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McCain Delivers... [McCain heckled at New School by student Moonbats]
NRO Corner ^ | 5/19/06 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 05/19/2006 2:35:59 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam

...a beautiful prose poem to America, national service, and civil debate (congrats Mark Salter, as ever), and gets derided for it, of course.

“I supported the war in Iraq.” Boos. Explains the war was not for cheap oil. A little heckling: “You're full of it!” Says he thought the “country's interest and values demanded” the war. Someone shouts: “Wrongly!” Someone else: “More poetry!” (A reference to lines from Yeats McCain had quoted earlier.)

He says “whether [the war] was necessary or not...we all should shed a tear” for those who have sacrificed in it. Some hissing.

Shouting.

He eventually enters into a Bushian rift: “All people share the desire to be free”; “human rights are above the state and beyond history”; we are “insisting that all people have the right to be free.” Someone shouts: “We're graduating, not voting!” Lots of derisive shouts and laughter and applause.

As McCain continues with a personal story, a student shouts: “It's about my life, not yours.” McCain:

“When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest value...” Groans from the students. “It's not about you!” “Sit down!”

McCain circles back around to the theme of civility: “We are not enemies, we are compatriots...” Boos, shouts. McCain: It “should remain an argument among friends”; we should be “respectful of the goodness in each other.” Literally one person applauds.

McCain goes on to tell his story about his reconciliation with an opponent of the Vietnam War: “I had a friend once...” Groans, boos.

He talks about forgiving his friend who dissented from the war. Hostile rumblings from the students.

He says after the reconciliation, he and his friend “worked together for shared ideals.” A shout: “We don't share your ideals!” As McCain closes there is a mix of boos and applause, and a few people even stand to clap.


TOPICS: Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bobkerrey; commencement; mccain; newschool; rudedems
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To: brooklin

At this point, I am sick of the RINO/Country club set as much as I am sick of the liberals, same trash, just a different stench in my book, and I would make my opinion known as well.


41 posted on 05/19/2006 4:09:55 PM PDT by RFT1
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To: Txsleuth
I think these politicians that drag out "personal stories"...turn people off.

And the worst of these is Billy Jeff Clintooon.

You can be certain that whatever tail tale he extracts from his past is a lie.

But out of common courtesy I wouldn't boo or hiss him.

42 posted on 05/19/2006 4:14:17 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: Unam Sanctam

No matter how hard you try to embrace them, McCain, they will hate you.


43 posted on 05/19/2006 4:19:03 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: RetiredArmy

Yep. Then they'll ask the rest of us to step in to fight and protect and free them, just like Clinton, who said he was too special and had too much to offer to serve as a mere soldier. Scumbag.

I say this time we wait until the enemy wipes out the fourth estate and the fifth column entirely before we start fighting back.


44 posted on 05/19/2006 4:23:18 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: SE Mom

I was thinking the same thing. Weren't their parents and grandparents in the audience? Didn't anybody have any manners? And if they hated him so much, why did they ask him to speak in the first place?


45 posted on 05/19/2006 4:28:11 PM PDT by usflagwaver
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To: Ole Okie

Thank you.....

I read a few of the posts after mine...and I thought maybe there was something wrong with me...that I thought it was rude to do that.

I can't STAND McCain, but I wouldn't boo, hiss, yell...I might not CLAP or give a standing ovation...but the rest makes us look like a punk country.


46 posted on 05/19/2006 5:20:33 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth

that I thought it was rude to do that.

It is rude and boorish.


47 posted on 05/19/2006 6:26:28 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: Unam Sanctam

Uh oh... even the NYT reported on it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/20/nyregion/20mccain.html?ex=1305777600&en=ad1f0f07982ece56&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss


48 posted on 05/20/2006 4:11:49 AM PDT by AliVeritas ("Quod Deus vult" (Urban II))
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To: Unam Sanctam

What I don't see mentioned here is that many of the hecklers were the professors, themselves. These idiots should lose their jobs. They are entitled to their opinions but not on taxpayer time!


49 posted on 05/20/2006 4:55:08 AM PDT by onevoter
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To: kjo

And they will try to group facism as being on the "right." Just like the white supremacy morons are on the "far right."

Socialist facisists.


50 posted on 05/20/2006 2:28:54 PM PDT by okiecon
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To: Melinda
heckled at New School by student Moonbats], Melinda wrote: And I would be disappointed in your behavior, as would most people of a certain civility. We have the right to disagree, and you have a right to boo and hiss, but that is still tacky behavior in my book, and I like to think it is in most freepers' as well.

Class has never been a liberal strong point, kinda like logic.

51 posted on 05/20/2006 2:30:41 PM PDT by okiecon
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To: usflagwaver

I am a current student at the New School. I was shocked and appalled by the behavior of the students and professors at Graduation. It made them look like idiots. It should be noted that Bob Kerrey basically called them cowards at the end. I am a liberal, and one of the draws of the New School for me was that it didn't strike me as a knee-jerk liberal school. I thought it was more intelligent than that, and promoted tolerance and interest in all view points. That is what I have encountered in classes, at least. Many of my classes have retired professionals as students. I have always thought a sign of good manners was respect for the elderly, and I have certainly witnessed that in the classes I took. (Unlike many of my fellow twenty-somethings outside the university.) That is why I was so suprised that the graduation was so ugly, even though I knew some students were angry about him being chosen to speak. Apparently it was an administrative decision, no students were involved.


52 posted on 05/20/2006 6:13:39 PM PDT by 22alio
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To: Unam Sanctam

Bunch of hypocrites who advocate free speech.
Students acting like a mob.
Shout at your opponents down.


53 posted on 05/21/2006 11:37:47 AM PDT by Milligan
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