McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC

[ProSense]

McCain Finds Unfriendly Audience in NYC

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 37 minutes ago

NEW YORK - Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) received a cantankerous reception Friday at the New School's commencement, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised protest signs and a student speaker mocked him as he sat silently on stage.

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The Madison Square Garden crowd cheered loudly as Jean Sarah Rohe said McCain "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded."

Rohe, one of two distinguished seniors invited by the university's deans to address the graduates, spoke before McCain did but noted that he had promised to deliver the same speech he gave at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University last weekend and Columbia University on Tuesday.

"He will tell us we are young and too naive to have valid opinions," Rohe said. "I am young and though I don't possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous. And I know that despite all the havoc that my country has wrought overseas in my name, Osama bin Laden still has not been found, nor have those weapons of mass destruction."

more...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060519/ap_on_go_co/mccain_new_school_commencement

[MadMaddie]

1. Who is this grad...(she) sounds like she has a good head

on her shoulders....

Good because McCain is not welcome...but what did we expect he is after all a dyed in the wool Republican Whore....who let the GOP smear his family and then turned around and hugged the * traitor bastard like they were best friends!!

[monarch]

3. What makes you think that Jean Sarah is a man? n/t

[MadMaddie]

6. Oops...Good Catch ...I am exhausted tonight...

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Good for them! McCain is a power whore.

[otohara]

4. Bravo Grads

I watched the McLaughlin Group tonight and it didn't sound like he got a rounding applause at Liberty either. That place is huge!

[biscotti]

5. Big Thank You

Graduates and Faculty

[lyonn]

7. Ah ha! people are finally waking up to this phony

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. It is officially getting ugly

As well it should.

These fuckers should be shamed in public, period. It's right and proper to deride the contmptible, wherever they may show their faces and preach their usual bullshit.

[ProSense]

9. Video at this link

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/19/mccain.booed/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[xchrom]

10. kickety, kick, kick.

[Comicstripper]

11. I'm going to the New School next year!

Class of 2006.

[Terran1212]

14. My sister's going in a year after

She works for homeladn security now but deferred her admission to a year past next. She's a liberal dem who likes mccain though, although she doesn't agree with the war or his anti-gay stuff.

[CarolNYC]

12. account from someone who attended....

"As he approached the lectern, scattered groups stood and turned their backs to him. More signs appeared, including one that read, “Our Commencement is not your platform.”

Surprising to me, McCain’s voice seemed timid and uneasy. His tone was flat. The spacing of phrases that might bring applause -- seemed off. He droned on and on with little expression. He stuck to the script, bearing under the weight of the catcalls, hisses, and open laughter."

more.... http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/6144

catcalls, hisses and open laughter...heheh

[annabanana]

13. I'm going to rec. Yahoo's story so more people see it.. . . n/t

[Arugula Latte]

15. I'm so sick of condescending pricks like McCain.

We knew this corrupt administration was LYING well BEFORE the slaughter of the innocent Iraqis began. So SHUT THE FUCK UP, John McCain. We were RIGHT and you were WRONG. :grr:

Kudos to the New School students! :toast:

[liberaliraqvet26]

16. I don't like or trust McCain but heckling is counterproductive....

it makes people look like extremists who are trying to stop dissenting voices. Not appropriate for a college graduation.