Word: rohe
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...Unlike some protesters in the audience who were just rude and childish, Rohe was respectful. And saying that McCain didn't reflect the values of The New School seems undebatable. The school was founded in 1919 by philosopher John Dewey, historian Charles Beard and social commentator Thorstein Veblen, all of whom were deeply disillusioned by World War I and gave the school a pacifist streak that seems hopelessly naive in retrospect. Beard, best known as co-author with his wife, Mary, of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, which argued that the founders were operating more out of monetary self...
...School's founders may have been wrong, but Rohe read them right. Afterwards, the university's president, Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic Senator who lost a limb in Vietnam and is a longtime friend of McCain, praised both speakers' courage, which seems appropriate. In these internet dustups, both sides, it's worth remembering, usually have a point...
...another famous student speaker. In 1969, Hillary Rodham at Wellesley used her speech to chide the women's college's commencement speaker, Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, for his support of the Vietnam War. Rodham took it to Brooke in a way that's surprisingly similar to how Rohe took it to McCain...
...speech at the commencement ceremonies of The New School. During his address to students of the liberal New York City institution last week, McCain was booed and jeered by some of the students. He was given a gentler rebuke from the podium by one of the student speakers, Jean Rohe, who said McCain's support for the Iraq war "does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded." McCain himself seemed unfazed by the remarks, but then Rohe elaborated on her remarks in the Huffington Post, saying she was going to make McCain look like an idiot. McCain...
...what actually got said from the podium, McCain's speech was perfectly sensible. He made a case that the United States has real enemies and that we shouldn't be fighting with each other. And what his critic, Jean Rohe, said was perfectly reasonable too. She made a call for peace, denounced the war, and noted that neither Osama bin Laden nor any weapons of mass destruction had been found...