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| Commencement Speaker booed for anti-Bush remarks |
| 2004-05-24 |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #8 Go Hostra parental units! Lest we at Rantburg think every University leader or faculty member lives completely in dream world, allow me one example to the contrary, however small but telling. A few weeks ago I attended Dayton University's commencement exercises to celebrate the end of my number-one son's hand in my wallet. It is the practice for the Univ. President to announce each graduate and mention any honors he or she has earned. This year he also announced, when appropriate, "Mr. John Doe has also received a commission as Ensign in the United States Navy" etc. It did my cynical heart good to hear a good part of the crowd enthusiastically applaud each of these special grads to the world of duty, honor and selflessness. |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2004-05-24 8:53:24 PM |
| #7 One of my favorite writers.... sad. Loon Lake and World Fair minor majors. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-24 7:29:15 PM |
| #6 Wrote "Ragtime", huh? Appropriate. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-05-24 4:12:45 PM |
| #5 Some Hofstra professors said Doctorow was on target in discussing the war. "I thought this was a totally appropriate place to talk about politics because that's the world our students are entering," said sociology professor Cynthia Bogard. "I only wish their parents had provided them a better role model." WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! Idiot alert! Idiot alert! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-24 2:38:54 PM |
| #4 What? Found horsepoop in the seat of his new convertable when he returned to his car? Where'd the vandals get that idea? (No, it didn't happen, but it would have been appropriate.) |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-24 12:41:53 PM |
| #3 How many times have you heard that anti war crap, even on Hannity and Combover. The guy is uninformed and he thinks he can just blow his nose and people will fall for it. The audience knew more about his subject then he did. Sadly, the only ones who knew less about the subject than the pompus ass were the students and the faculty. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-24 12:13:05 PM |
| #2 Good to know there are Americans who aren't just going to take an angry attack on the President. I'll agree that he had the right to say it, but not in that setting. He was invited to speak at a graduation. That is not a political arena. Period. Admittedly, California may be a different story . . . |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-24 11:46:49 AM |
| #1 Poor confused kids... Indoctrinated with bullshit by the "faculty" only to have their elders, who paid for this vacation from reality, boo the moron commencement speaker - undoubtedly a darling of their abusers. Ala, The Jerk, "Shit... Shinola..." |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-24 10:36:23 AM |