass, if its very high I'd say they are being partisan.

Yeah, this is a little funny, but my guess is if they just want to avoid criticism like the Universities who gave Bush an honorary degree right away.

C'mon, give Lord Zero some slack.

He is learning on the job, after all.

My alma mater doesn't confer honorary degrees on anyone. The whole idea seems pretty stoopid to me.

It always comes back to Bush, doesn't it?

MindStalker: If its low I'd give Arizona a pass, if its very high I'd say they are being partisan.

What if it's high because the majority of speakers were much older and more experienced? Would it still be partisan then?

This wouldn't have happened to a white first term president of the US.

//my troll-fu is weak but developing

MindStalker: It sounds like Arizona generally doesn't automatically give honorary degrees to its speakers. I'd look at the history of past speakers at that university and see what percentage of them got honorary degrees with this speech. If its low I'd give Arizona a pass, if its very high I'd say they are being partisan.

The story seems to be generated by the editorial. They'd been better served to submit Obama's name to the honorary degree committee if they give such a shiat.

In other news, ASU reports record numbers of applications this summer....

Someone didn't kiss his ring? Expect Congressional legislation from Pelosi to correct this injustice post haste.

Non-issue. Personally I don't think they should even have honorary degrees.

While I have always found the practice of honorary degrees to be silly, I don't understand how someone can be qualified enough to give advice in the form of a commencement speech to current graduates, but not be deemed qualified enough to receive a fake degree from the same university.

http://graduation.asu.edu/honorary/past

Somehow I don't think any perceived slight will be taken well by the student body. Expect a follow-up shortly.

Well then, the bow to the ASU President is right out.

3_Butt_Cheeks: In other news, ASU reports record numbers of applications this summer....

Yeah because graduating high school students hate Obama.

What an Arizona State graduate may look like.

Satan_Sunburn: C'mon, give Lord Zero some slack.

He is learning on the job, after all.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Someone didn't kiss his ring? Expect Congressional legislation from Pelosi to correct this injustice post haste.

and here we observe freeper butthurt in the wild.

approves.

Is this the right wing circle jerk thread for today? OK good, I'm running low on talking points.

/whips out notepad

And he is for abortion and its a So called Pro life Catholic College...so that is not a good thing to do.

The one thing I will give Catholics credit for is that they are both anti-abortion and anti-death penalty. There is none of that strage cognitive dissonance that most fundies have in that respect.

Did the same pro-lifers at Notre Dame have a problem when Reagan and Bush Sr. gave commencement speeches? The two earlier presidents were not-opposed to the death penalty. It would be hyporcritical to oppose Obama and not the other two.

Mighty Taternuts 2009-04-10 10:28:57 AM
and here we observe freeper butthurt in the wild.

Careful! You might scare them off!

As long as the same standard has been applied to other Presidents' first terms, I have no problem with this.

Mighty Taternuts: Satan_Sunburn: C'mon, give Lord Zero some slack.

He is learning on the job, after all.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Someone didn't kiss his ring? Expect Congressional legislation from Pelosi to correct this injustice post haste.

and here we observe freeper butthurt in the wild.

Liberal butthurt is butthurt. You pick this silly non-story to get your panties in a wad this morning?

bassmonkeee: While I have always found the practice of honorary degrees to be silly, I don't understand how someone can be qualified enough to give advice in the form of a commencement speech to current graduates, but not be deemed qualified enough to receive a fake degree from the same university.

Welcome to the wonderful of Academia...


Seems rather silly to use this as a way to feel justified in one's dislike of Obama, but there's a lot of silly farkers around here, so I'm looking forward to the biatching and moaning...

That my friend is some WORLD CLASS BUTTHURT


Writing two best-sellers? Not outstanding. Developing one of the largest grassroots organizations in the world? Nothing special. Becoming the first African American President of the United States? Good, but nothing to write home about.

Heaven must be easier to get into than Arizona State.

this is the academic version of "refusing stimulus money"

h8_u_2 2009-04-10 10:37:19 AM
That my friend is some WORLD CLASS BUTTHURT


Writing two best-sellers? Not outstanding. Developing one of the largest grassroots organizations in the world? Nothing special. Becoming the first African American President of the United States? Good, but nothing to write home about.

Which of these justifies him getting the degree?

Two best sellers? Lot of people with two best sellers and no honorary degree.

Setting up an organization run by ACORN - a group now under investigation by Congress for nationwide voter fraud?

Getting elected POTUS, half white or not, doesn't justify getting one either.

pd771 2009-04-10 10:11:11 AM
Yeah, this is a little funny, but my guess is if they just want to avoid criticism like the Universities who gave Bush an honorary degree right away.

Can you name any that gave him a honorary degree within six months of his taking office? This is a serious question, not a troll.

And good for Arizona.

You folks are just as bad, if not worse, than any of Bush supporters.

Cubicle Jockey: And he is for abortion and its a So called Pro life Catholic College...so that is not a good thing to do.

The one thing I will give Catholics credit for is that they are both anti-abortion and anti-death penalty. There is none of that strage cognitive dissonance that most fundies have in that respect.

Did the same pro-lifers at Notre Dame have a problem when Reagan and Bush Sr. gave commencement speeches? The two earlier presidents were not-opposed to the death penalty. It would be hyporcritical to oppose Obama and not the other two.

Catholicism of late has been trying to out evangelicalize the evangelicals. It's been a damn sick decline to watch if you've been raised in the Catholic tradition of social justice -- where yes, they abhor abortion, but not over feeding the poor or education.

Personally, to watch the Church turn into yet another arm of the wingnut fringe makes me ill. And I no longer claim it culturally, nor personally.

Because, locally, they've been all to happy to put up their faux baby grave yards -- yet not a peep about our wars of aggression.

It's not a religion, it's a political faction.

3_Butt_Cheeks: Liberal butthurt is butthurt. You pick this silly non-story to get your panties in a wad this morning?

I have not even commented on the story. You commented twice once calling for the HERO TAG!!!1!! and once saying they will see a big jump in applications which won't happen for several reasons, one of the biggest being that they stop accepting applications March 1 and the second is that most of those applying like Obama.

So you can take your fail sunny side up with a side of butthurt this morning.

3_Butt_Cheeks: Mighty Taternuts: Satan_Sunburn: C'mon, give Lord Zero some slack.

He is learning on the job, after all.

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Someone didn't kiss his ring? Expect Congressional legislation from Pelosi to correct this injustice post haste.

and here we observe freeper butthurt in the wild.

Liberal butthurt is butthurt. You pick this silly non-story to get your panties in a wad this morning?

Hasn't pretty much everyone here (except you and your WOO-HOO HERO!!!! post) been saying this is a silly non-story?

I expect that Obama will collect a lot of honorary degrees both during and after his two terms in office. If I were running a third-tier state university, I wouldn't pass up a chance to associate my school with the President of the United States. I certainly wouldn't blow an opportunity to put my school's name near the top of the list.

But then again, we are talking about Arizona State, which from all reports behaves as if it's a branch of BYU, but with less emphasis on academics.

Actually, mfaby's panties seem a bit bunched.

h8_u_2: Writing two best-sellers?

Well, to be fair, he probably only wrote one of them.

mfaby 2009-04-10 10:41:59 AM
Setting up an organization run by ACORN - a group now under investigation by Congress for nationwide voter fraud?

Geez. When will this lie go away?

Mighty Taternuts: 3_Butt_Cheeks: Liberal butthurt is butthurt. You pick this silly non-story to get your panties in a wad this morning?

I have not even commented on the story. You commented twice once calling for the HERO TAG!!!1!! and once saying they will see a big jump in applications which won't happen for several reasons, one of the biggest being that they stop accepting applications March 1 and the second is that most of those applying like Obama.

So you can take your fail sunny side up with a side of butthurt this morning.

Awwwww....a lil jibe at Obama this morning has got you allll fired up little butthurt boy......

Go turn on CNN or watch Olbermann clips on youtube, you'll feel better. Maybe buy a few carbon credits and pass 'em around.

I went to ASU and I'm proud of this stand they are taking. Just as we don't accept basically everyone who applies and just like the fact that most of my high-school classes weren't harder than my college ones: we have almost impossibly high standards. The End.

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: Now if Notre Dame would follow this that would be great!

/No he has not been in Office long enough to get any awards!
//And he is for abortion and its a So called Pro life Catholic College...so that is not a good thing to do.

I assume you complained when the Jesuit university Boston College gave a pro-choice Condi Rice an honorary degree? Oh, you didn't? Plenty of "conservatives" were on their soapbox to attack the protesters to her visit though.

blackminded: Is this the right wing circle jerk thread for today? OK good, I'm running low on talking points.

/whips out notepad

Pretty much. Others used for circle jerking as of late:

"Obama uses a teleprompter, what kind of idiot needs one? What? Other presidents used teleprompters? Oh, umm... *waves arms wildly* BARNEY PELOSI DODD ACORN!!1"
"Obama gave the Queen a new iPod and bowed to King Abdullah! I'm OUTRAGED!"
"North Dakota and Kentucky are Obama's Katrina and Rita!"

mfaby: Can you name any that gave him a honorary degree within six months of his taking office? This is a serious question, not a troll.

Yale did. Not sure about anyone else.

Cubicle Jockey: Did the same pro-lifers at Notre Dame have a problem when Reagan and Bush Sr. gave commencement speeches? The two earlier presidents were not-opposed to the death penalty. It would be hyporcritical to oppose Obama and not the other two.

I can't say that far back, but I know there were protests for the Bush speech when he did it in 01.

3_Butt_Cheeks: Awwwww....a lil jibe at Obama this morning has got you allll fired up little butthurt boy......

How is this a jibe at Obama? I am pretty sure he will be able to sleep at night without an honorary degree from ASU.

From Spamdog's list. Here are the ten previous people to receive honorary degrees from ASU:

Lawrence Douglas Wilder May 13, 2004
-First Black Governor of Virginia

Peterson Zah May 12, 2005
-Prominent Native American Leader

Blake Edwards Sep. 23, 2005
-Actor

Lord John Browne of Madingley Dec. 15, 2005
-Former CEO of British Petroleum

The Right Honourable Kim Campbell Dec. 15, 2005
-Former Canadian Prime Minister

Wu Qidi May 11, 2006
-Education Vice Minister, China

Frank H.T. Rhodes May 11, 2006
-Former President of Cornell University

J. Craig Venter May 10, 2007
-Sequencer of The Human Genome

Leland Hartwell Dec. 13, 2007
-Nobel Prize winner for Medicine

James J. Duderstadt May 14, 2008
-President Emeritus, University of Michigan

yeah...ASU is FAR more prestigious than Columbia or Harvard.