Santorum booed, jeered at Cheney State University

[Penndems]

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/local/8631343.htm

THORNBURY - U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum was greeted with boos and turned backs Saturday while giving a commencement speech at Cheyney University, a historically black college.

"I know my selection as commencement speaker was not met with unanimous approval," Santorum said.

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Santorum encouraged students to rebel against today's self-centered culture, that says "if it feels good, do it," Santorum said. Instead, he said, the motto should be "if it's good for others, do it."

The quiet protest turned to a chorus of boos and jeers at several points, particularly when Santorum focused on family values and the percentage of black children born out of wedlock.

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What a sanctimonious ass. 2006 can't come fast enough.

[Wickerman]

1. What an idiotic choice

of a name for a school. Oh, uh, for a speaker at ANY college.

[Penndems]

13. Cheney State University is the oldest historically black college

in the U.S.

Jim Vance, the senior anchor of the 6:00 news on the NBC affiliate in Washington, DC -- WRC-TV -- is a Cheney State graduate.

http://www.nbc4.com/nbc4/1198931/detail.html

Here's their website:

http://www.cheyney.edu/

[Wickerman]

14. understood

just, at this point in history, a horrible choice for a name.

[Penndems]

15. I know :(

n/t

[Failure]

2. you said it...sanctimonious ASSHOLE. also one of the

goofiest lookin' mofo's around. a hypocrite. a dick.


failure.

[Fenris]

3. Wow

The quiet protest turned to a chorus of boos and jeers at several points, particularly when Santorum focused on family values and the percentage of black children born out of wedlock.

You know, if you're a super-white, ultra-conservative cracker, the best way to get a black audience on your side is to opine on how many black children are born out of wedlock.

[Penndems]

4. ROFL!

I was thinking exactly the same thing. What the hell was he thinking? Or, better yet, WAS he thinking?

[jobycom]

6. That's easy. He was thinking

"I'm white, they're black, so I am superior to their poor little misguided selves."

Piece of garbage.

[Penndems]

8. Exactly

How benevolent of him to espouse his "Christian" viewpoints to an audience so deeply in need of them <sarcasm>.

:puke:

[AndyTiedye]

9. How Do These Gits Get Chosen as Commencement Speakers???

[Kinkistyle]

11. Well the guy IS a U.S. Senator...

I mean thats fairly prestigious to have a U.S. Congressman to come to your commencement. Unfortunately the senator also happens to be a racist thug.

Its the same with Dubya. Imagine how fortunate it is to have the most powerful leader in the world to come speak at your event -- only its Dumbya... :eyes:

[Arbustosux]

17. and they are all on welfare too

dontcha know?

geeze, same old tired Repub mantras...when will minorities see that the Repubs are racist!?

[jobycom]

5. I wonder if he told them to stop shoplifting

What a disgusting pig. Who the Hell invited a racist pig like that to speak before a graduation, a time of hope, optimism and anxiety?

Graduation speeches are supposed to congratulate the students, not the idiot speaker and his dumbass party's racist ideology.

[candy331]

7. This is a joke right?

Surely the choice of speaker was meant to be a joke by someone.

[jobycom]

10. No idea

But someone needs to have their job severely threatened, if not removed, for something like that. It could not have been well-intentioned.

[struggle4progress]

19. Maybe it was a last act of education as the students leave ...

along the lines of "OK you've learned something: now get out there and start using it cause there are lots of scumbags like this guy out to get you.":evilfrown:

[Arugula Latte]

12. LOL! "Self-centered culture"

This from a member of the REPUBLICAN party, the most self-centered, I'm-out-for-mine-and-screw-you group of greedy pigs to ever besmirch this country!

[themann1086]

20. yeah, where the hell

does a REPUBLICAN of Santorum's stripe think he gets the right to criticize people for being "self-centered"? Hello? Republicans? The people who argue that the government is "stealing your money" and "wasting it on the poor and minorities"?

oy.

[goclark]

16. Yea! Yes,Yes,Yes

[Failure]

18. IS there any video of this? I heard that more than half of the

graduating class turned their backs on Santorum-(ap)