First Lady Michelle Obama will speak to graduates of the University of California, Merced, on May 16 during commencement ceremonies. Here's the breaking news story.
UC Merced students got the first lady to commit to speaking to the university's first full graduating class by waging a successful letter-writing campaign on the topic. That's very cool. Good job, Bobcats!
Our sister paper, the Merced Sun-Star, has this story about the Obama visit to UC Merced.
Student body president Yaasha Sabba said he was thrilled the event was finally confirmed, accordng to the Merced paper. "Sabba and dozens of other students at UC Merced began a "Dear Michelle" campaign on campus earlier this fall in an attempt to woo the first lady to the graduation of the university's inaugural four-year class."
Here is the video we put together for Michelle Obama from UC Merced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QURjq5Bk72c&feature=channel_page
I hope "The Presidential Garden" does not suffer due to her absence. May is an important month as anyone who has tended a garden well knows.
I wonder if she will show? Does she know where Merced is located? This is the horribe San Joaquin Valley and we want to have farming, We do not care about the Delta Smelt; and we Valley citizens actually work for a living.
Wonder if KMJ will charter a bus to transport Fresno rednecks to protest her presence with pro-life, or socialist posters..
"we Valley citizens actually work for a living." (jkeyes)
Unfortunately all too many don't and through no fault of their own. Do those who by the grace of God still work, do they ever think of those who are unemployed. The number of (involuntarily) unemployed in Fresno is socially not acceptable. I observed that the ME ME generation is not live and let live, they are live and let die. And those activiststs among them who care are politically maligned. More often than not by not so charming country folk. I lived in Clovis for over 50 years, I saw the stuff on the farm vehicles east of the City. I remember how every other square foot had a billboard "Impeach Earl Warren" one of the finest Republicans of the last century.