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kelliekat44

(7,759 posts) Wed May 28, 2014, 04:49 PM May 2014

Did the President really shake hands with ALL the graduates? nt

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Did the President really shake hands with ALL the graduates? nt (Original Post) kelliekat44 May 2014 OP

If not he should be impeached. zappaman May 2014 #1

Benghazi! FSogol May 2014 #2

Call Darrel Issa!! nt geek tragedy May 2014 #3

What a thrill that must have been to actually shake hands with him. Rhymes With Orange May 2014 #4

More to the point, did he do some strange macho dance and make a duck face? . . . Journeyman May 2014 #5

No one would ever believe what Bush the Lesser was like without the photographic evidence Hekate May 2014 #6

That's the usual protocol when graduates are called to the stage one by one and by name... Hekate May 2014 #7

FAST AND FURIOUS!!!! ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2014 #8

zappaman

(20,627 posts)

1. If not he should be impeached.

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 04:50 PM

May 2014

NOW!

FSogol

(47,665 posts)

2. Benghazi!

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 04:56 PM

May 2014

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

3. Call Darrel Issa!! nt

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 04:57 PM

May 2014

Rhymes With Orange

(40 posts)

4. What a thrill that must have been to actually shake hands with him.

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 05:05 PM

May 2014

Lucky bastards!

Journeyman

(15,485 posts)

5. More to the point, did he do some strange macho dance and make a duck face? . . .

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 05:07 PM

May 2014

Hekate

(100,133 posts)

6. No one would ever believe what Bush the Lesser was like without the photographic evidence

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #5)

Wed May 28, 2014, 05:12 PM

May 2014

The man was absolutely classless.

Unless that graduate (or those) was a family friend, imagine having this in your scrapbook when you were looking forward to a once in a lifetime photo of a dignified handshake from the Commander in Chief.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)

7. That's the usual protocol when graduates are called to the stage one by one and by name...

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 05:18 PM

May 2014

... to receive their diploma.

The exception was my class at university where there were so many baccalaureates we were instructed to rise as one, flip our tassels from one side of the hat to the other, congratulated and told to sit again. We were handed a diploma folder on the way out and the actual one was mailed to us.

Masters' candidates were called up by name, their major given, "hood" over the head, handshake, go sit down. PhDs got the full treatment including a brief precis of their dissertation topic, and told (this was the part I absolutely loved) "Welcome to the community of scholars."

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)

8. FAST AND FURIOUS!!!!

Reply to kelliekat44 (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 05:18 PM

May 2014

acccccckkkkk!!!

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