Posted on 06/14/2007 8:18:02 AM PDT by XR7
Every politician since the founding of this country has run as 'the candidate who will go to DC and clean out the corrupt, incompetent machine politicians'.
Yeah, well, I can understand why kids waiting in the rain for their diplomas might get a little cranky at a stem-winding politician dislocating his shoulder by patting himself and his party on the back. I’da booed the stupid sumbitch too.
All Dick; no nuts.
I will be sending a letter to the President of the (”my”) University in the next few days asking that they tell the commencement speakers that they cannot politicize their speech. You would think that the speaker would have to submit a draft of the speech before giving it. I went to the 2004 graduation - August Wilson, a pure leftist, gave the same kind of speech, insinuating that we were having our rights taken away by President Bush and the War on Terror. Almost booed and almost walked out. I will tell the President of UW that if that ever happens again, I will boo, and I will walk out. His contact information:
MARK A. EMMERT; +1 206 543-5010; Box 351230
PRESIDENT, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
301 GERBERDING HALL
FAX: +1 206 616-1784
emmert@u.washington.edu
Look on the bright side, the grads will always remember their commencement speech. ;^)
Sheesh, can’t liberals ever be classy? I remember one of the commencement speakers at my alma mater was Howard Cosell. He was big leftist, but he gave a great inspirational speech. Although he said “John Hopkins” instead of “Johns”.
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