If I spent somewhere on the order of $100,000 to $120,000 to attend NYU, I'd be justifiably p!ssed off if some mediocre @sshole from Washington was invited to give the commencement address at my graduation.
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.
It's not NYU. It's the New School. Far below NYU on the university hierarchy.