Another Idiotic Democrat

[bobquasit]

I never liked Bob Kerrey. He always seemed to have more looks than brains - a classic go-along-to-get-along Democrat, a breed which is grossly overrepresented in the circles of power.

Once a US Senator and Presidential candidate, he was best known for among other things) his prosthetic leg, and for boffing a few hot young actresses. After he left the Senate, he became president of the progressive New School.

And then he invited John McCain to speak at the New School commencement. Students are protesting. Articles are being written. Kerrey's response?

Protesters Object to McCain as New School Commencement Speaker
"[Kerry] sounded thoroughly unruffled about this latest flap, suggesting that the student and faculty protesters did not get it — not the business of running a university, which he said requires inviting the best graduation speaker possible, and not the business of presidential politics.

It's astonishing - the president of a college defending himself by by insisting that his students and faculty are ignorant. And yet he doesn't seem to have the faintest clue that he might be considered responsible for their education? Not to mention the fact that it's Kerrey who's the clueless one here.

It's all too typical of the Democratic leadership, I'm sorry to say.

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[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

It's starting to sound like 1968 all over again.... when the administrations of the colleges no longer listened to the faculty nor the students but did what they wanted for their own political games in the circles of power.... that ended in riots, protests, building occupations and the like.

History repeats itself, with new variations...

[ckd]

the president of a college defending himself by by insisting that his students and faculty are ignorant

Dude, you never had to deal with John Silber. If you were lucky, ignorant was all he'd insist you were.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I never dealt with Silber directly (although I knew about and hated him), although I did pass by him one time when I was walking out of my old job at Testa, Hurwtiz, & Thibeault. But my brother did have an encounter with him, as it happens; he was a paralegal back then, and was sitting in on a deposition.

Apparently whenever Silber was asked a question that he didn't like he got pissed off, jumped up and waved his stump frantically in the questioner's face. Weird, huh? :D