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crooksandliars:
Many of you are aware of Jean Sarah Rohe's graduation speech which she changed
after learning that John McCain's would be following hers at The New School.
She then wrote an article on the
Huffington Post to explain her rationale behind her remarks. This led to
McCain's staffer Mark Salter, to write a scathing article to answer her, in
which he called her
an idiot. Rohe then responded the
following day saying: I'm sad to see that Mr. Salter intentionally
misinterpreted
my writing, presumably to hurt my feelings and frighten me into silence.
Jean joined Keith Olbermann to discuss what transpired.
Rohe: ...the fact that we were graduating, this was our graduation, that this was our big day. It was much more of a stump speech for Senator McCain and I felt that that was completely out of place and, of course I had the privilege of knowing what the Senator was going to say before he said it so I was prepared for that.
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| The news lately, is quite
depressing but every once in the while there is a story with a glimmer
of hope. Now I am not talking about the FAKE hope that Bush will try to
espouse, like calling the forming of Iraq's new government a
WATERSHED, "the formation of a
unity government in Iraq marks a watershed for the greater Middle East."
Shortly after, I saw this spouting of words and spit from boy George's lips, I tuned into PBS' News Hour With Jim Lehrer. There, right on my TV screen, were several Middle Eastern scholars begging to defer, here are the remarks from a guest journalist, Nir Rosen: MARGARET WARNER: Nir Rosen, how does it
feel to you? I mean, is this a turning point? Is this a small positive
step? Where would you put it on the scale? This is what we've mostly been getting from the news... Bush putting on his rose colored glasses and painting a visual picture that will give compliment to his miserable failures in Iraq and if you search FREESPEACH TV or sometimes PBS you hear the truth behind the Bush unmitigated canards. (SAME OLE, ENOUGH ALREADY, SHIT OF THE BULL!) But yesterday was different, I saw a bright young college graduate who dared to speak up and give her opinion to the "business as usual" republican blowhard, John McCain, (I must interject here, I am very disappointed in McCain's growing of several faces) on another TV show 'COUNT DOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN'. Hearing her reasoning and seeing her eloquent style, I suddenly felt the piercing, whispering breeze of reality trying to penetrate through the smog of gobbledygook we've been fed for the last 5 years of "ABSOLUTE CONTROL" by these "FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME" republicans. And I must tell you, IT FELT GOOD! So today, I researched this subject on the Internet, for information on this brave girl named Jean Sarah Rohe. Since I usually start with the crooksandliar's website my search was a "PIECE OF CAKE" that I enjoyably gormandized, ravenously to put on my puny blog. So that I could perhaps, share, partake and be a party to, spreading this little anecdote far and wide... TO BRIGHTEN ONE'S DAY! Please click on the picture below to see this young woman on Keith Olbermann's show and click the links to the HUFFINGTON BLOG to read all about it. Enjoy, thinkingblue Many
of you are aware of Jean Sarah Rohe's graduation speech which she changed
after learning that John McCain's would be following hers at The New School.
She then wrote an article on the
Huffington Post to
explain her rationale behind her remarks. This led to McCain's staffer Mark
Salter, to write a scathing article to answer her, in which he called her
an idiot. Rohe then
responded the
following day saying:
I'm sad to see that Mr. Salter intentionally misinterpreted
my writing, presumably
to hurt my feelings and frighten me into silence.
Rohe: ...the fact that we were graduating, this was our graduation, that this was our big day. It was much more of a stump speech for Senator McCain and I felt that that was completely out of place and, of course I had the privilege of knowing what the Senator was going to say before he said it so I was prepared for that. If all the world were peaceful now and forever
more, HERE IS ONE RESPONSE FROM THE HUFFINTON COMMENTS: McCain, at Falwell's College, Defends War CLICK HERE TO SEE JOHN EDWARDS ON BUSH CLICK HERE TO SEE GONZALES ON JOURNALISTS
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Thinkingblue
We need more Jean Sara Rohe
McCain Gets Cantankerous Reception at Commencement
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 19, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) -- Senator John McCain of Arizona received a cantankerous reception during his appearance at the New School commencement Friday, where dozens of faculty members and students turned their backs and raised signs in protest and a distinguished student speaker pointedly mocked him as he sat silently nearby.
The historically liberal university has been roiled in controversy in recent weeks over the selection of McCain, a conservative Republican and likely 2008 presidential candidate, to deliver the commencement address.
Some 1,200 students and faculty signed petitions asking the university president, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, to rescind the invitation. Petitioners said McCain's support for the Iraq war and opposition to gay rights and legal abortion do not keep with the prevailing views on campus.
Kerrey, a Democrat who served in the Senate with McCain and, like McCain, is a decorated Vietnam War veteran, addressed the controversy almost immediately after the 2,700 graduates and thousands of other parents and friends filed into Madison Square Garden for the ceremony.
"Sen. McCain, you have much to teach us," Kerrey said to a smattering of boos and hisses. He urged students to exercise the open-mindedness he said was at the heart of the university's progressive history.
But Kerrey's remarks were immediately overshadowed by those of Jean Sara Rohe, one of two distinguished seniors invited by the university's deans to address the graduates.
Beginning by singing a wistful folk tune calling for world peace, Rohe announced she had thrown out her prepared remarks to address the McCain controversy directly.
Read more of it at the new york times