Biden booed at commencement address

CBS Radio News ^ | 5/29/04 | CBS Radio News

[onyx]

I've said it in FR mail.
I'll say it here:
Nite dck2 and wd.
I am outta here.

WKB & bourbon:
you two were missed,
but not forgotten.

[dixiechick2000]

Hormones? Don't get me started!

Bless your heart, bourbon...
and Mrs. bourbon's, too.
It's not easy being hormonal,
or living with someone who is...

[dixiechick2000]

"WKB & bourbon:
you two were missed,
but not forgotten."


Double dittos!
Nite, onyx and wardaddy.
It's been great to see you both.
Hopefully, the next time we meet,
WKB and bourbon can be here with us.

[Edit35]

I think we have a 30-30-30 nation.

Where's the other 10 percent? Probably too stoned to even think.

[doug from upland]

From the archives:

MIDI - RAG DOLL

Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…it's just as silly as can be
Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…I laugh when he is on TV

Joe Biden had his doctor put plugs in his head
He should have superglued a critter that was dead

He has…doll hair…he has…doll hair
It's a bad transplant…worse than Traficant

Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…it's just as silly as can be

Joe lost his hair about the time he lost his mind
This liberal puke can kiss my rosy red behind

He has…doll hair…he has…doll hair
It's a bad transplant…worse than Traficant

Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…it's just as silly as can be
Doll-oll-oll-oll hair…I laugh when he is on TV

Hey, Joe, will you put on a hat…my ribs are hurting, can't you see?

[Jimmy Valentine]

WOW!! If he was in Newark, he was at University of Delaware.

This is his stronghold, and he must be shocked to the top of his doll hair over this.

Regards,

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Proper role? What is our proper role?

[leprechaun9]

Biden should not be making such statements - it is above the pay grade of a plagarizer!

[WKB]

It's nice to be love and wanted.
You could do it when the recipients are present
though it would make it seem a little more genuine.
But as always, I'll take what I can get when I can get it.
Yall have a great Sunday.

[JesseHousman]

..Americans aren't half as dumb as the press think they are ...

Then why do they keep re-electing scum like this?

[JENINMO]

AMEN! Our daughter (when at the University of Missouri-Columbia) received a grade of "C" from her "Western Civilization" teacher. She was required to write about an article from "Mother Jones" and evidently her "take" on the article was not what the teacher wanted to hear. The teacher actually WROTE on her essay "This is not good thinking".

I told both of my kids, play the game, and get out with your sheepskin, and then you can think on your own. Our colleges and universities are a sham. One could get a better education if they just read books on their own, and not have to be brainwashed by a bunch of hippies.

The books they're required to read are drivel. I went to a Lutheran private college my first year, and the Religion teacher was a Catholic priest, and he told us that all the stories in the Bible were myths.

[isthisnickcool]

where did you hear this story? is it for real? (i cannot stand hitlery, but haven't heard it before)

I know guys who put themselves in front of other people if those people are threatened. I wish THOSE guys could write about their experiences. It's common knowledge that Hillary treats Bill pretty much like she treated this Secret Service agent. She was known amongst the various details for calling Clinton all sorts of names while screaming at him.

There is a part of Hillary Clinton that nobody has ever seen in public. That part is mean and nasty and would make people cringe.

[katana]

Amidst all the talk about how "angry" the left is few seem to realize how royally pissed off we are. The recent spate of socialists being shouted down at commencement addresses (of all places) is a symptom of this mood. As we are more likely to vote and are better armed with truth and the facts (among other things), the left and their allies in the press ignore this at their peril.

[BlueHen]

My daughter graduated from the University of Delaware yesterday. Too bad Joe Biden showed up, but it was not a surprise. I taught at the University of Delaware for almost 20 years, and they usually invite some left-winger to give the keynote address. I have endured graduation speeches from Ellen Goodman and Louis J. Freeh, just to name two. You can trace contributions at the Federal Election Commission website, http://www.fec.gov/ but it is tedious to trace contributions back and forth. For example, David P. Roselle, president of the University of Delaware, gave to the Wilmington Trust Political Action Committee, which donated to Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.).

The Wilmington News-Journal, a Gannett newspaper and tireless cheerleader for Joe Biden, reports the story at http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/05/30bidentellsgrads.html Though the headline could be more descriptive, the story is surprisingly accurate -- though you have to read into the story to find out how inappropriate the speech was for a happy time for graduates and their families.

Biden was cheered as well as booed, but it was by the parents in the stands. My experience, both sitting in the stands as a parent, and having been a faculty marshal sitting on the field with graduating seniors, and having had them for class, is that student attention span is about eight minutes (the length of time between commercials). Speakers must be funny, anecdotal and brief. The departments of the university graduate separately, so every graduate can hear his or her name announced, and walk across the stage. The speakers there are better, because they are professors who are used to speaking to groups live, not politicians posturing for sound bites.

My daughter graduated from the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. As the students were announced, their comments were also read. Usually that was the graduate's intentions and plans, such as "will attend Temple law school in the fall," "will enter police academy in July," etc. With perhaps a thousand people in the Field House, the loudest applause was for a young woman who announced that she had just been commissioned in the Army, and had a three-year educational delay to attend law school before joining JAG. For other graduates, including those being commissioned, there were applause not booes.

One poster wrote that if Biden is booed in Delaware he is finished. Would that it were true! The last numbers I have show only about 30% of students are in-state.

[zook]

Biden booing reported again Sunday morning by CBS radio.

[bourbon]

I might add that we should expect to catch bourbon here at night, like long about 2:00AM. Isn't his baby Elizabeth sooooooooo darling?

Actually, I'm finding myself to be surprisingly adept at sleeping despite the gurgling, cooing, weeping, and screaming.

[onyx]

Why you dog, you! :)

[onyx]

TO: dixiechick2000; onyx; wardaddy; bourbon
It's nice to be love and wanted.
You could do it when the recipients are present
though it would make it seem a little more genuine.





Speaking only for myself,
you might try staying up
with us some Saturday night.
In the meantime, quit picking,
you were missed and not forgotten.

[Gabz]

Congratulations to your daughter!!!!!

I've had computer problems today and was only just able to read the NJ story on Biden's speaking yesterday. I'm glad to hear that for a change the NJ actually reported something accurately from someone who witnessed the event.

I can't tell you how many times over the years I have attended an event and then read the NJ article about it the next morning and wondered if the reporter and I were at the same event.........including back when I was a reprter.

[McGavin999]

I think the country is waking up to the fact that they have allowed others to pick their reps for far too long. I got a feeling a lot of people are going to vote this year who haven't voted in years.

The base has been picking the winners and it looks like the people don't like what has been done while they were too busy to go to the polls.