McCain Gets Cantankerous Reception at Commencement

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/19cnd-mccain.html?hp&ex=1148097600&en=4d53eef0f9a47a00&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Senator John McCain of Arizona received a cantankerous reception during his appearance at the New School commencement Friday, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised signs in protest and a distinguished student speaker pointedly mocked him as he sat silently nearby.

The historically liberal university has been roiled in controversy in recent weeks over the selection of McCain, a conservative Republican and likely 2008 presidential candidate, to deliver the commencement address.

Some 1,200 students and faculty signed petitions asking the university president, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, to rescind the invitation. Petitioners said McCain's support for the Iraq war and opposition to gay rights and legal abortion do not keep with the prevailing views on campus.

Kerrey, a Democrat who served in the Senate with McCain and, like McCain, is a decorated Vietnam War veteran, addressed the controversy almost immediately after the 2,700 graduates and thousands of other parents and friends filed into Madison Square Garden for the ceremony.

"Sen. McCain, you have much to teach us," Kerrey said to a smattering of boos and hisses. He urged students to exercise the open-mindedness he said was at the heart of the university's progressive history.

[Fridays Child]

1. Pukes never have a problem barging in where they're not wanted.

That's what McCain can teach those students.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. much to teach us? about WHAT?

how to become a craven, groveling, pandering, lying, hypocrite who won't even stand up for his own WIFE and Child?

give me an fffing BREAK!


I never tire of using this, from Mr. Fish, I think

[sutz12]

9. He would have to learn something before he teaches it. nt

[Seabiscuit]

16. About bending over.

[acmavm]

3. Bob Kerrey, the guy so many misguided people thought would keep

the 9/11 inquiry on the up and up. (And I was one of them.)

Now he's pimping McCain. Oh well, not surprised anymore.

[LibDemAlways]

14. When I heard Kerrey had accepted a spot on that bogus

commision,I knew he'd sold out.

The Bush Crime Family fought an investigation and made damn sure this one was as ineffectual as possible.

Limited budget. Limited scope. Allowed chimp and cheney to "testify" together not under oath. Commission only authorized to make recommendations, which were quickly ignored and forgotten.

No one with any integrity would have had any involvement in such an obvious sham.

[acmavm]

15. Your last sentence says it all.

[adigal]

4. Bravo to the student speaker!!!

and Boos to McCain for mocking her.

"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." - Distinguished Student Speaker

[Ms. Clio]

11. that's terrific -- good for her!

"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." - Distinguished Student Speaker

[Rose Siding]

5. Go, Jean Sara!

"The senator does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded," Rohe proclaimed to loud cheers, with McCain sitting just a few feet away.

She added that she knew what McCain would be saying to the graduates since he had promised to deliver the same speech he gave at 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."
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McCain later thanked Rohe for her "Cliff's notes" version of his speech, and then, as expected, delivered remarks that were nearly identical to his earlier appearances.

:rofl:

[Disturbed]

6. McLame needs to get out his salad fork

and jam it into his ass.

[brentspeak]

7. I give McCain credit for being willing to face the criticism

He knew he'd be given a hostile reception, but still accepted Kerrey's invitation.

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. You give him too much credit. It actually works well....

for him with the GOP base that he's trying to solidify.

[sam sarrha]

8. i cant get the image of McCain Humping W's leg at the convention

with that look of after glow like he just came in his pants hugging the village idiot

what ever the man sincerely achieves his memory will be forever tainted

[AX10]

12. Bob Kerrey is an asshole for allowing McCain to speak there.

[LibDemAlways]

13. You'd think Bob Kerrey could have come up with a

speaker more in tune with the ideals of the university. I can think of a couple dozen off the top of my head. Mr. Suck Up to Chimp was a terrible choice.