McCain spoke at my college graduation. It was a graduation speech.
He got up there and rambled for almost an hour. It started off well, with him saying how proud we should be and how we should thank our parents and how it was great to have so many minds and we should keep using our college education in daily life, blah blah blah, but that was about 5-10 minutes.
The other 50 or so minutes were him talking about Iraq. About how he felt a deep burning need to continue the work over there. About how it felt right in his heart, and how the whole war was justified because "the followers of Islam are extremists who don't respect freedom and liberty" (not a direct quote, but close). This was said before a multinational audience of mostly liberal college graduates, at a place which has a large population of Muslim students. I could hear the horrified gasps and whispers from the business school (where the largest population of Muslim folks were) and, indeed, from all around when we all realized what kind of idiotic thing he had said.
#1: You don't insult a large portion of your audience on what is supposed to be one of the happiest days of their lives. #2: McCain obviously does not understand what a "college graduation speech" is supposed to entail. He took it to mean "Stand up and congratulate everyone and then present your political platform".
This is why I say that I can never vote for someone who doesn't understand context.
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He got up there and rambled for almost an hour. It started off well, with him saying how proud we should be and how we should thank our parents and how it was great to have so many minds and we should keep using our college education in daily life, blah blah blah, but that was about 5-10 minutes.
The other 50 or so minutes were him talking about Iraq. About how he felt a deep burning need to continue the work over there. About how it felt right in his heart, and how the whole war was justified because "the followers of Islam are extremists who don't respect freedom and liberty" (not a direct quote, but close). This was said before a multinational audience of mostly liberal college graduates, at a place which has a large population of Muslim students. I could hear the horrified gasps and whispers from the business school (where the largest population of Muslim folks were) and, indeed, from all around when we all realized what kind of idiotic thing he had said.
#1: You don't insult a large portion of your audience on what is supposed to be one of the happiest days of their lives.
#2: McCain obviously does not understand what a "college graduation speech" is supposed to entail. He took it to mean "Stand up and congratulate everyone and then present your political platform".
This is why I say that I can never vote for someone who doesn't understand context.