Posted on 05/18/2007 10:52:07 AM PDT by raccoonradio
GARDNER (MA) In his first commencement address of his administration, Governor Deval Patrick called for civic engagement yesterday, while delivering a broadside against Bush administration policies.
Patrick's exhortation appeared to resonate with many of the 656 students graduating from Mount Wachusett Community College and their families, who gave him a long standing ovation.
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Without naming President Bush or members of his administration, Patrick took aim at their response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, saying that in its wake, the nation has been governed by fear.
Patrick said fear "drove us to round up people of Arab descent, many of them American citizens, and to hold hundreds without cause or charge." Fear also led to the Iraq war, the Patriot Act, and "the greatest aggregation of presidential power in much of our history," he said.
Patrick also lashed out at the gun lobby for resisting restrictions on the purchase of firearms and at opponents of gay marriage.
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Not all students and parents were enamored of Patrick's speech. Michael Connor of Rindge, N.H., said he thought Patrick should have addressed the students. "He was making a political statement," Connor said. "It should have been more about the students."
Connor's daughter, Erica, who received an associate's degree in dental hygiene, said that she agreed with her father, but that she appreciated the governor's appearance.
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Opportunistic, naive idiot....
Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Deval Patrick...
Wherever he’s watching this from, John Adams must be wondering why the hell he bothered fighting for independence from tyranny.
Patrick is an arrogant crook who is an absolute nightmare of a governor. My condolences to the peopel of Massachusetts who face 3 or so very long years.
When did that roundup of Arab-Americans happen? I don’t recall anything about it. Is my memory bad, or was Patrick just making it up?
Yeah, all that rampant profiling, and the camps in Nebraska holding the Arab-American Nisei for the duration of the war ... that's stuff's gotta stop, huh?
There is nothing different from this guy and Huey Long.
What a Nasshole.
I hear people say this crap and wonder what they would do in the face of REAL fear. Like your neighbors spying on you and your friends start disappearing, one by one.
He’s even worse than our boy Governor.
And that’s saying something.
That clown looks like treasonous bastard to me!
Patrick said fear “drove us to round up people of Arab descent, many of them American citizens, and to hold hundreds without cause or charge.” Fear also led to the Iraq war,......spoken like a true European far left socialist pile of steaming dog crap!
Fear of radical leftists who want more terrorists to attack us, and to turn this country into a leftist paradise where all money and property is seized from those who have it and given to the collectivity to waste.
I know who I'll side with..
I thought the nation was governed by stupid Democrats, e.g. Deval Patrick.
When?
No wonder the liar surrounds himself with DNC felons and eloquent rapists.
It's curtains for Massachusetts from this Cadillac-governor.
Yes Deval those were Swedish grandmothers who got on the planes at Logan Airport. How’s the Driving Range the HACKS set up for themselves in the Big Dig?
I live near some neighborhoods where there are substantial numbers of Muslim immigrants. To my knowledge, the only people “rounded up” were those who had overstayed their visas, often by years.
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