The Return of Grace - Obama turns controversy into jokes, lesson at commencement - CNN.com

Obama turns controversy into jokes, lesson at commencement - CNN.com:  

"TEMPE, Arizona (CNN) -- President Obama on Wednesday turned a flap over his commencement speech at Arizona State University into a joke -- then a lesson about never being satisfied with one's accomplishments." - CNN

Thank God for the return of grace and good humor to the Presidency.  Remember the brouhaha over ASU not offering an honorary degree to president Obama when he spoke at ASU's commencement?   The University said it was refusing the honorary degree to Obama, because "his accomplishments were still before him."    

WTF?   

Being President of the Harvard Law Review, sponsoring the most significant ethics reform bill in Illinois history,  raising a family, and being the first African American President at age 47 aren't significant accomplishments? 

Oh right!  ASU is the state university of the same state that refused to recognize the Dr. King Holiday until nearly Ten years after the rest of the country was celebrating it. 

Today President Obama delivered a wry, funny and graceful speech to the graduates, gently parrying the slight and turning it into a moving "teachable moment" about their "best accomplishments being before them." 

I was proud to see the grace and humor with which the President handled the speech.

Refreshing, as when was the last time the words graceful and the Presidency commingled?