Biden Reportedly Booed When He Brings up Obama During ‘Imagine’ Commencement Speech
- Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:39pm by
Erica Ritz
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Vice President Joe Biden gave a speech to graduating seniors of Cypress Bay High School in Florida Monday, where he spent close to four minutes encouraging the students to “imagine” all that they would see in their lifetimes. What he probably didn’t imagine, however, was that he would get booed during the proceedings.
“That’s my simple advice to you today: Imagine,” he begins. “Imagine the progress you will see and achieve in your lifetime. Imagine the breakthroughs that are on the horizon and just beyond it…”
(Related: Biden to Students: You Are the Best Generation America Has ‘Ever, Ever, Ever Produced’)
“[Imagine] putting a roof of solar shingles [on your house] that will cost no more than today’s ordinary shingles…Imagine a world in which hunger is vanquished by crops that don’t depend on the soil, water or fertilizer, or pesticides to thrive…Imagine a world in which nations no longer depend on nuclear weapons for their defense
Watch the entire clip, via CNS News, below:
But Biden didn’t spend the entire speech focused on what he apparently considers to be an idyllic tomorrow. He also discussed President Obama at one point and, according to reports — the crowd booed.
Discussing the inauguration, Biden reportedly said: “I was being picked up by a friend, an African American friend, Barack Obama,“ and the crowd reacted with a mixture of ”boos” and applause.
However, there is video of Biden’s reaction.
Raising and waving his hand, he says: “Regardless of your politics, this is not a political comment, it’s about transition in America.”
Watch the clip, via WSVN-TV, below (relevant portion begins at 1:09):
While we can’t be certain without the entire video, Biden’s subsequent remarks indicate that at least he thought the students were rejecting the president’s politics, and not his race.
Biden summed his imaginative speech: “What we imagine today, you will build tomorrow, and when you do, it will be revolutionary not only for your generation, but for this nation.”
(H/T: CNS News and Weasel Zippers)
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:13pmImagine no Joe Biden, no Obama, too. Imagine no class warfare, no racial division, no political cronyism. What a relief I hope November will be.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:23pmImagine solar hair plugs that will cost no more than today’s ordinary hair plugs. Imagine you’ll be able to power your electric convertable with them when the top is down!
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:29pmImagine there’s no Obama,
It’s easy if you try.
No Marxist in the White House,
Or this dumb Biden guy.
Imagine all the people
Shouting out Hooray!….
Imagine there’s no Harry,
And Nancy is long gone too.
Nothing to halt our freedoms,
Or tell us what to do.
Imagine all the people
Who refuse to end up like Greece….
You may say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one.
I hope Nov 6th you’ll join us,
And tell the world THEY”RE DONE!!!
Sue Dohnim
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:31pmModern “liberalism” codified in lyrics… imagine aka avoid reality
by John Lennon…
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world
You, you may say
Report Post »I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
armyofnibiru
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:35pmgonzo;;being a bald man were can i buy these solar plugs? no more sun burn on top of my head.no more sweaty hats .imagine.lol
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:35pmImagine a system of government in which the people are actually represented and not merely fed lip service while the elected offical rob them blind of freedom,independence,and the financial means to support themselves.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:39pmImagine not always making stupid statements and comments.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:52pm@JABBER,,
I wrote a CONSERVATIVE version of that song, trying to get it pro produced.
Consider,,
Consider me and you’ou
It’s easy if you try
No net around us
Opportunity to fly
Consider we the people living for ourselves
etc..
Report Post »encinom
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:55pmImagine no GOP, no bigotry, no bible based ignorance, a place were the poor and elderly are cared for and not pushed off a cliff, a place where the rich pay their fair share of taxes.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:16pm@SUE…
Report Post »And… Lennon got his wish… being killed by a Soul-less/Insane follower!
Ray2447
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:23pmImagine there’s no Marxist/“Progressive”/Commie/Democrat shills in classrooms, or at commencement exercises – as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/7ub3dv7 Given their overwhelming infestation in the educational system it won’t be easy, but try. :-/
Report Post »Machtyn
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:25pmFortunately, I can still imagine all the things Biden discusses. But it will be impossible if the government keeps getting in the way. It seems Biden gave a pretty decent speech. Give credit where it’s due.
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:35pmYes… Imagine young man or woman …Realizing your dreams unhindered by commie democrats like me Joe Biden or Communist supported idiots like Barrack Obama ..Just Imagine …Yes just Imagine if people smartened up and voted to stop the train wreck we are heading the country into…
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:35pm@ENCINOM
IMAGINE no intellectually dishonest trolls..
so willing to lie..
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:40pmMan would we like to seen you vision come true!
Report Post »MBA
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:11pmI’m up for that!
Report Post »Jabocx
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:14pmYep!
Report Post »football lady
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:23pmThat will be a happy day.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:34pmImagine a world with no ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPOS…where the truth isn’t mangled and deformed to advance the leftist agenda. Where the elderly aren’t told by a government beaurocrat to die because they cost too much (see Obama’s Don Berwick , John Holdren and Obamacare). A place where being successful doesn’t make you a target. A place where no mobs are incited to destroy your property. No intolerance for religion.
Report Post »Sue Dohnim
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:03pmImagine if, well you have to
George Soros is registered twice on the voter search
once in Manhattan NY and one in Katonah NY
how many George Soros can there be.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:27pm@jabber
Great Post!!!
Report Post »Nehemiah6.3
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:44pmIts speech’s like this that reminds me of the eternal words, He’s dumbr n stupid”.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 6:59pmHmm plants without soil or water… nice imagination there Joe. It is so comforting to know that our leaders are completely disconnected from reality.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:35pmJabber….loved your lyrics…………
Report Post »lovenfl3
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:58pmActually Biden had one of his few moments of sanity when he said about Obama “the Presidency doesn’t lend itself to on the job training” during the debate. A rare moment of sanity for Joe.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovzRxR4PI0
pavepaws
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:32pmImagine January 2013
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:52pmImagine Afghanistan caves without wifi….thereby no ENCINOM.
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:21amImagine solar powered toilet paper that cost the same as todays toilet paper … IMAGINE
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:13pmI love ALL OF your comments and posts!
As I said to my treasonous family member—Now, you idiot, YOU BETTER HOPE THERE’S A CHANGE ON NOV 6, 2012!
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:41pmImagine when there will be no more Obama and joker Biden at the White House. That’s the best to imagine and hope and pray………….I call it No Hope, need a change.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:20pmJust Imagine… if BS was Money… and whatever you Dream became Real; Just Imagine… this is not INSANE!
Report Post »tarpon
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:11pmImagine the debt you will inherit
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:10pm“Imagine a world in which hunger is vanquished by crops that don’t depend on the soil, water or fertilizer, or pesticides to thrive…”
And what are these miracle crops? I grew up on a working farm, I’ve been a farmer, but what he describes is basically impossible. They wouldn’t be plants at that point. And if it were possible for plants to grow in the absence of soil, water, and a nutrient source, you‘d think the plants themselves would have figured it out over the billions of years they’ve existed on this planet.
Report Post »Yes, we have amazing technological advances today, but we can’t override or outshine over a billion years of evolution!
If you think about it from an alien perspective, plants are a truly crazy form of light. Imagine landing here for the first time, doing some tests, and discovering the entire planet is covered with a lifeform which eats LIGHT and craps out water and oxygen, it’s unique to earth so far.
SLOWBIDEN
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:19pmImagine getting the three minutes that it took me to watch that video back so I wouldn’t have thrown up all over my keyboard
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:28pm“and discovering the entire planet is covered with a lifeform which eats LIGHT and craps out water and oxygen, it’s unique to earth so far.” LOL that the perfect way to look at it!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:34pmI think joe is referring to soylent Green
Report Post »tzion
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:38pmWHY? Why do people let this numb skull open his mouth? Plants that don’t need water? Cacti need water in order to thrive and the only plants that doesn’t need soil would be algae or moss. Next thing he‘ll say is that we should imagine a world where people don’t need to eat or drink.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:35pm@SLOWBIDEN
Good one!
And thanks for the review, you saved me from wasting 3 minutes – not to mention lunch!!
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:41pmI think he’s talking about some kind of “government food control technology”…
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:39pmRam,
Frankenseed.
Report Post »jas0707
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:03pmImagine graduating from College and having to move back with your parents in Obama’s America.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:03pmlets ask economy what basement living is like
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:02pmObama is the racist in this scenario…not the students. They know that he and holder are racist. They know that obama is a marxist that is ruining their land. They have no future as long as this Kenyan is in the white house. We all have a right and a duty to boo obama. He is a curse.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:02pmThe dry drunk is a simpleton indeed and it’ll be fun to fire the idiot and his Marxist POS boss.
Report Post »Brentley
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:02pmIt is not imaginary, it is GOING TO HAPPEN. When JESUS CHRIST comes back and redeems those that believe and removes those that do not. The new heaven and the new earth. AHH WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY THAT WILL BE…..NO MORE TEARS NO MORE WARS….YES it REALLY IS NOT IMAGINARY. IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN!!!! Just not the way Biden and the rest of the world want it to.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:00pm“Imagine an economy that was growing, a job market with enough room for all of you to join the workforce. Imagine an annual budget with a surplus instead of a deficit. Imagine not borrowing from China and paying off the national debt. Imagine a country without idiots like me and Obama waging war on capitalism and religion!”
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:04pmTell it brother, the communists will lose today in Wisconsin and they’ll lose in November when we fire the Marxist heathen and his drunken idiot.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:11pmI can’t wait to hear that Walker won and see the weeping Marxist masses blaming everyone but themselves.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:17pmLousy Marxists/Progressives… remember, evil does not lay down quietly. If they lose they will be back and we better be ready. Remember Freddy Kruger? That is the Progressive movement…
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 7:43pmGonzo…….me too!
Report Post »jas0707
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:00pmImagine when this embarrassment and his Marxist boss are pink slipped in Nov. and America can begin to heal.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:58pmOnce again Biden demonstrates why Dan Quail looked great as a VPOTUS.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:37pmIf Biden was scrutinized by the media half as harshly as Dan Quail was, he would be retired by now.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:58pmImagine yourself, your children and grandchildren working to pay off a 24 trillion dollar debit , If we get another 4 years
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:56pmimagine life without, barry, shelly and joe. that is transition.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:55pmBooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:02pmImagine……….Joe Biden with a brain.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:34pmBiden? Brain? He has one, it just doesn’t work though.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:54pm….Imagine a world in which hunger is vanquished by crops that don’t depend on the soil, water or fertilizer, or pesticides to thrive….
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Imagine a world where BIG, tyrannical government does not exist and freedom along with God’s will triumph. Imagine a world where people are not forced to give 50% of their earnings to crony politicians, but we are free to give that money to those in REAL need of our chosing. Imagine a world where people are free to think outside of the box and innovate and invent without heavy regulations and restrained litigation. To be free to Worship God in any environment and location, to help one another without government intrusion or liberal PC-ism corrupting and creating entitled dangerous animals…yes, imagine a country like that, which it will be again. The United States of America.
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:38pmWow, I think YOU should’ve delivered the speech instead of Joe. Great words which our youth could aspire to!
Report Post »F_This
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:51pmImagine a world without you, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Unions, Van Jones, welfare, Big Government, Eric Holder, I could go on all day.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:01pmImagine buying your hair plugs at the dollar store and suffering permanent brain damage .
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:03pmLIBERTY!
c
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:51pmI’m going to miss the Oblamer Administration is for no other reason than the gaffe-a-matic will be gone with him.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:06pmDid Clinton go away? … these people can’t help themselves and the MSM feeds them even after they are “done”.
Report Post »Daniel
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:06pmSorry, but no you won’t. She will continue to blabber on after the election. Biden will become a “state’s person” and she will not have to worry about the voter’s raff. Perfect example is Carter. The fool can’t shut up no matter how stupid it sounds to the rest of the world. Sorry, but her-hind-@ss will be gaffing forever, and O’Blamer will be rambling about how great everything was when he was in office.
Report Post »Laken
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:50pmPlease share this link with others…
http://www.wnd.com/wnd_petition/petition-urging-congress-to-investigate-obamas-eligibility/
Report Post »JustMeHere_01
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:19pm@Laken
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:50pm
Please share this link with others…
http://www.wnd.com/wnd_petition/petition-urging-congress-to-investigate-obamas-eligibility/
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I’m not sure what good this would do. Congress takes up the issue and takes the hit from the fallout and then it is sent to the Senate and Harry Reid refuse to move it forward.
Nothing is going through the Senate that Harry Reid is against.
Report Post »conservativewoman
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:33pm@LAKEN
Report Post »I signed.
Inlightofthings
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:55pmDidn’t read the links at all but will only offer that NOTHING should got through the senate until they do their constitutional duty and pass a bill….nothing!
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:49pmIf he had been honest, he could have said, “If obama is re- elected, imagine a world where the U.S. is bankrupt, where unemployment is 25%, where personal freedoms are limited and religious freedom is compromised, where groups within the country are set against each other for political gain. Imagine a world where the U.S. is just another 3rd world nation and the change has resulted in little hope.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:48pmPlugs, well u have 2 admit Obama was smart in picking that 1 as VP, no 1 dare impeach Obama with plugs 2 fill those shoes , lol.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:59pmWhich is why he won’t change Biden for Billary … even Barry isn’t stupid enough to be THE heartbeat between the Clintons and the White House.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:46pmPS, has he got a “minder” or a doctor traveling with him? Seriously.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:56pmSomeone has to change his depends and wipe the drool from his pie hole.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:45pmThis is another example of “what the hell is he talking about”? How does he propose we grow things, and what planet is he “imagining”?
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:30pmJoe you have to keep imagining because we still don’t have a black man in the White House we have a Racist in the White House.
Report Post »He’s anything but a black man.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:45pmThey were booing Joe not because of mentioning Obama, it’s because he left his fly open again, and we all know he gets a chubby when he mentions Obama’s name.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:45pmImagine a liar. Imagine a liberal living in a dream world. Imagine when you’re buying first house? I did at 19.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:58pmIf Obama had a delusional half brother (on his mothers side) he would look like Dofus Joe , gasbag extraordinaire.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:43pmReminds me of a song…
Doesn’t this fellow have an original thought, must he plagerize everything?
#IMAGINE a world where Biden is no longer in elected office
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