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05-24-2004, 12:02 PM
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Memory and Math Skills Revisited
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Not to be nit-picky, but your 1/4 figure assumes that of the 50% of eligible voters who did note vote, none supported Bush. While there were many ppl in the last election that either didn't vote or voted for a third party candidate because they liked neither Bush nor Gore, it is probably not the case that this would describe the entire 50% (or perhaps even a majority) of those who did not vote. It is therefore quite misleading to state that "roughly 1/4 of the eligible adults supported Bush." Point 2: Unless by "supported" you mean "voted for." If that's the case, then following your logic neither Clinton nor Reagan had a "mandate" to govern either, because each only had the "support" of about 18% of the eligible population for their first terms. Point 3: Voter turnout was much higher in 1992 than it was in 2002, yet Clinton received a much smaller proportion of the popular vote (43%) then Bush did (48%). Any way you look at it, it's a non-issue. Bush has just as much a "mandate" to govern as any president. 
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05-24-2004, 03:11 PM
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05-24-2004, 04:25 PM
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Sign of the times... they are a changin'
Politically motivated commencement speeches with politics as the main subject are not new to college graduation ceremonies. The majority are liberal in their content and many have been America bash-fests or even Bush bash-fests. Colleges are made up of a disproportionate amount of liberal professors in their faculties. This is a widely known fact, and it's no surprise that this isthe reason why liberal speakers are much more common in commencement addresses.
It's my opinion that those American citizens who are mainstream... those that another thread in this forum call stupid and moronic... are tired of this. They seem to be reacting in a new way, instead of just sitting there and taking it constantly now. What's new is this demonstration of displeasure at the speaker trying to go for yet another Bush-bash. They are beginning to expressing themselves vocally by booing or getting up and leaving. Parents sitting in the audience have been shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to educate their sons and daughters to these institutions. Why do they need to sit there and listen to some partisan political crap on a day they want to celebrate the graduation of their children? Something tells me that many future commencement ceremonies will probably contain speeches by less polarizing speakers with non political content in the speeches.
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05-24-2004, 04:40 PM
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Im glad the quack showed up...
He came, he spoke, he almost got boo'd off the stage.BRAVO! I guess it shows where America stands with support!! Politics had no place at the ceremony but I say bravo!!
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05-25-2004, 07:47 AM
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05-25-2004, 08:08 AM
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My commencement
I remember very little of my commencement speech, I can't even remember who gave it, though I know he (or she) was fairly famous.
What I do remember is a prolix spiel on how the world was changing, how many of us would struggle to find work, how we were expected to be the first generation of Americans to have a lower standard of living than our parents. All doom and gloom concerning the economy (sound familiar?). I'm sure the package was adorned with a ribbon of optimism, but for some reason the closing remarks didn't stick. It all of course turned out to be a load of bull. I, and all of my friends, had jobs within a few weeks of leaving school. I now have relatives who are worried that when their son graduates from Stanford this summer, he will have a hard time finding a job in this economy. What, with all our jobs going overseas (Lou Dobbs says so!). Makes me chuckle.
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05-25-2004, 08:39 AM
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Why wasn't this an important enough issue to mention when
Cheney recently did the VERY SAME THING???
Talk about rank hypocrisy.... 
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05-25-2004, 08:54 AM
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Bush wouldn't go to his daughter's graduation... Why?
Why would Bush fail to go to his daughter's graduation?
Easy answer: He didn't want the bad publicity -- what would it look like, with the crowd booing him... lol.
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