Top McCain Aide Insults Entire College Graduating Class...

[Ichingcarpenter]

Top McCain Aide Insults Entire College Graduating Class...

"Very Unlikely Any Of You Will Ever Possess...One Small Fraction Of The Character Of John McCain"...



Mark Salter, a longtime aide and chief of staff to Senator John McCain, posted a response to Jean Rohe's blog entry on the Huffington Post, writing that her speech at the New School university's graduation ceremony last Friday "succeeded in making look like an idiot." Salter writes, of Rohe and her graduating class, that it's "unlikely any of you will ever posses the one small fraction of the character of John McCain."

As discussed in the New York Times and a column by Maureen Dowd, Rohe, one of two student commencement speakers, discarded her originally prepared remarks and instead delivered a speech that questioned the university's decision to extend its invitation to McCain, and referenced several passages of McCain's prepared remarks before he delivered them (the same speech having been given at both Columbia and Liberty Universities the week prior) -- a decision she discusses at length on the Huffington Post.

In the comment submitted on Rohe's Huffington Post entry, the longtime McCain aide and co-author of several of the Senator's books derided Rohe's remarks as "an act of vanity and nothing more," and suggests that her fellow New School graduates "could learn a thing or two about tolerance and respect from the students of Liberty University."

The following is Mr. Salter's posted comment, in full:

I am employed by Senator McCain and I helped draft his remarks for the New School commencement ceremony. Ms. Rohe takes exception to the fact that the speech was written with all four commencements he has been invited to address. The Senator's intention was to discuss with Americans, not any particular subset of Americans, but his fellow countrymen, the things that he feels are important to remember in our political debates: that we owe each other our respect just as we owe each other our best advocacy for the things we believe are important for our country. He did not feel that the students of Liberty University were a more appropriate audience for his address than the New School's graduates. It was an act of respect. Although it is quite clear that part of his audience at Madison Square Garden had no intention of reciprocating......snip


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05/21/top-mccain-aide-insults-e_n_21405.html

[Binka]

1. Mark Salter Is A MOFO Tool

These idiots don't realize that their gig is UP! Go get 'em Obama!

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

2. That's the way to win voters! Insult them!

[Iris]

14. yes! Insult an entire generation when they are under 25!

Those Republicans are SO smart!

[yellowcanine]

3. Way to go Salty! That will win them to your candidate for sure!

Insult the lot of them, even the ones who might support McCain. Nice going.

[sarge43]

4. By 'character', does that include

calling your wife a c*nt in public?

[Binka]

5. Every Man Of Character Does That, You Silly Thing

Women just love it, it helps to build their character. This is a republican family Value of THE HIGHEST VALUE. It could have only have been made better if he had said it on TV.

[sarge43]

6. ".... if he had said it on TV."

With any luck, he will. Or he'll recycle that scummy 'joke' about Chelsea Clinton.

"Congress made you a gentleman. As usual, congress screwed up."

[ladjf]

7. Or sucking up to Bush even after Bush totally screwed him over

back in 2000.

[Ian David]

8. If he was speaking to Regent University, he might have been correct. n/t

[Ian David]

9. "However," he added, "you're all certainly more principled than his wife, Cindy." n/t

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. "Could learn a thing or two about tolerance and respect from the students of Liberty University"

Like how to denigrate women, hate homosexuals, crusade against those who do not share your religious beliefs, subvert the Constitution and establish a fundamentalist Christian theocracy the likes of which would make the Taliban drool with envy?

Liberty University is Jerry Foulwell's institution. Of alleged learning, that is. According to the Wikipedia article, LU was the target of a SEC securities fraud investigation in 1972, has financial ties to the Unification Church and is actively recruiting "young earth" "biology" teachers. I know from other sources that their law degrees teach a wild assortment of lies and distortions about the US legal system.

How lovely that the McCain campaign is holding them up as exemplars of tolerance and respect.

[JBoy]

13. LOL. You don't normally see "Liberty University" and "tolerance" in the same sentence.

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. It was an irony alert when I saw it

Liberty also teaches creationism as an elective....

Notice also how 'diplomatic' one of McCain's top aides was?
Diplomacy at its 'McCain's Best'

[VP505]

11. Man, what rock

did that douche crawl out from under? A very good example why I have developed such a dislike for anything RePuke, no sense of reality and not an iota of integrity, honesty or moral character yet believing that they epitomize all those qualities!

[Indenturedebtor]

12. Yeah I guess you have to know what it is to know if you have it or not.

They haven't the slightest clue.

What a bunch of jackasses.

[hasssan1]

15. Mark Salter is an ass-Hole just like his body

[HawkerHurricane]

16. He's a character, all right.

"Keating 5" mean anything to you?