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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Maybe it was some kids from what I misread as the "New School of Dharma" making the noise (that's actually the "Drama" school).
You've got a point, Okie.
That's surprising. I'd have thought McClown was in his element there.
This just proves how classless Liberals are. How tacky to boo, hiss and ridicule the speaker at your graduation. Why is it I've never heard of conservatives acting this way? I'm definitely NOT a McCain fan but I would never behave in such a childish manner if he were my speaker.
"Osama bin Laden still has not been found."
Do you think the war will just end because OBL is gone?
"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 (which is why Hitler should still be in power I guess). And I know that despite all the havoc that my country has wrought overseas in my name, (freeing enslaved people, giving Muslim women equal rights, getting rid of despots and dangerous regimes, killing terrorists, converting Libya) Osama bin Laden still has not been found,(neither has Hitler) nor have those weapons of mass destruction." (thats because Saddam used every drop of mustard gas on the Kurds and was too damn stupid to figure out how to make insecticide bombs, but the rest of population is smart enough to create IED's! )
And I disappointed my parents for not being a collage grad! I thank you God on how much money I save not to become ignorant!
Thanks.
I have known a number of people in recent years who have chosen New School for its writing-intensive curriculum, small class sizes and Socratic seminar teaching method who were not liberal in the least. Environments like these are a great place for young conservatives to enter the belly of the beast and show liberals, via thoughtful discussion (for which there are many opportunities when a typical course has 10 students), the error of their ways. ;-)
I was thinking something like that, but realized that if Osama Bin Laden is ever found in this country, it'll probably be in a design class at Parsons!
Meaning he knows nothing except the talking points that his teachers have fed him. He is free to hunt down Bin Laden all by his lonesome, but I suggest he look at a map first. The area is as vast as the Rockies and is full of hostiles as fierce as comanches and a hundred times as numerous.
Nuts is right.
And Republicans like Frist, Graham, Warner and co. are pitter-pattering right along under his leadership.
We've got to deport the RINOs when their election cycle comes around.
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