Ashcroft tells Northwest University grads to give life real meaning

[icymist]

Sunday, May 8, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 a.m.




Ashcroft tells Northwest University grads to give life real meaning

By Rachel Tuinstra

Seattle Times Eastside bureau

It is the "presence of consequence that gives freedom its meaning," former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft told the graduating class of Northwest University yesterday.

"You are not meaningless, you are meaningful," Ashcroft said as he looked out across a sea of more than 4,000 people — including 292 graduates — who gathered at Overlake Christian Church in Redmond for the commencement ceremony.

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[MasonJar]

1. What can one say,but Assshcroft!

[pennylane100]

2. Watching a graduate shove a pie in that man's face

would certainly give a lot of meaning to my life.

[PowerToThePeople]

3. You are not meaningless, you are meaningful

You are to be underpaid corporate indentured servants who pay into my wall street buddies huge offshore accounts with your soon to be privatized SS funds.

:barf: oops, I mean :puke:

[yorkiemommie1]

4. the 'one political science graduate'

in the class seems to line w/ the Patriot Act quite nicely.

yes, my children, soar like eagles to spread democracy over our chosen DOMINION!!!!!!!!!

now, of course, the GOP is targeting public universities and their 'liberal' profs.

[cliss]

5. I wonder if he sang?

His trademark 'soar like an eagle'.

'you're not meaningless, you're meaningful'. What crap. I'm serious. If I had to stand in that group, I would have thrown up.

[0007]

6. OMFG!!

[wallwriter]

7. And we know exactly which ones of you are meaningful

because the Patriot Act allows us to snoop through your home and your records without you even knowing.

What a piece of s***. Remember, this is the politician who lost an election against a dead guy.

[Cocoa]

8. what kind of school would choose Ashcroft to speak?

it's depressing even to think about listening to John Ashcroft at graduation.

[pie]

9. I would be pissed beyond belief

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. So they now call themselves Northwest University.

This bible thumper college is probably the only place Asscrop would feel welcome in the blue state of Washington.

[sniffa]

11. ashcroft teLLs grads to, "Let the eagLe soar"

[Doctor_J]

12. Give your life meaning - spy on a neighbor