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kpete

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Sun May 8, 2016, 01:12 PM May 2016

‘You Are Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare’: John Kerry’s Inspiring Message To Graduates



Kerry addressed the students as they prepare to go out into the world and truly begin their adult lives, finding the careers, the friends and the partners that will form the focus of their lives. They will be America’s next doctors, educators, carers, scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and yes, lawmakers. Standing before the, Kerry described what he saw as the basic failure of the Trump campaign – why the politics of hate and division cannot win the whole of America today, and certainly not tomorrow.


“You are the most diverse class in Northeastern’s history.” he said. “In other words, you are Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.”


The room broke out into massive applause, the students signaling clearly that they have not been dragged into the gutter politics fomented by the Trump campaign.


The Secretary of State hit out at Donald Trump’s bizarre and basic plans on immigration and foreign policy too – the sum total of which seem to be a) insult people and b) build a wall.

“There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others,” Kerry reminded the GOP candidate.


Kerry also had something to say about exactly what makes America great, and that it involves more than simply repeating it over and over again while parading about in front of a flag.

“We’re not exceptional because we say we are.” he said, adding. “Greatness isn’t about bragging, it’s about doing! It’s about never being satisfied, it’s about testing the limits of what we can achieve together.”




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