Protesters Object to McCain as New School Commencement Speaker

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McCain not popular? Awwww.....

Protesters Object to McCain as New School Commencement Speaker
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Published: May 10, 2006

Bob Kerrey, the former senator and longtime friend of Senator John McCain, said it was only logical to invite his fellow iconoclast and Vietnam veteran to be the commencement speaker at the New School, the storied bastion of liberalism of which Mr. Kerrey is president.

The New School's president, Bob Kerrey, called Senator McCain, a possible presidential candidate and fellow Vietnam vet, "one of the world's most important leaders."

Senator McCain, at an event in New York last week, will be back next week to give the commencement speech at the New School.
Graduation ceremonies need speakers, after all, and the bigger the name the better. "I think he's one of the world's most important leaders at the moment," Mr. Kerrey said in a telephone interview.

But instead of welcoming Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican who is considered a possible presidential candidate, hundreds of students and faculty members are up in arms, calling the invitation a prime example of what they see as the disconnect between Mr. Kerrey, the onetime Democratic senator from Nebraska, and the institution he leads.



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/nyregion/10protest.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Good for them. McCain is a scumbag who is in the pocket of the Bush Administration. Bob Kerrey should know better.

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1. Slippery fishlike warmonger too!

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2. I like this one protest sign...

"Pre-emptive War Is Not a New School Value."

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3. Good one!