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The BEST Commencement Speeches Of 2010 (VIDEO)

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First Posted: 05/21/10 12:57 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:35 PM ET

It's hard to say whose commencement speech soared the highest this year. So we'll let you decide -- enjoy this mash-up of notable speeches and let us know who hit the most right notes.

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It's hard to say whose commencement speech soared the highest this year. So we'll let you decide -- enjoy this mash-up of notable speeches and let us know who hit the most right notes. WATCH: ...
It's hard to say whose commencement speech soared the highest this year. So we'll let you decide -- enjoy this mash-up of notable speeches and let us know who hit the most right notes. WATCH: ...
 
 
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02:05 PM on 05/24/2010
Stuart Weiss, president of Studio City and a 1980 Mansfield University graduate, was the speaker at the school's Commencement. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTYn7KNPQ4
11:58 AM on 05/24/2010
Where's my Rachel Maddow !!!!!!
09:42 PM on 05/23/2010
♥♥ Meryl Streep ♥♥
07:18 PM on 05/23/2010
A) Michelle Obama should have been included. I witnessed her speech and it was absolutely beautiful, inspiring, and eloquent.
B) Meryl Streep always seems so genuine and heartfelt when she speaks.
08:54 PM on 05/22/2010
I just graduated Michigan and let me tell you it was awesome seeing Pres. Obama deliver that speech from the 6th row. Very important message.
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HerzogD
11:48 AM on 05/25/2010
Would be nice to see him live up to his own words one of these days. - Disenchanged Liberal
02:39 PM on 05/22/2010
Where was Rachel?
09:07 PM on 05/21/2010
I find it bizarre that First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at the George Washington University did not make the list. Her speech was incredibly moving, and applicable to far more people in the United States and around the world, than to just the class of 2010. Her commencement speech exceeding her husbands in every aspect. It was an incredible challenge and call to the youth/young adults of the world to get active, and create the world we want to live in. In addition to that, the University completed the Obama Service challenge to do 100,000 hours of community service in exchange for her speaking at the 2010 commencement-- a sentiment echoed in the First Lady's speech. To put it simply, her call to the class of 2010 not just of GW but all around the world, "Be bold, and do good". No commencement speaker made such a poignant and moving point in their speeches, not even her husband the President himself!
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Ugonna
03:00 PM on 05/22/2010
it seems to me your point was more about comparing her to her husband, than about saying simply that she deserved a spot on the list. Not everyone gets remembered in these things. Chill out. You seem far too angry about it.
05:32 PM on 05/23/2010
"Be bold, and do good."

I would hope you would want to do well.
05:15 PM on 05/21/2010
Obama's a liar, has broken every promise he made. Disgusting. I never thought it possible for USA to have a president worse than Bush. Fooled me. Obama bows to the corporations, big oil, health ins., Wall St., Israel, while the rest of us burn.
05:50 PM on 05/21/2010
check this out:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
do your research....
02:44 PM on 05/22/2010
It doesn't seem like it's Obama that is bowing to Wall Street. I'm curious how he has done a worse job than Bush though. He's responded to events on the ground, and worked his hardest to push for new legislation. He hasn't taken his presidency off, or made worse our economy.
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04:33 PM on 05/21/2010
Rachel Maddow? Her speech was one for the ages.
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Texas4Obama
Obama 2012
04:07 PM on 05/21/2010
LOL. Thank goodness Becks' Liberty University speech didn't make the list ;)
That was a HORRIBLE speech with him crying several times!
07:40 PM on 05/24/2010
Only Liberty would have been partisan-hack enough to invite Beck. Joke of a school. Remember that it was morons from this school who helped completely muck up the DOJ ad turn it into a political strongarm agency.
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soundping
America: Love it or leave it !
03:54 PM on 05/21/2010
Anderson Cooper's Tulane Commencement Speech was good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DrFax_GNPs
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03:47 PM on 05/21/2010
I'm sure that Obama's at Michigan was this sites favorite since he asked people to read Huff
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RightKickFoot
03:40 PM on 05/21/2010
Al Roker ?
03:40 PM on 05/21/2010
for heavens sake, don't compare others with Obama. Obama is an eloquent President of USA.
If you want, compare with other presidents.
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03:48 PM on 05/21/2010
he reads teleprompters eloquently
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laddieluv
Dogs are angels with paws.
05:19 PM on 05/21/2010
.....so does everyone.

You must have a point.

Keep it to yourself. please.
02:45 PM on 05/22/2010
So do people who mock that point.
04:07 PM on 05/21/2010
Uh uh um um dudh er er umm um uh er without teleprompter. Hahahahahaha
03:30 PM on 05/21/2010
Obama's? Seriously? The one where he whined about how information (that is not state approved) is just a distraction and should be ignored? Come on Hp, even you guys can do better than this.
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RightKickFoot
03:40 PM on 05/21/2010
Oh Please....

Stop repeat the rightWing self serving derivative Talking Point.....

We heard what he said... and knew exactly how he meant it. without the Right Wing Interpretive filter....

So Obama?
YES REALLY !
03:56 PM on 05/21/2010
I heard what he said and I know how he meant it.

Keep on apoligizing and living in denial.
04:08 PM on 05/21/2010
Still in denial while the rest of the US wakes up huh?. Typical lib or regressive.