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”…

The Huffington Post May 21, 2006 at 11:22 PM

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 commencement speech at the New School university's graduation ceremony last Friday "succeeded in making [herself] look like an idiot." He goes on to say to her and her graduating class that it's "unlikely any of you will ever posses the [sic] 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 chosen student commencement speakers, discarded her originally prepared remarks and delivered a speech written the night before, which questioned the university's decision to extend the speaking invitation to McCain, and referenced several passages of McCain's prepared remarks before they were delivered (the same speech having been delivered at Columbia and Liberty Universities in the weeks 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 suggests that her fellow New School graduates "could learn a thing or two about tolerance and respect from the students of Liberty University."

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