Obama may get ASU honor at commencement after all

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ArizonaCentral.com

Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University, tells POLITICO that the school is reconsidering its widely mocked plans not to give President Barack Obama an honorary degree when he speaks at commencement on May 13 and will “honor him in every way possible.”

“There was no intended slight,” Crow said by telephone from his office in Tempe. “We had not yet talked about what honors we might give him as our commencement speaker, and we still have a month to work all that out. We don’t want anyone to think we do not recognize what he has achieved and what he means in America.”

A formal decision has not been made, but it was clear from Crow's comments that the university is headed in that direction. ASU risked becoming a national punch line if it did not quickly retreat from its policy against conferring honorary degrees on a sitting politician.

Past recipients of ASU honorary degrees included an aloe-vera magnate, the director of "Victor Victoria," a Chinese official, a Canadian politician, and lots of donors and fundraisers.

Four days after addressing ASU, Obama will give the commencement address at Notre Dame, which is conferring an honorary degree despite some local criticism of the choice of speaker.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/president/articles/2009/04/10/20090410obama0410asu.html

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If I was Obama I'd tell you where you can stick your honorary!

[Drunken Irishman]

1. As we've seen in the past, Obama will probably take it in stride.

[Zenlitened]

2. How long until the ironically-named Mr. Crow...

... announces that he has "decided" to "spend more time with his family"?

What a complete and utter idiot. Goes out of his way to create a staggeringly awful public relations disaster... for no reason at all. Nothing to be gained, everything to be lost.

Wow. :wow:

Trustees, major donors... they're probably drawing straws to see who gets to tear into him first.

Seriously, wow. This is legendary.

[santamargarita]

3. I hope he leaves it in the Limo...

:grr:

[No Elephants]

4. Gee, who coulda seen this one coming? I'm sure Obama will value this

honorary degree from Arizone State University as much as he values:

His real degree from Columbia University;

His election as President of the Harvard Law Review (first African American in the school's history to hold that honor;

His degree, with honors, from Harvard Law School;

His 12 years teaching law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the nation,;

His best selling book;

His other best selling book;

His accomplishments as a community organizer, including registering an amazing number of voters in Chicago, changing politics in that town, probably forever;

His 8 years in the Illinois Senate;

His four years in the United States Senate;

His "amazing race" for the Presidency of the United States;

His election to the Presidency of the United States, only the 43rd man since 1789 to hold that honor and the first African American ever so to do.

His speeches alone more than qualify him for an honorary degree from any institution in the nation, let alone Arizona State.

This is what he gets for appointing Napolitano head of HHS, knowing a Republican would succeed her.

[rainbow4321]

6. His 2008 Grammy Award for the Best Spoken Word Album

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS109482+15-Feb-2008+PRN20080215

[Karenina]

5. The school can NEVER erase the stain on its name.

WHAT were they THINKING? :freak: