Saturday, May 01, 2010

Obama Gives Commencement at University of Michigan

Tonight, Obama will speak at the White House Correspondents dinner sometime after 8 pm eastern. It will be live streamed at C-Span.org. WhiteHouse.gov also has a live audio stream. Here is his full commencement speech today (transcript here):

Here is a live stream of the commencement. Obama should be speaking soon. Obama is sitting next to Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
Update: Obama used the commencement speech to talk about the preciousness of our democracy. He said the villification and over the top rhetoric in our politics --use of terms "right wing nut," "left wing nut" --blocks progress. He praised republican presidents in history who've used government effectively, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt.
He said presidents throughout history have been accused of socialism, there were even duels. We have been fighting about the size of government since the beginning of our democracy. He wraps it all up with a call to the class of 2010 to participate in democracy.