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And no, it’s not about his dog. 

People here are getting geared up for President Obama’s speech at the ASU Commencement. Granted, it pretty exciting, but the most interesting thing for me isn’t the “historical moment” but the fact there are some people who will find a way to take a big ol’ shit on anything.

Case in point:  a couple of months before the official announcement of the President’s visit, I received an email on the official ASU listserv that asked me to take a brief survey about Obama’s visit.  The focus of said “survey” was to find out how the ASU community felt about the possibility of  awarding an honorary degree to the sitting President. In his usual johnny-come-lately fashion, ASU Il Duce Michael Crow stated in a press release that while it was always the intention of the university to recognize and honor the President’s achievements, they had “not yet determined the best or most appropriate way to do so.”  In the end, ASU opted to establish a scholarship in his name — which I think is probably the what they intended to do from the beginning, since scholarship programs don’t just appear like a bad David Blane illusion.

What was telling, though, was the fact that somebody thought this question ought to have been raised in the first place.  I hate to throw words around without provocation (ok… that’s a lie) — words like bigot, racist, inbred dumb ass — and I don’t want to speculate about people’s intentions. I WOULD like to point out, however, that when President George Dubya “I’m the decider” Bush gave the Commencement Speech at Notre Dame in 2001, no one batted an eye when that paragon of academic mediocrity received an honorary degree.

Hmmmm.  I have to tell ya… it makes me leery to drink the water around here. Me thinks stupidity is more of pandemic than the swine flu.

Tags: Arizona, ASU, Commencement Speech, Historic event, Michael Crow, obama, scholarships and other cool stuff, stupid stupid stupid