[KansasGirl]

Hey, I actually agree with McCain.

[TomGuy]

McCain probably alienated himself from every USC alumni.

Not smart, John.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Oh good grief! What a bunch of twaddle! I dread the next 4 months, with the Lamestream Media hyperventilating over every remark McCain makes.

[kms61]

Well done. I can’t stand USC.

[Da Coyote]

“...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.

[Lijahsbubbe]

"USC, the University of Spoiled Children."

If they were really smart they'd just go out and find themselves a mega - rich spouse.

[CindyDawg]

Do that many parents still pay tution? If they have a kid playing at learning while they foot the bill then shame on them.

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.

[meandog]

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?"

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.

[PGR88]

It’s a play for the UCLA vote across town!

[chickadee]

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.

[tvdog12345]

“... 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!

[Perdogg]

I thought they were called "Song Girls" not Cheerleaders. The guys were the cheerleaders. Oh well.

[Arguendo]

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

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.

[SF Republican]

USC, pay the fee, get a degree; both kids of my boss have degrees from SC, they are dumb as rocks.

[Dems_R_Losers]

There are a lot more UCLA alumni than USC. They're the ones that coined the phrase "University of Spoiled Children." I once attended a NCAA basketball regional tournament, in which USC was playing in the first game and UCLA in the second. Every time the USC band played its fight song, the UCLA band and fans stood up and waved dollar bills at them. It was hilarious!

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.

[Ben Reyes]

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.

[Nachum]

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.

[Toki]

Hey I love my Mac in college, so I must be spoiled right according to this guy (and others I'm sure). Even though I hate IM and Facebook in all shopping (give me a headache galore), actually use my notebook to take notes, (though I can be known to cruise the internet [blogs] freshman year. Learned my lesson usually, unless reviewing something computer related [which case I'm usually on the same level as the teacher].) Even if my trendin' clothes come from all the greatest places such as Salvation army, TJ Maxx, Target and Forever 21 (cheap, some even American made clothing, and Christian owned). Even though I worked and sacrificed even getting a good grade on my stuff to provide for myself (or tried.. I failed freshman year with only getting 5.50 an hour and killing my GPA and losing scholarships. My parents then told me I work or I go to school, I choose school because I know I would have sunk then). Even though my mom says that I don't even spend enough money (you still don't need money?)

/hope you got that was sarcasm

Anyway I the point I would like to say that we are not all spoiled (though I can tell you there are some who are) And if I am (cause I only paid for half my Mac with my money), I try to live as within my means as possible (which means no money, or little for small jobs so I buy nothing except the cheapest of cheap. I actually plan to furnish my first apartment with Free furniture from Craiglist). My parents provide, but that's because my Dad made a promise to himself that his kids would never have to pay for college and work their way through like he did (As much as he liked to hide it he did horrible, he now has his master and a law degree with 4.0). I am thankful to my dad for that every day now for this, and I try to show it (especially since I'm going to a private school, a cheap one with scholarships, but still a lot). And alot of my friends are in the same boat. Scholarships, parents, financial loans, government, school even, kids still struggle with money and just to get through. Even if they own a Mac.

But just to say how to out of touch this guy is with college students, the writer himself is out of style. They don't give swirlies to anyone anymore. They get trashed instead on Facebook/Myspace. Get in the know.

/sadly not sarcasm

[dalereed]

If you are a good football player in highschool USC pays the best and grades don’t count!

[AuntB]

“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.