Loserosity and a good education
If you go to this website and read the comments on President Obama’s planned speech to the kids of America you might laugh. I did. You can also read the President’s planned speech. These are some of my favorite parts…
…at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
…you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/obama-speech-to-schoolchi_n_278763.html
An example of some of the comments…
But I’m sorry he is still the “other” guy. I would oppose anything he says. (what makes him an “other”? his blackness or his intelligence?)
Yet they lost. (right-wingers) And, inexplicably, continue to wallow in their loserosity
“Loserosity” what a great word.
I don’t want a crack head talking my kids. (I think he meant “to” my kids)
Then don’t.
Geo.Bush isn’t giving the talk, Ha
Well then put the pipe down and get into rehab ASAP. Double Ha
Tags: democracy, education, opinions, politics, president, success
