Posted on 05/19/2006 2:35:59 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
...a beautiful prose poem to America, national service, and civil debate (congrats Mark Salter, as ever), and gets derided for it, of course.
“I supported the war in Iraq.” Boos. Explains the war was not for cheap oil. A little heckling: “You're full of it!” Says he thought the “country's interest and values demanded” the war. Someone shouts: “Wrongly!” Someone else: “More poetry!” (A reference to lines from Yeats McCain had quoted earlier.)
He says “whether [the war] was necessary or not...we all should shed a tear” for those who have sacrificed in it. Some hissing.
Shouting.
He eventually enters into a Bushian rift: “All people share the desire to be free”; “human rights are above the state and beyond history”; we are “insisting that all people have the right to be free.” Someone shouts: “We're graduating, not voting!” Lots of derisive shouts and laughter and applause.
As McCain continues with a personal story, a student shouts: “It's about my life, not yours.” McCain:
“When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest value...” Groans from the students. “It's not about you!” “Sit down!”
McCain circles back around to the theme of civility: “We are not enemies, we are compatriots...” Boos, shouts. McCain: It “should remain an argument among friends”; we should be “respectful of the goodness in each other.” Literally one person applauds.
McCain goes on to tell his story about his reconciliation with an opponent of the Vietnam War: “I had a friend once...” Groans, boos.
He talks about forgiving his friend who dissented from the war. Hostile rumblings from the students.
He says after the reconciliation, he and his friend “worked together for shared ideals.” A shout: “We don't share your ideals!” As McCain closes there is a mix of boos and applause, and a few people even stand to clap.
These kids are in for a BIG shock when they discover it's NOT all about them.
I find McCain impossible, but if my son or daughter treated him like that I would be furious with them.
Wow! Talk about hitting McCain below the belt!
That's not a knock on McCain, BTW . . . I'd feel the same way about any leech who's spent more than one term inside the Beltway.
disrespectful little snots...Bring back the Draft ! for males and females , and for those that have to be drafted , not volunteers , they start off with the lowliest possible jobs
the military requires.
"Fats Kennedy"
I like to call him "Keg Tennedy"
Why is it the liberal/leftists think that the suppression of everybody else's right to speak -- is their freedom of speech?
That's totalitarianism (authoritarianism) no matter what they want to call it. That's always been the danger from the left -- that moral righteousness (correctness) that makes them think they have a right to think and speak for everybody else. The greatest proponents of this, are the editors of your local newspapers and the other media demagogues.
Same dude. The Keg got his Fats!
No, he's not. As one of the sponsors of the infamous McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, McCain has long been an advocate of restricting free speech by the people he serves rules.
As such, he isn't entitled to sh!t.
"We"? Must mean REAL conservatives, not traitors like McCain. Remember what CFR was called before our leaders in Washington became afraid to attach their name to such a blatant abuse of the the Constitution? It was called the "McCain-Feingold" act, I believe.
There's something about the phrase "Congress shall make no law...." that McCain either ignores or just doesn't believe applies to him and Russ Feingold.
Btw, I fault both houses, the president, and the Supreme court for that one. Our entire system of government, all threee brances, failed us with CFR.
"As one of the sponsors of the infamous McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, McCain has long been an advocate of restricting free speech by the people he serves rules."
Let us not forget the kennedy-mcain bill. Anyone who wouldn't mind being in the same room as keg tennedy can't be too right in the head. (pun intended)
Yeah. It was founded as, and still is, a Marxist institution. Apparently McVain went here to balance his visit to Jerry Falwell's right-wing version of this indoctrination camp.
During WWII it had a "University in Exile" where academics from Fascist countries were made welcome. Academic exiles from Communist paradises, of course, were not.
A typical New School graduate student can bore you to tears with Marx, Hegel, Foucault and Derrida, but has never read Locke, Smith, De Tocqueville, or the Federalist Papers, cannot list three of the ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights, and knows nine ways to roll a joint but cannot start a lawnmower, bait a fishook, or hang a picture on the wall. They're essentially unemployable.
Most of the New School types are too hip to take SATs (not required), but if they did they'd be 350 to 400 points below their "peers" at Harvard and Yale, slightly below those schools' Affirmative Action admissions. Most of them come from parents (or single mothers) that work in government or academia.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Thanks for correcting me on that. It probably costs about the same as NYU, anyway!
Thank you SO much for that information.
I would jump to say that you are disrespectful, but I see some others already have.
Perhaps McCain learned a little about how appeasing Marxists is rewarded.
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