That's quite silly, but oh well.
Another interesting detail found later in the story is that Obama is slated to give another commencement speech at Arizona State University, but the school is refusing to give him an honorary degree because, according to the ASU spokesperson, Obama does not have a large enough body of work in his current field for the university to recognize with the conferral of a degree!
The presidency of the United States is a tough beat!
So how many honorary degrees should George W. Bush be given then, if being president is good enough?