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Biden speaks at Wake Forest
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2009-05-18 10:53
WINSTON-SALEM — Vice President Joe Biden today told Wake Forest graduates that history is theirs to change.
"As corny as it sounds, this really is your moment," he said. "History is yours to bend."
Biden spoke on a brisk, sunny morning to 1,500 graduates and a crowd estimated at more than 10,000. He received an honorary doctor of laws degree, Jim Morrill reports.
Unlike President Obama's commencement address at Notre Dame Sunday, Biden attracted no protesters. In his 30-minute speech, he urged the graduates to help bring fundamental changes in the world.
"You graduates give hope that we will not only survive today but thrive tomorrow," said Biden, wearing a black robe. "We're either going to fundamentally revive our economy or we’re going to fall behind."
It was Biden's third visit to North Carolina in recent weeks, a fact not lost on Republicans.
More after the jump.
Al Hunt cites Harrell in N.C. column
Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on 2008-10-13 11:40
Al Hunt says Ty Harrell is proof that North Carolina has changed.
In a column in Bloomberg News today, the Wake Forest University graduate and longtime national political observer writes that Harrell's win in a predominantly white legislative district was telling.
A microcosm of this year's presidential race was the state legislative battle in Wake County two years ago when Ty Harrell, a young black fundraiser and small businessman, upset a longtime conservative Republican in a district that is 85 percent white.
"I like to think I transcended race," says Harrell. "I think Obama is doing that, too."
In Mecklenburg and Wake counties, and increasingly other parts of this state, there are fewer Helms Republicans. That's why the presidential race in North Carolina is a tossup and why Republican Senator Elizabeth Dole is fighting for her political life. It's also why in the gubernatorial race the moderate Republican seven-term mayor of Charlotte, Patrick McCrory -- he raised taxes to fund a new light-rail transit system -- is threatening to break the Democratic hold on the statehouse.
Harrell was the first North Carolina official to endorse Obama.
Hat Tip: Rob Black
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