Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time

May 24, 2013 @ 1:08 am


President Barack Obama reacts to CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin as she shouts at him from the back of the auditorium during his speech about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Zoom

WASHINGTON (AP) - A day after laying out his counterterrorism vision, President Barack Obama is addressing future military leaders who could help carry it out in a speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates.

It's a tradition for presidents to speak at the commissioning ceremony for the academy in Annapolis, Md., about 30 miles from the White House. The academy says 16 presidents have addressed graduates and Obama is the sixth president to do so twice. His first address there was four years ago.

Obama spoke earlier this month to graduates at Ohio State University and Morehouse College, an all-male, historically black school in Atlanta.

On Thursday at the National Defense University, Obama defended his controversial drone strikes program and renewed his push to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility.


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  • CH wrote...
    Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013 . . . .
    January 2, 2013 12:30 pm
    King Obama will WIN again and again and again. Who cares the uniformed, lazy, stupid and UNION fools voted Obama '''bak''' into office. mapletunafish reread your post got spell check off ? Let your stupid hatred for Romney Go? No hatred of mittens because of her We Americans reelected King Obama!!!!
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  • HLC wrote...
    Things are going exactly as planned for Chief of Fools.
    January 2, 2013 1:38 pm
    Dreams From My Father.The bible of the socialist left.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    ch
    January 2, 2013 2:39 pm
    how about WE AMERICANS, the one's who did not vote for your Dear Leader, win the midterms and whoever you Left wingers run in 16 is Shellacked by a Conservative American.

    Can't wait to hear you BOO HOOING when this happens!

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  • CH wrote...
    2016 is Shellacked by a Conservative American? . . . .
    January 2, 2013 5:35 pm
    We Americans are putting Queen Hillary Rodham Clinton 2016-2024. King Obama 2008-2016. Cowboy 'W' that destroyed America as we knew it 2000-2008 after which no republican will ever have the keys to the WH. That there is the truth so help me your God.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    2014
    January 3, 2013 7:43 am
    ch!
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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    just keep raising that limit Obama
    January 5, 2013 9:09 am
    my children's children's children want to pay back what you spent for century's to come. Great job Barack! (He obviously does not know what limit and debt mean...)
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  • CH wrote...
    King Obama "will not compromise" We Americans gave the King a mandate . . . .
    January 5, 2013 10:40 am
    my children's children's children want to pay back what you spent for century's to come. Great job Barack! (He obviously does not know what limit and debt mean...)Thank God George Walker Bush did not do this !!!! Let see how this is going to work out? Republicans signed a pledge not to raise taxes. How did that work out for them. Quit wasting time House Republicans sit the blank down and shut your pie hole. The King is in charge.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    Talking up the recovery..(Recovery what Recovery)
    January 5, 2013 11:06 am
    No debt limit increase until the spending problem is addressed "enough is enough"!
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  • murr wrote...
    ACTION, Were his lips moving ??? you know what they say about that ??
    January 5, 2013 3:22 pm
    From someone that is about talking, and not doing.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    There won't be any America by 2016.
    January 5, 2013 4:24 pm
    We'll be Eastern China by then.
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