Posted on 07/10/2008 6:53:59 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Afew weeks ago, John McCain made a little joke at his wife's expense. Referring to her alma mater -- Cindy McCain is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she was a cheerleader and sorority sister -- he called it "USC, the University of Spoiled Children."
It's not an original joke, of course -- it's been around for ages, possibly even as long as John McCain himself -- but it said a lot about the man who wants to be president.
...Visit any college classroom -- at the University of Spoiled Children, Harvard, Yale, Puget Sound, doesn't matter -- and you'll see row upon row of attractive young people tapping away on their MacBook Pros, secretly IMing each other and pretending to listen. And why listen? The class is almost assuredly pass/fail, and the requirements -- two short papers, one essay-based exam -- are pain- stakingly designed to move them in a sprightly, untroubled fashion to graduation, where they'll cheer themselves hoarse ("We did it!! We achieved our dreams!!") and pretend not to notice their threadbare, vitamin-deficient, nearly broke parents sweltering in the hot sun. "Is it over?" their parents will ask themselves. "Can we maybe stop buying food in the day-old section?"
So I say, go on the attack. Point out their expensive computers -- which they use for music and TV watching -- and their expensive blue jeans and their entitled, disease-free lives. Point out how creepily physically fit they are. Point it all out to the voters and turn this election from being about left versus right, or Democrat versus Republican, into a winnable one: young versus old.
John McCain -- tough guy, war hero, straight-talker -- is poised to give America's college kids what they richly deserve: an electoral swirly.
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“... and turn this election from being about left versus right, or Democrat versus Republican, into a winnable one: young versus old.”
Yay! College kids don’t vote anyway. I say we bring back the draft, to start with - and no educational deferments this time. Subsidize face lifts and erectile dysfunction treatments, and pay for it with high, new taxes on MP3 players and video games!
I first heard the moniker University of Spoiled Children from a USC alum; he earned his BS and MS from the school... I don’t think this quip - and it was said in jest - will cost him a single vote. Those that will use this as a reason not to vote for McCain weren’t going to vote for him anyway.
Hey I’ll have you know I use a Sony Viao and a Zune. I wouldn’t touch an ipod with a ten foot pole. And I take my coffee blacker than my metal.
I work at a U myself and cannot disagree with you. The WWII gen was a great one in many ways, but half of it raised spoiled, misguided children, who, in turn, have raised even more spoiled and misguided children of their own.
Hey I’ll have you know I use a Sony Viao and a Zune. I wouldn’t touch an ipod with a ten foot pole. And I take my coffee blacker than my metal.Oh, well, then - everthing's all right, innit?
I still do that in law school classrooms with a forced curve designed to eliminate grade inflation. And yet somehow still have top 10% grades.
I wouldn't mind humming a few bars with them
USC, pay the fee, get a degree; both kids of my boss have degrees from SC, they are dumb as rocks.
Like he has a chance in California.
And what's wrong with John McCain or any other politician poking fun at his or his spouse's priveleged background? It beats the hypocrisy of the Columbia/Harvard/Princeton-educated Obamas campaigning like they are a struggling middle-class family.
USMC = Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children
That’s probably true for me because I was given a choice by an LA judge: go to jail or enlist.
I enlisted.
Interesting to note that it is USC that has a strong Republican connection. John Wayne (and his children) went there. Ronald Reagan was a USC fan. Gerald Ford took time to speak there. Also, a large number of students there are on some form of scholarship or grant.
If you are a good football player in highschool USC pays the best and grades don’t count!
Even Ronald Reagan made a crack about USC (and at MY expense) during his re-election campaign in 1984.
I was a young Republican volunteer at Reagan’s re-election kickoff rally at Mile Square Park in Orange County, CA. Reagan showed up in the VIP tent before the rally and shook hands with all the volunteers... as he was shaking my hand, he asked me where I went to college, and I told him “USC - Class of ‘82”.
He then went on to say the following: “USC! Wow! One of my campaign advisors went to USC, remarkable fellow... and we’ve become very close friends. He’s an incredible man... his parents kicked him out at 16, he was living on the streets as a teenager, got in a little trouble with the law, got involved with some drugs and ended up in a half-way house... from there, he picked himself up, studied hard and worked his way into USC... he got his degree and has been involved in the GOP ever since... he’s quite the success story! He came to me a few weeks ago and asked me for some advice... it seems that he was about to propose to his girlfriend, and he asked me, “Mr. President, do you think I should tell my fiance about my lurid past?” I thought for a second and replied, “Why, yes, Butch... you should definitely tell your fiance that you went to USC”.
I sure miss that man.
I think you got it right...at least for the modern colleges...
my last bad experience with a college student, was asking
one of them what 77 divided by 4 was...needed a calculator....I actually
had to teach the student how to do the calculation without
paper and pencil. This was a graduate student going to a graduate professional
school. I won’t mention the school, but John McCain has
just made a comment(albeit, an old one) about it.
Actually USC isn’t a bad school at all, they have lots of
good programs going on, I just kinda wonder about the modern
students (All of them from all schools just kinda seem
a bit disconnected from knowledge,wisdom, and life skills)
“John McCain — tough guy, war hero, straight-talker — is poised to give America’s college kids what they richly deserve: an electoral swirly.”
Too bad he wants to turn 20 million illegal aliens into the same kind by giving them free education and pushing out the US citizen kids who are working their butts off to pay for their own education.
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