The BEST Commencement Speeches Of 2010 (VIDEO)

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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Whose graduation speech did you like best?

Alec Baldwin

Katie Couric

John McCain

Meryl Streep

Gov. Bob McDonnell

Barack Obama

Al Roker

Nancy Pelosi

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Comments

[MaddMonkey]

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

[Pippen]

11:58 AM on 05/24/2010

Where's my Rachel Maddow !!!!!!

[Manu Corvalan]

09:42 PM on 05/23/2010

♥♥ Meryl Streep ♥♥

[andys0391]

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.

[DCvote]

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.

[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

[janha]

02:39 PM on 05/22/2010

Where was Rachel?

[Dn91]

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!

[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.

[Steve1976]

05:32 PM on 05/23/2010

"Be bold, and do good."

I would hope you would want to do well.

[kelley33]

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.

[pranksm26]

05:50 PM on 05/21/2010

check this out:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
do your research....

[MarauderF]

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.

[Merckx]

04:33 PM on 05/21/2010

Rachel Maddow? Her speech was one for the ages.

[Texas4Obama]

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!

[whizzobutter]

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.

[soundping]

03:54 PM on 05/21/2010

Anderson Cooper's Tulane Commencement Speech was good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DrFax_GNPs

[lastep]

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

[LeftLeanWing]

03:40 PM on 05/21/2010

Al Roker ?

[Scentedflower]

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.

[lastep]

03:48 PM on 05/21/2010

he reads teleprompters eloquently

[laddieluv]

05:19 PM on 05/21/2010

.....so does everyone.

You must have a point.

Keep it to yourself. please.

[MarauderF]

02:45 PM on 05/22/2010

So do people who mock that point.

[CampCalifornia]

04:07 PM on 05/21/2010

Uh uh um um dudh er er umm um uh er without teleprompter. Hahahahahaha

[indmind07]

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.

[LeftLeanWing]

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 !

[indmind07]

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.

[CampCalifornia]

04:08 PM on 05/21/2010

Still in denial while the rest of the US wakes up huh?. Typical lib or regressive.