May 24, 2006 Jean Sara Rohe
Before John McCain stepped to the podium of the liberal New School University in New York, Jean Sara Rohe, a student graduation speaker, had the guts to read him the riot act. She was well-prepared. This is because it was known in advance that McCain was going to deliver the same remarks he had delivered at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. ''The senator does not reflect the ideals upon which this university was founded,'' Rohe declared. "'He will tell us we are young and too naive to have valid opinions. "I am young," Rohe continued, "and though I don't possess the wisdom that time affords us, I do know that pre-emptive war is dangerous. And I know that despite all the havoc that my country has wrought overseas in my name, Osama bin Laden still has not been found, nor have those weapons of mass destruction.'' It appears that Ms. Rohe, class of 2006, might be the voice we need in the Senate, given all the cowering that goes on there, despite the fact that more than 60% of Americans now oppose the Iraq War. Perhaps it takes the honesty of youth, untainted by the cynicism of D.C. insiders, to reveal the failure that McCain's pro-Iraq war cheerleading so glibly ignores. In what can best be called his commencement "stump speech," McCain lectured the graduates on how they will become wiser with age. Jean Sarah Rohe had the courage to tell a United States Senator that the reality just may be the other way around -- and for that she is awarded this week's BuzzFlash "Wings of Justice Award." * * * Nominated by: Barbara Illes of Santa Monica, California
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