Obama to tell Michigan Class of 2010 to shape America’s destiny, not its partisan squabbles
By Mark S. Smith, APSaturday, May 1, 2010
Obama to grads: Seek challenges, not party fights
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has some advice for the class of 2010: Don’t get caught up in the partisan trench warfare that often consumes Washington.
He says the graduates should use their talents instead to help the country confront its biggest challenges.
Obama’s comments on the imperatives of citizenship come in a speech he’s to give Saturday at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
At the same time, 45 miles away, Sarah Palin is set to denounce the president as a big-government Democrat whose free-spending ways will bankrupt the country.
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