Reading this makes me mad! Okay so Richie didn't graduate form college- big deal. Not everyone in the world goes to college. Richie was invited to be there and from the speech I read it sounded like he was a great speaker. Richie was there telling people that they can accomplish anything if they want it bad enough- he is living proof that great things can happen to you if you work hard. He was inspiring these college graduates to do just that.

Okay so he mentioned he is married to Heather. So what he is- he was saying that to show again he was just a kid from Jersey and look who he ended up marrying a beautiful movie star. That fit right in with the theme of the speech that he has had a lot of great things happen to him and that great things will be happening to the graduates too. Just wondering if this news reporter is a bit jealous?

And for the record when i graduated from college we had some local council person be our guest speaker who i am sure had a fancy degree form some fancy college and ya know what- believe me i would have much rather had Richie even if he is a college dropout- that certaintly doesn't matter to me. He is a great humanitarian and I am sure his speech was more enetrtaining than the guy i had at mine. Damn, i knew i should have gone to school in New Jersey!