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Old 07-07-2008
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Re: Bush Heckled During July 4 Speech

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Originally Posted by drgoodtrips View Post
I was in town already and my family wanted to see it. It only took a few hours and it made a lot of people happy.



I went to Carnegie Mellon University, and the speaker was the man who was the governor of Pennsylvania during the time I was in college. That seems like not only an appropriate speaker, but a prestigious one, the general importance of whom seemed to add to the atmosphere for those attending, your personal political opinions notwithstanding.
Right, so if someone like Michael Brown were chosen to speak instead of the Governor of PA, it would still have made those people just as happy?

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From general reading of your posts, your politics are fringe and the bulk of your content designed for shock value instead of intelligent discourse, so your definition of "appropriate" in this circumstance is generally going to be considered irrelevant by most of society. If you scoured the globe long enough, you could find someone who would get their knickers irrationally twisted about anyone who spoke at such an event.
Probably, but the factor that gauges who is an appropriate speaker is not whether someone would "get their knickers irrationally twisted" but rather whether half the student body gets its knickers twisted rationally, which would likely be the case if Brown (see above) were chosen.
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