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McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC [drawing a smattering of boos and hisses....]
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Posted on 05/19/2006 5:18:22 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 34 minutes ago

Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

The historically liberal university has been roiled in controversy in recent weeks over the selection of the Republican and likely 2008 presidential candidate to speak to its 2,700 graduates and thousands of family, friends and faculty.

The Madison Square Garden crowd cheered loudly as Jean Sarah Rohe said McCain "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded."

Rohe, one of two distinguished seniors invited by the university's deans to address the graduates, spoke before McCain did but noted that he had promised to deliver the same speech he gave at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University last weekend and Columbia University on Tuesday.

"He will tell us we are young and too naive to have valid opinions," Rohe said. "I am young and though I don't possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous. And I know that despite all the havoc that my country has wrought overseas in my name, Osama bin Laden still has not been found, nor have those weapons of mass destruction."

McCain later thanked Rohe for her "Cliff's notes" version of his speech.

Sticking to the remarks he made in earlier speeches, McCain reaffirmed his support for the Iraq war but urged debate and dissent. And he repeated the theme that drew Rohe's derision.

"When I was a young man, I was quite infatuated with self-expression, and rightly so because,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccain2008; mcinsane; mediadarling; pseudocollege; pseudoconservative; rino; sistasouljah
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To: Sub-Driver; Clemenza; rmlew; neverdem; firebrand; Do not dub me shapka broham
Being booed by the idiots at the New School should be a mark of honor for anyone. Even Cuny's Graduate Center is more conservative and that's saying a lot. The New School has probably graduated more Communists and Marxists than Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.



21 posted on 05/19/2006 5:35:16 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: georgia2006
Lets see, the right doesn't like him and the left doesn't like him yet he thinks he can be POTUS.

McInsanity.

22 posted on 05/19/2006 5:35:24 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Sub-Driver

And these are his biggest supporters.


23 posted on 05/19/2006 5:35:35 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Well stated!:)


24 posted on 05/19/2006 5:36:33 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Sub-Driver

25 posted on 05/19/2006 5:57:26 PM PDT by heights
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To: Recovering_Democrat

McC should run for president. Of Mexico.


26 posted on 05/19/2006 6:01:40 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: georgia2006

He can come to Northern Ohio and get a similar hostile reception.I know a lot of people here and not one of them think he's worth a damn.


27 posted on 05/19/2006 6:14:15 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
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To: Sub-Driver
man some of you freepers are so arroagant and ignorant and "just as smart" as the coached moronette who made this comment...

"He will tell us we are young and too naive to have valid opinions," Rohe said. "I am young and though I don't possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous. And I know that despite all the havoc that my country has wrought overseas in my name, Osama bin Laden still has not been found, nor have those weapons of mass destruction."

y'all need to go back and read the other tidbits that strike this article out...

....preemptive war...what an utterly clueless "never been there" completely scripted, guided moron...duh....ette....whatever... This idiot has probably never used the word preemptive in their life, yet now, fresh at some commencement ceremony, they are some sort of expert.

video ???...please ?????????????

.......just fall right into their hands..............
28 posted on 05/19/2006 6:16:19 PM PDT by The Unknown Nobody (You can't hit stupid with a brick and build a house...)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
McLame...gettin' booed. I love it.

I think radical leftist Presidential hopefuls like Hillary Clinton and John McCain are working behind the scenes to arrange for these left-wing booing protesters to show up and make them appear not-so-liberal.

29 posted on 05/19/2006 6:21:13 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: Sub-Driver

This is what happens when you're a fence sitter (as opposed to a fence builder).

You are rejected by both sides.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving jerk.


30 posted on 05/19/2006 6:24:28 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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To: Sub-Driver

McCain would get the same reaction or worse from conservatives. I hate his guts.


31 posted on 05/19/2006 6:41:48 PM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: Sub-Driver
Just like Rush said the other day.

McCain is no longer a useful idiot for the MSM and Democrats.

McCain should just retire, he's up for reelection in 2008 anyway.

32 posted on 05/19/2006 6:44:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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To: Sub-Driver
No wonder this man hates the first amendment. Ha! Ha! Sweet sweet justice.
33 posted on 05/19/2006 6:51:19 PM PDT by Xenophon450 (Behead those who say Islam is violent)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I'm absolutely no fan of John McCain...but I am sick of rude, obnoxious, elitist brats who think they know it all. I include in that group the disgustingly smug group of students at Boston College who have behaved so boorishly against Condi Rice.


34 posted on 05/19/2006 6:51:55 PM PDT by OkeyDokeyOkie
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Same here. Don't even know why he's bothering; too old, too inform, and he will putter out once he gets past the RINO-friendly primary states.


35 posted on 05/19/2006 6:55:09 PM PDT by Gorobei
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How can you people sit here and condone this?

McCain is a featured speaker to agreed to come and speak at a Graduation Ceremony. Whether you agree with him or not, that was NOT the forum for dissent, and these little misfits severely needed a mother to tug them by the ear, lead them to their room, and put them in their place at some point in their pathetics lives.

This is not appropriate conduct. At all.

Where on earth has any sense of civility gone on this planet?

If you want to boo McCain, do it in the proper forum. Making an #$# of yourself at a college graduation is not the place.


36 posted on 05/19/2006 6:55:40 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: rocksblues
Was the left side of his face pulsing?

No, he took some of his wife's drugs.

37 posted on 05/19/2006 7:01:37 PM PDT by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: Sub-Driver

In 2000 McCain was a novelty and a lot of people bought the "Straight Talk" schtick. By now most have witnessed the McCain kook factor and he repels all but the most deluded supporters. A non-factor. (It was the strawberries, I tell ya, the strawberries.)


38 posted on 05/19/2006 7:03:27 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Not til 2010 do we get to punch the Libertarian box again.


39 posted on 05/19/2006 7:05:35 PM PDT by Luke21 (Democrats hate us, our heritage, and our religion. They think we belong in cages. Never forget.)
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To: CheyennePress
I'm not with you on that. While I was fortunate enough to have a graduation speaker both scintillating and for the most part holding similar political views (Tom Clancy), I would have been enraged if the little star chamber making the selection had chosen Ted Kennedy.

I agree that it is not polite to deride someone who has accepted an invitation, but you must realize these selections are not made by the entire graduating class. Personally, I think the little ignorant leftists are fools, but they should bleat all they want. Today they're graduates, tomorrow they're unemployed imbeciles.

40 posted on 05/19/2006 7:13:25 PM PDT by Mr. Bird
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