Archduke Cheney the Non-Great is severely dissed by graduates of one of the flagship universities of the state where the unholy oligarchy, of which he is second in line of succession, launched its historic Coup d'etat. Appropriately, Florida State University is in Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. It was there that the House of Bush pulled off the first dynastic restoration in the Republic's history, placing his Lowness Bush the Second extralegally upon the throne which his autocratic father, Bush the First, had so ignominiously lost to a populist groundswell of an informed citizenry.
Let us diligently rededicate ourselves to the humanistically sacred task of which these valiant young men and women remind us: Returning Democracy to the United States of America
In an e-mail appeal to the university's president, T.K. Wetherell, more than 200 students asked that he urge the vice president to lay off the campaign talk during Saturday's graduation sendoff.
"We strongly urge you to seek assurances that his speech will not be another political diatribe aimed only at scoring points in the presidential campaign," said the letter. "The graduation ceremony should be the culmination of students' time at the university and a chance to celebrate accomplishments with friends and family. It would be unfortunate if that day were besmirched by personal attacks either direct or indirect against candidates for public office."
Tom Barcus, a senior from Vero Beach and a member of the student Democratic organization, said the letter was prompted by Mr. Cheney's appearance on Monday at Westminster College when he attacked Mr. Kerry's national security credentials. The content of the speech was so tough that the president of that school circulated his own e-mail message saying he was disappointed in the tone of the speech and that it was not what had been billed by the vice president's office. He then extended an equal-time invitation to Mr. Kerry.
Mr. Barcus said he spoke with Mr. Wetherell, a former speaker of the Florida House, this afternoon and the president said he had no intention of contacting the vice president's office. Mr. Barcus said the university president told him that Mr. Cheney will understand the nature of a commencement ceremony.
Mr. Barcus said he sure hopes so. "We just wanted to make sure our commencement ceremony for the graduates was done properly and was not a campaign event,'' he said.
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