Madison Graduates Show The New Faces Of Our Future

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 05-31-04 | Mary Laney

[MamaLucci]

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This is where the amazing thing happened. When Whitford said, ''President George Bush was at Concordia [University] yesterday,'' the students erupted with applause and cheers. They were cheering for George W. Bush! The University of Wisconsin -- where Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, was born; the place known to be so far left it's off the charts -- had students cheering for a Republican president!

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[Watery Tart]

Unbelievable! I read about the ceremony in the Wisconsin State Journal, and the article made me yell my usual, "It's only a TV show! Martin Sheen is not the President!"

The paper didn't mention any of the cheers for our REAL President! There is hope for the future!

[MozartLover]

".......these students were history majors......"

My son is a history major at UW-MAD (except that right now he's at Fort Sam Houston learning how to be a combat medic for the WI National Guard). He has told me that the student body is nowhere near as liberal as the faculty.

This was VERY enjoyable reading. Thank you!

[MamaLucci]

My son is a history major at UW-MAD (except that right now he's at Fort Sam Houston learning how to be a combat medic for the WI National Guard).

You must be very proud.

This was VERY enjoyable reading. Thank you!

My pleasure. The Sun-Times lets a good one get past their editor every now and again. :)

[Mo1]

These students really "get it", regardless of liberal indoctrination. It gives me hope for the future

It sure does

[Amelia]

Cheers for the class of 2004!

[Northern Yankee]

Thanks for the ping.

I continue to believe that Bush will win in a landslide.

This only confirms what I am seeing around me.

While at a Memorial dedication yesterday in a very liberal town, a Sgt. who had just got back from Iraq, gave a very moving speech that honored those who had died during their time in the service. He reminded people how the sacrifice of the soldiers in Iraq had liberated an entire Country. This statement received a huge applause from the throng gathered there.

[Redleg Duke]

I don't know what I liked best, the shove, the "get your sorry ass out of here" thumb gesture, or the way GW just brushed passed him as his Dad turned his back on him and everyone else ignored him!

[PigRigger]

"These students were history majors, and they have been studying and reading and watching just what has been happening in the world. They told me that this is a war of civilizations, and that those who are attacking the president for fighting the war in Iraq would have attacked the president had he not gone into Iraq. They pointed out that the critics of the president attacked him for taking too long to go after Afghanistan . . . and yet attacked him for going to war against Iraq too soon."

After the last few weeks of relentless hammering of our President, it is good to see that some of the next generation understand what we are up against and the hypocrisy of those on the left who attack the WOT.

We all have a lot hanging in the balance; our children have the most to win or lose. Hopefully, they understand this point. After reading the article, I believe they may.

History Majors in particular understand this all to well; human history has been victim to the evil we see today time and time again. The past has so much to teach us if we would only listen.

[MamaLucci]

.....our children have the most to win or lose.

Yes, and those that are old enough to understand all of the ramifications of failure in Iraq, know that failure is not an option. I am proud, and also dismayed, that many young people have a more mature and realistic outlook on the WOT than do most adult liberals.

[neverdem]

I hope you heard Rush today. He read all or most of the article you posted. BTTT

[RetiredArmy]

They've received a liberal education and learned to think for themselves.

Well, if they got a liberal education, they certainly did not learn to think for THEMSELVES! They only learned to think as a herd. So, they must not have got a liberal education if they are THINKING!!!

[CasearianDaoist]

Hey, I own a yellow dog. Zell Miller owns two.

[Recovering_Democrat]

These students ...told me that this is a war of civilizations, and that those who are attacking the president for fighting the war in Iraq would have attacked the president had he not gone into Iraq...that the critics of the president attacked him for taking too long to go after Afghanistan . . . and yet attacked him for going to war against Iraq too soon.

Man, oh man. I haven't seen it put like this in print, but it is dead solid perfect.

Someone else needs to put this out there for public consumption. What a perfectly succinct way of describing the current situation.

[danhammondsr]

Having grown up just outside Madison, I learned to refer to the city as "Berkley - East."

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I graduated from UW Law 10 years ago - and my time there was unpleasant due to the oppressive political correctness then in place. There was an entire generation of faculty that was retiring in a wave in the mid 90's - and perhaps that helped. It's probably just a new (and surprising) generation of students - and I say "right on!" to that.

I was an undergrad in Madison from '75-'79, graduate student in '84-'85 and in law student (part-time) 88-94. Through the entire time, as a conservative - I felt as though I had no voice. The epitome of this was a seminar in Immigration Law - taught by Ian Haney Lopez - now at Berkeley, I believe. In the introductory seminar - he went around the room and asked what immigration policy should be and with what justification. 9 of the 10 students argues for open borders - as did Lopez. I raised terrorism and communicable disease/public health as justification for some sort of border policy that worked - and I was ridiculed (this was Spring '94). That was typical. Madison was a great place - in many ways - the exception in my years (1975-1995) there was the throwback thinking - it was as if the late 60's were a high watermark in politics  that the community was always reaching back to. Not just the University - but the community seemed very small minded. Sigh.

But - if this incident is evidence of real change - I am heartened.

[geopyg]

"for those of us in International Relations through Zoology."

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[oblomov]

Wow...Madison is the former US Headquarters of Radio Havana.

I went there in the late 80s, and everywhere there were "communal bikes": bikes that had been "expropriated" and were now being used by students at will. Peaople would use them to ride from one bar to another, or back to the dorms, and leave them for the next person. This idiocy works fine until a bike needs maintenance- then it's allowed to just fall apart like everything does under socialism.

[radiohead]

At MADISON? That's like Ann Arbor's twin.

Ann Arbor's evil twin, you mean. I've always thought Madison was much worse than A2, which was too bad, because the town seemed nice enough, it's just the people who were crazy.

With this news, I might actually look for a job at Madison when I finish my doctorate.

[afraidfortherepublic]

One thing not mentioned in this article is that Bradley Whitford challenged the President to "prove" that he'd written his Concordia speech himself. I take that to mean that the left is nervous because the President's Concordia speech was the finest I have ever heard him deliver -- and it was VERY WELL RECEIVED at Concordia U with lengthy standing Os.

I thought that was a really dumb remark on Whitford's part, and I amagine that it did not go over too well. Perhaps waht is what the students meant when they said they didn't like some of the things he said.

[MamaLucci]

I hope you heard Rush today. He read all or most of the article you posted. BTTT

Thanks for telling me.....I DID listen to Rush today, but missed his reading of this article!