Arizona State University denies honorary degree to Obama because he hasn’t accomplished anything
Arizona State University will not award President Barack Obama an honorary degree when he speaks at commencement 
on May 13.
The university decided against awarding Obama the degree because it is customarily awarded for “lifetime achievement,” ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeler told POLITICO.
“It’s normally awarded to someone who has been in their field for some time,” she said. “Considering that the president is at the beginning of his presidency, his body of work is just beginning.”
Obama was invited by the university to be its commencement speaker and accepted the invitation in March. But a separate six-member committee that determines the awarding of honorary degrees did not nominate him to receive such a degree.
Keeler said that while one committee invites speakers, a separate committee votes on who will receive an honorary degree. Typically, the committee that awards honorary degrees acts first, followed by the committee that invites the recipient. But in Obama’s case, he was invited without the honorary degree committee selecting him.
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This is THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING YET. MY ? IS *WHO* HAS RECEIVED HONORARY DEGREES 4RM THIS UNIVERSITY N THE PAST? LETS EXAMINE THEIR BODY OF WORK, COMPARED 2 PRESIDENT OBAMA’S, OUR 1ST AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IF ONE WOULD REVIEW, MR.OBAMA’S QUALIFICATIONS ARE EXTENSIVE. ARE THESE A BUNCH OF RACIST IGNORANT IDIOTS. IT GOES TO PROVE THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS MUST WORK *TWICE* AS HARD 2 “QUALIFY” FOR SOMETHING THAT WOULD ORDINARILY BE A NO BRAINER FOR THE DOMINANT RACE, EVEN IF HE *IS* “THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.” I AM SICKENED AND APPALLED!
Arizona State should have gotten McCain to give the speech. Obama does not need their degree, not with Ivy League credentials and degrees under his belt. As my mother used to say “they are full of their own importance.” Who needs a degree, honorary or otherwise, from that place?
well we all KNOW who lives in Arizona!! any chance the Dark Side has extended its grip into ASU? Someone needs to start up a petition to let ASU know they not soooooo important that our Prez needs their silly ol’ honorary degree. Talk about a PR nightmare for them!
Talk about the ‘audacity of hypocrisy’!!! This is the same state that didn’t want to honor the King Holiday…SMDH!!!