Condi Rice speaking at BC

jon448 · 05-15-2006, 07:55

As some of you may know Condoleezza Rice is going to be speaking at this years Boston College commencement. Several of my friends go there and apperently it's a huge deal to alot of people there, they've been protesting to the school President and have threatened to boycott the speech. Now this happens. A professor is resigning because of the speech. That's just crazy. I wish my college was prestegious enough to host the sitting Secretary of State. I think it's shameful about the reactions that people are having due to her speaking. Anyways off to run...hopefully I won't drown in the overflowing river that runs along my typical route.

Goggles Pizano · 05-15-2006, 08:06

Oh but Father Leahy I would certainy praise your decision to invite cop killer Mumia abu Jamaal! What a great speech he gives from his jail cell after murdering Danny Faulkner.

This guy is an ass clown.

**The Reaper** · 05-15-2006, 08:23

Well, that is the libs' idea of free speech....it only applies when the speaker is a controversial liberal.

The protests, shouting down, and walking out on a black female Sec State are merely exercising First Amendment rights. Unless it were a liberal speaker, then it would be intolerance, racism, or symptomatic of closed minds.

As soon as the kids who graduate stop being brainwashed by lib professors, have to get a job and start paying taxes, I suspect that their perspective will change significantly.

TR

**Bill Harsey** · 05-15-2006, 08:47

An English professor resigns to protest Ms. Rice?

I'm supposed to think this resignation matters or hurts my feelings or better yet, makes me concerned? This is far from falling on ones sword to save the nation.

I think the English prof is lazy and this is a nice way to increase the pay scale by getting hired later by an even more liberal school down the road after achieving "hero status" for these actions.

jon448 · 05-15-2006, 09:24

To be honest Mr Harsey, BC is one of the more liberal colleges in Mass. The only major school that I would really consider "more liberal" would be U-Mass Amherst, but thats just from my experience visiting friends their. I don't really think it matters either. It's just kind of a rediculous reaction to the Commencement Speaker.
Oh and TR we'll see how much more liberal they become if they stay around here. I mean we keep Teddy Kennedy in office so it doesn't seem like people in Mass get smarter as they get older.
I wouldn't be suprised if they staged protests their if the new Pope came to speak too.

CPTAUSRET · 05-15-2006, 10:01

This POS is an attention "Ho", his argument is that he in good conscience can not allow his students to hear lies, nor take money from an institution that condones such behavior by allowing Condi to speak...I don't think he would mind if Teddy K spoke, nah, that man didn't/doesn't lie. He wouldn't mind if either clinton spoke, no prevarication going on there!

He is a hypocritical scumbag, and a tool with a liberal agenda!

Screw him!

Terry

**Bill Harsey** · 05-15-2006, 10:21

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Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

This POS is an attention "Ho", his argument is that he in good conscience can not allow his students to hear lies, nor take money from an institution that condones such behavior by allowing Condi to speak...I don't think he would mind if Teddy K spoke, nah, that man didn't/doesn't lie. He wouldn't mind if either clinton spoke, no prevarication going on there!

He is a hypocritical scumbag, and a tool with a liberal agenda!

Screw him!

Terry

Terry, Maybe you should go have a dialogue with this english teacher so you can better understand how he feels.

CPTAUSRET · 05-15-2006, 10:28

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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey

Terry, Maybe you should go have a dialogue with this english teacher so you can better understand how he feels.

I would like that, Nancy probably wouldn't understand my animus toward him though.

lrd · 05-15-2006, 10:57

[hijack]
Just here to say that not all English teachers are like this guy.

lrd
(gave up being an English teacher to follow the drum)
[/hijack]

**Bill Harsey** · 05-15-2006, 15:13

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Originally Posted by CPTAUSRET

I would like that, Nancy probably wouldn't understand my animus toward him though.

Nancy may not understand it but she could study it.

(Sorry Dr., That was about Terry, not you)

lrd! Great to see you here. No one on this board would confuse you with the individual being discussed here.

lrd · 05-15-2006, 17:02

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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey

lrd! Great to see you here. No one on this board would confuse you with the individual being discussed here.

LOL

Things have been a bit hectic for the last couple of weeks, but seem to be back to normal (whatever that is). Looks like I have a lot of catch-up reading.

SRT31B · 05-15-2006, 17:47

I just don't understand why this guy is even "newsworthy." Him quitting his job to prove a point (that I'm pretty sure no one cares about) is doing nothing more than getting rid of a scumbag teacher who shouldn't be there in the first place (can't complain about that).

What really sets me off though is that this guy will probably end up on the Communist News Network, or some other cable news channel spouting off his left wing, pinko-hippie, tree huggin, soccer mom lovin, communist crap to the majority of the viewing public and get more air time then the Sec's address (which as stated before is probably a rare event).

liberals... can't live with em... can't run em all over with a giant SUV either....

Warrior-Mentor · 05-16-2006, 00:24

To balance things out:

Representative John Murtha, the liberal Hawk, who has consistantly spoken out against the Iraq War the past couple of years, was heckled at a commencement speech he gave at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania this weekend:

Rep. John Murtha called for the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq during a university commencement speech, drawing mixed reaction.

"We don't care. This isn't about graduation," Leonard Pierce, the parent of a graduate, called out several times from the audience during Seton Hill University's commencement Saturday.

The problem is, this doesn't make big news...you wouldn't believe how I had to dig to find this...

**Bill Harsey** · 05-16-2006, 07:46

Warrior-Mentor, off topic but you prompted a memory.
I was lucky enough to have a job, logging, that I earned enough money at to pay for 100% of my university "education" out here.
Also note this was years ago when tuition was more in line with the ability to earn the money to pay it.
At the commencement ceremony all the president of the U could talk about was "as we went out and became succesful to be sure and remember to give money back here"

The education you get there isn't in the classroom.