McCain's scheduled speeches draw protests

[ProSense]

McCain's scheduled speeches draw protests

By Beth Fouhy, Associated Press Writer | May 9, 2006

NEW YORK --Republican Sen. John McCain, tapped to deliver commencement speeches at two major New York universities, is getting the equivalent of a Bronx cheer from activists on both campuses who oppose his conservative views and support for the Iraq war.

The potential 2008 presidential candidate is scheduled to address Columbia College's "Class Day" on May 16 and will speak at the commencement ceremonies of the New School three days later.

Known for his maverick streak, McCain has been burnishing his conservative credentials in recent months as he readies a likely White House run. As part of that effort, he'll deliver the commencement address at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University on Saturday -- an opportunity he described Tuesday as "an honor."

All of this, in turn, has served to roil liberal activists who populate many of New York's campuses.

At the New School, a proudly left-leaning university of some 8,000 students now headed by former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., organizers announced Tuesday that they had collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition asking Kerrey to disinvite the Arizona Republican from the May 19 commencement ceremony.

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[Sequoia]

1. "Known for his maverick streak......"?

What? The way he slobbers and hugs Bush is no maverick streak, it's a....what's that word I'm looking for?

[Mz Pip]

2. Obscenity??

What does McCain think? That liberal students haven't noticed his kissing up to the RW?

McCain occasionally says something interesting, but in the end he always roots for Bush. No matter what.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[pretzel4gore]

3. sycophant...aka sukkhole

mccain is a vital link in what an honest Oz labour leader once referred to as 'a conga line of suckholes'
(can you see mccain, and limbah-humbug, and bay buchanan, and lynn cheney, and anus coultergeist, and brite hum, and woof blitzer, and tony snowjob, fred barnes, tony blankley, michael isikoff, susan schmidt, and a thousand other like tweety, john gibson, paula zahn, mrs andrea greenspan, friedman, woodward, scheiffer, tucker carlson etc all wiggling their well greased asses as they cha cha cha?)
:puke:

[Disturbed]

4. McLame is done. He did himself in.

The $50 an hr. lettuce picking remark put him over the edge. If he has any functioning grey cells left he would retire and never appear in public again.

[Supersedeas]

9. yep, exactly

[charlyvi]

5. Whore? Like this.....

[ComerPerro]

6. Great pic

[Sequoia]

8. Be my, be my baby.

Too funny!

[LaPera]

7. Don't you just hate the fucking AP....