Posted on 07/10/2008 6:53:59 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Afew weeks ago, John McCain made a little joke at his wife's expense. Referring to her alma mater -- Cindy McCain is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she was a cheerleader and sorority sister -- he called it "USC, the University of Spoiled Children."
It's not an original joke, of course -- it's been around for ages, possibly even as long as John McCain himself -- but it said a lot about the man who wants to be president.
...Visit any college classroom -- at the University of Spoiled Children, Harvard, Yale, Puget Sound, doesn't matter -- and you'll see row upon row of attractive young people tapping away on their MacBook Pros, secretly IMing each other and pretending to listen. And why listen? The class is almost assuredly pass/fail, and the requirements -- two short papers, one essay-based exam -- are pain- stakingly designed to move them in a sprightly, untroubled fashion to graduation, where they'll cheer themselves hoarse ("We did it!! We achieved our dreams!!") and pretend not to notice their threadbare, vitamin-deficient, nearly broke parents sweltering in the hot sun. "Is it over?" their parents will ask themselves. "Can we maybe stop buying food in the day-old section?"
So I say, go on the attack. Point out their expensive computers -- which they use for music and TV watching -- and their expensive blue jeans and their entitled, disease-free lives. Point out how creepily physically fit they are. Point it all out to the voters and turn this election from being about left versus right, or Democrat versus Republican, into a winnable one: young versus old.
John McCain -- tough guy, war hero, straight-talker -- is poised to give America's college kids what they richly deserve: an electoral swirly.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Hey, I actually agree with McCain.
McCain probably alienated himself from every USC alumni.
Not smart, John.
Oh good grief! What a bunch of twaddle! I dread the next 4 months, with the Lamestream Media hyperventilating over every remark McCain makes.
“McCain probably alienated himself from every USC alumni.
Not smart, John.”
But gained thousands more votes from people who are tired of bratty college kids w an over inflated sense of self importance.
Well done. I can’t stand USC.
George Will has a good article on beer and civilization today in the New York Post. So your a blonde cheerleader and
Daddy owns a beer distributorship, I think I’m in heaven!
“...and pretend not to notice their threadbare, vitamin-deficient, nearly broke parents sweltering in the hot sun. ...”
Saw this and thought the threadbare, vitamin-deficient part referred to their education.
Our universities should be sued for false advertising. My father (possessing an 11th grade education from Louisiana - that was the top grade then) could out history and out think any of them. Of course, back then, he went to a Catholic High school, and was taught by Jesuits. Far cry from the jokes that our colleges have become.
Probably more than half dont even know who John McCain is to begin with. Their all wrapped up in what beer blast is going on tonight.or who thay can get laid with tonight, and what easy useless course they can sign up for to stay in school and out of the work a day world.
Actually, the article (editorial) is sympathetic to McCain. The author, Rob Long, is a writer for National Review.
I’m with you...not only the media...but Freepers....
If that is true, then it just means all the USC alumni, no matter what their age, still have not matured and learned a damn thing except the PC crap.
If they were really smart they'd just go out and find themselves a mega - rich spouse.
Not everyone is college material at 18. Some need to really want to have to go to school first. Get rid of grants. Limit loans and the serious ones will do what kids from previous generations have done....pay for it.
Ah, yes, I'm painfully reminded of my George McGovern college days when I just knew a sheepskin and adventure with liberal elitism and win the prize of cradle-to-grave government care to guarantee a life of bliss. And then I came face to face with a cold dose of reality when the cruel world of a wolf at the door and a family to feed meant that work free from government interference indeed is the only key toward a future. USC's spoiled brats will find so, too, and some will even rue the fact that they are even here in wishing their parents had used "trojans" instead of creating them.
Like John S. McCain did. He dumped his first wife for a richer model.
John McCain employing class warfare, that’s rich. (no pun intended)
I thought that was a liberal tactic.
It’s a play for the UCLA vote across town!
The pithiest observation in the piece was that so many students mostly use their expensive Macs to download music. Sadly, too true. That’s a pretty accurate image of today’s college student . . . iPod in the pocket, cell phone in one hand and lowfat latte in the other.
“... and turn this election from being about left versus right, or Democrat versus Republican, into a winnable one: young versus old.”
Yay! College kids don’t vote anyway. I say we bring back the draft, to start with - and no educational deferments this time. Subsidize face lifts and erectile dysfunction treatments, and pay for it with high, new taxes on MP3 players and video games!
I first heard the moniker University of Spoiled Children from a USC alum; he earned his BS and MS from the school... I don’t think this quip - and it was said in jest - will cost him a single vote. Those that will use this as a reason not to vote for McCain weren’t going to vote for him anyway.
Hey I’ll have you know I use a Sony Viao and a Zune. I wouldn’t touch an ipod with a ten foot pole. And I take my coffee blacker than my metal.
I work at a U myself and cannot disagree with you. The WWII gen was a great one in many ways, but half of it raised spoiled, misguided children, who, in turn, have raised even more spoiled and misguided children of their own.
Hey I’ll have you know I use a Sony Viao and a Zune. I wouldn’t touch an ipod with a ten foot pole. And I take my coffee blacker than my metal.Oh, well, then - everthing's all right, innit?
I still do that in law school classrooms with a forced curve designed to eliminate grade inflation. And yet somehow still have top 10% grades.
I wouldn't mind humming a few bars with them
USC, pay the fee, get a degree; both kids of my boss have degrees from SC, they are dumb as rocks.
Like he has a chance in California.
And what's wrong with John McCain or any other politician poking fun at his or his spouse's priveleged background? It beats the hypocrisy of the Columbia/Harvard/Princeton-educated Obamas campaigning like they are a struggling middle-class family.
USMC = Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children
That’s probably true for me because I was given a choice by an LA judge: go to jail or enlist.
I enlisted.
Interesting to note that it is USC that has a strong Republican connection. John Wayne (and his children) went there. Ronald Reagan was a USC fan. Gerald Ford took time to speak there. Also, a large number of students there are on some form of scholarship or grant.
If you are a good football player in highschool USC pays the best and grades don’t count!
Even Ronald Reagan made a crack about USC (and at MY expense) during his re-election campaign in 1984.
I was a young Republican volunteer at Reagan’s re-election kickoff rally at Mile Square Park in Orange County, CA. Reagan showed up in the VIP tent before the rally and shook hands with all the volunteers... as he was shaking my hand, he asked me where I went to college, and I told him “USC - Class of ‘82”.
He then went on to say the following: “USC! Wow! One of my campaign advisors went to USC, remarkable fellow... and we’ve become very close friends. He’s an incredible man... his parents kicked him out at 16, he was living on the streets as a teenager, got in a little trouble with the law, got involved with some drugs and ended up in a half-way house... from there, he picked himself up, studied hard and worked his way into USC... he got his degree and has been involved in the GOP ever since... he’s quite the success story! He came to me a few weeks ago and asked me for some advice... it seems that he was about to propose to his girlfriend, and he asked me, “Mr. President, do you think I should tell my fiance about my lurid past?” I thought for a second and replied, “Why, yes, Butch... you should definitely tell your fiance that you went to USC”.
I sure miss that man.
I think you got it right...at least for the modern colleges...
my last bad experience with a college student, was asking
one of them what 77 divided by 4 was...needed a calculator....I actually
had to teach the student how to do the calculation without
paper and pencil. This was a graduate student going to a graduate professional
school. I won’t mention the school, but John McCain has
just made a comment(albeit, an old one) about it.
Actually USC isn’t a bad school at all, they have lots of
good programs going on, I just kinda wonder about the modern
students (All of them from all schools just kinda seem
a bit disconnected from knowledge,wisdom, and life skills)
“John McCain — tough guy, war hero, straight-talker — is poised to give America’s college kids what they richly deserve: an electoral swirly.”
Too bad he wants to turn 20 million illegal aliens into the same kind by giving them free education and pushing out the US citizen kids who are working their butts off to pay for their own education.
Jesse Jackson (D) talks about cutting off Obama's manhood for selling out and THIS is the day LATe's daily talking point?
LOL
You can always pack up and leave, troll.
Oh-My-God!
Nah — USC is detested by many — and even some alumni
good-naturedly accept the criticisms as they suspect much of the naysaying is rooted in jealousy.
No big deal here — and McCain’s comments will certainly please UCLA fans. Might even win him some votes here in CA.
With that old cliche? Like the writer of this piece, I'm sure they've all heard it before.
I think Ann Coulter's idea to start the grassroots movement Get Drunk and Vote for McCain is the best shot McCain has at capturing any of the college vote.
The odds are long but I'm an optimist. If I can just get this Get Drunk and Vote 4 McCain thing to take off....people in California do like to party.
I went to USC and worked my ass off to get good grades. We didn’t have computers or high-speed internet or IM or music downloads. I studied hard and got good grades. McCain trying to be a smartass, just sounding like a dumbass.
Yep. Earned my Masters there. Great school. Lotsa spoiled children, too. It's a very common joke there.
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