CLAREMONT - Karl Rove, the former Deputy Chief of Staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, discussed presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and gave his take on the legacy of the current president. But hundreds of protesters greeted Rove before, during and after his speech.
Free speech for me, but not for thee!
When Rove tried to leave the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, at least two people and possibly a third claimed they were pepper sprayed while campus officials said they were not.
Tried to leave? Why, yokel rag-hack, was he not able to leave freely, and how would this lead to allegations of pepper spraying?
A bomb threat was also determined to be unfounded, campus officials added.
See, no harm done.
Rove's speech took place from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday inside the Claremont McKenna College Athenaeum. "One of the most important resources is time," Rove said about the 2008 presidential election. Rove said Obama had not seized the narrowing election days to "advance his case."
For instance, Obama linked the country's economic problems to Bush and McCain instead of showing "he's up to the job" with a specific proposal.
Rove said he felt Bush was a "successful" president but they had "done a lousy job of explaining" why he was. Rove listed the million dollar AIDS relief fund for Africa, the accountability of the No Child Left Behind performance program, large amounts of money invested in alternative energy and privatizing social security.
That is a multi-billion dollar AIDS program, you poltroon. I suspect this is a "typo-lie," the incidental insertion of false information that can be dismissed as a simple error if it is challenged. Typo-lies are a running joke in the academic world.
After the speech, Todd Logan, 21, of Pomona College, said he saw two people get hit by pepper spray when Rove was led out by security while other students reported three.
Has this Todd seen Bigfoot or Jimmy Hoffa recently?
Some students said they were hit by the vehicle Rove was drove off campus in but officials denied their claims.
WTF? "DROVE off the campus in." This person should be drove from the ranks of journalism.
Henry Watkins, consultant for Claremont McKenna College, said no students were hit with pepper spray or hit by a vehicle.
We did gas and run over a few of those anarchist townie slackers, though.
A bomb was reported at 7:31 p.m. inside of nearby Collins dining hall but was later found to not be true, Watkins said.
Omit "of," you dolt. I remember the good old days, when literacy was a pre-requisite for journalism.