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.
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