Posted on 05/30/2004 8:15:30 PM PDT by Utah Girl
When former Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan talked about America's "loss of credibility" this month at Pennsylvania State University, he was booed vigorously.
SUNY Oswego's president sent a letter of apology to its commencement speaker, Theodore C. Sorensen - a former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - after his criticism of President George W. Bush's handling of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 was jeered.
And a week ago at Hofstra University, novelist E.L. Doctorow criticized Bush for misleading the country to justify war with Iraq, and couldn't get through his remarks when the catcalls became too loud.
The war in Iraq has been a common theme in commencement speeches this year, mainly among those who are not in office. And their views have not always gone over well.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Political analysts agreed that anti-war speakers are getting more negative reactions these days than they were during the anti-war heyday of Vietnam. Campuses are just less political these days, Sabato said. In fact, many of the country's political activists are still the baby boomers, he said.Campuses are more political today, but that is due to the baby boomer professors.
Could be that the message is simply not well-received by today's Americans.
As for the campuses being "less political" these days, maybe it's only that they're just as political, but this time pro America and supportive of our war efforts......
No, the writers of the article are wrong, that kids are "not as political as they use to be". They are just not agreeing with the politics of their leftist grandparents!
This makes the 3rd one that I have heard boo'ed for Bush Bashing or bashing the war on Terror.
The times they are a changing,
The next generation is likely to be very conservative.
Just like Vietnam was the formative experience and the dun collored glasses that the lefty baby boomers view life through, 9/11 is going to be the formative event for the generation from middle-school though college.
There is no reason that these kids can conceive of that makes the US responsible for the terrorist assault. They are not convincable. It was incomprehensible and there will be no blame America first explanation that will convince them.
The boomers blame the US for everything. Those that represent the left will whine in their graves.
"Declaring war on terrorism was understandable, perhaps even appropriate, as a figure of speech," Soros told the university's graduating class. "But the president meant it literally and that is when things started going seriously wrong."
Yeah, we started winning!
What does Soros want from a "war on terrorism"??? Shall we gather up the pieces of the suicide bombers and pilots and hold a trial, find them guilty, and sentence them to life in prison???
Hm. Maybe people are just sick and freakin' tired of assholes who feel it's necessary to interject their political opinions into EVERYTHING they do.
Not EVERYTHING is about politics.
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