Obama tells Graduating Class Don't point fingers Don't make excuses Don't pass the buck

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Don't point fingers. Don't make excuses. Don't pass the buck.

That was the advice President Obama gave to a graduating high school class in Michigan Monday night -- advice that sent off an irony alert among Republicans who accuse the president of having "spent his tenure" doing exactly that.

Obama offered his guidance during the commencement speech at Kalamazoo Central High School.

"Don't make excuses. Take responsibility not just for your successes, but for your failures as well," he told the graduates. "The truth is, no matter how hard you work, you won't necessarily ace every class or succeed in every job. There will be times when you screw up, when you hurt the people you love, when you stray from your most deeply held values.

"And when that happens, it's the easiest thing in the world to start looking around for someone to blame. Your professor was too hard, your boss was a jerk, the coach was playing favorites, your friend just didn't understand. We see it every day out in Washington, with folks calling each other names and making all sorts of accusations on TV."

He told the students that "pointing fingers" and "blaming parents" and everyone else in their lives is not the road to follow.

Senate Republicans reacted quickly to the speech, sending out a "best-of" list of instances in which Obama was "looking around for someone to blame." The quotes showed Obama using Bush as a scapegoat for everything from the deficit to America's image abroad.

Obama over the past 17 months has selectively blamed the Bush administration for the big problems he now faces.

One of the president's favorite rhetorical devices is the figurative "mop" he uses to clean up what he says were the mistakes of his predecessor.

"I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made. That's what I signed up to do," he said at a Democratic fundraiser last October.

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JMC Ministries Response

So I guess Mr. Obama is telling the future of America do as I say, not as I do right?

Since day one of Obama being in office he has pointed fingers and blamed the Bush administration for everything that has happened since he has been in office. As if Bush was the one forcing him to sign the stimulus bill, or the new Government mandated Health Care bill. I'm sorry but Bush is not holding a gun at Obama's head forcing him to make the decisions and spending billion and billions of money that WE don't have!

No one forced Obama to run for President he made that choice on his own Because he wanted "Change" well he certainly made alot of changes and George Bush has not had a hand in any of them. So Mr. President Start taking your own advice that you gave so freely to this Graduating class. Grow up, be a man and start taking responsibility for your actions!