I was there! He was definitely riding Obama’s coattails! The joke here is the year after this speech, Bill Clinton was Knox’s commencement speaker. So on the C

I was there! He was definitely riding Obama’s coattails! The joke here is the year after this speech, Bill Clinton was Knox’s commencement speaker. So on the Colbert Report, he says Bill was riding his coattails. But then he acknowledges that the year before he spoke (my graduating class) was Barack Obama. Well no, he didn’t “steal his thunder,” he claims, he rightfully returned it right back to him. (Sure thing Stephen…)