As per CNN: Ten students... count 'em... ten students walked out...

[Puzzler]

... during Obama's Notre Dame speech!!!

Keep repeating it, maybe the number will go up.

[vaberella]

1. 10 out of 2900?! OMG, it was a mass exodus. n/t

[stillcool]

13. they weren't graduates..

[grantcart]

2. Well we aren't really sure that they were students either, they could have been visitors

None of the graduating seniors left

[rufus dog]

15. so that would be

1/10 of 1%, approximately!????????????? Well worth the time media put in to the controversy. Come on media, get back to the important stuff like lack of suit jackets in the Oval office.

[firedupdem]

3. Right. By tomorrow it will be 100. n/t

[DRoseDARs]

30. And they'll all be valedictorians. n/t

[NYC_SKP]

4. Six of them had to go to the bathroom.

The other four found themselves at the wrong event. :evilgrin:

[pinto]

6. LOL.

Good one.

[onehandle]

5. They were not graduates. Not even clear if they were students. nt

[SoxFan]

7. Ten people who need to grow the fuck up

My law school commencement speaker was Asa Hutchinson. Hutchinson was one of the impeachment managers back in 1998, and a very, very conservative Republican. Nobody walked out. Nobody protested. The student speaker, a very liberal Dem, joked about running against him, but that was it. Asa'a son and nephew were part of the graduating class, and even those of us who were diametrically opposed to their politics liked them and knew that it was a day to celebrate our accomplishments, not to have a partisan food fight.

[Clio the Leo]

8. I wouldn't walk out of my OWN commencement....

.... even if ChEENey himself was up there. NT

[Thrill]

9. Fools

[snowdays]

11. No, they did what they felt was the right thing to do. It is their

class and their University also (along with the ones who stayed). I will not vilify them or call them names.

[stillcool]

14. they were not graduates..

so it wasn't 'their' class.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Ah, I can see the chain emails being written and sent out right now

"Notre Dame collectively turns back on Radical Liberal President! In a bold move at commencement, a majority of the graduating seniors, all Christian patriots, noiselessly left the ceremony as abortion-loving President Hussein took the stage. They caused no disruption to the ceremony, and yet President Hussein was livid with anger, screaming at the unashamed Christians, and sending his Secret Service to close the doors and force everyone back to their seats. Under threat of being sent to the liberal abortion-loving gulags, the students were forced to endure their values being systematically dismantled by a president who isn't even an American citizen and is a secret Muslim.

Only ten students managed to get out before the jackbooted thugs forced the rest to endure the propagandistic conditioning that is the mantra of the Hussein administration.

If you love God, you will send this note to all your friends. If you don't send it on, then you are one of the silent evil baby-hating fascist socialist communist tree-hugging God-haters."


Of course, theirs will be full of typos and shitty grammar, but I'm too tired to emulate shitty writing, so you have to envision it yourself.

[neverforget]

12. Fox Propaganda will say 1000.

[Old Hank]

16. Some students stayed, but disapproved, CNN said

"Some graduates attended the ceremony, but expressed their disapproval by donning mortarboards marked with a cross and the outline of an infant's footprints. Others countered by wearing mortarboards adorned with an Obama campaign symbol."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/16/obama.notre.dame/index.html

[Jennicut]

19. Hmmm, I never knew those ulgy things we had to wear on our heads could be so useful

I never ever thought about adoring mine with anything back in '99. Then again, a cross with baby's feet is kind of, well tacky.

[AllentownJake]

24. I wrote Jello on mine

My friend wrote Pudding.

Bill Cosby is always a speaker at Temple.

[Jennicut]

34. LOL. I wish now that I had done something.

Oh well.

[Raine]

27. In the late 60's-70's students adorned the top of them

with peace symbols. :-)

[FrenchieCat]

20. The fact that you buy into lies and exaggerations from the very media

who took us to war shows us exacty who you are.

[Cha]

22. So?

The corporatemediawhores want a controversy and if there isn't one ..they manufacture it.

[Hieronymus]

17. I heard that, but then I like news coverage to to be complete.

[TexasObserver]

18. Apparently abortion isn't as big a deal to the students as suggested.

Because if it is, you know they'd have the courage to get up and walk out.

[chollybocker]

21. ...and home-schoolers stayed away in droves.

;)

[BlooInBloo]

23. *yawn*

[SoCalDem]

25. Intolerance made them ruin the culmination of 4 years' worth of hard work

how sad..

It's too bad they could not have just sat there, listening to the president of the US, and then gone out for coffee or to a party..

No one was handing out 2-for-1 abortion coupons, or trying to force them to change their own minds..

maybe Notre Dame should just be a Catholics-Only college..and should be taught by priests & nuns only..

oh wait.. if they did that, what would happen to the "Fightin'Irish" football players?...money talks..

[Mz Pip]

26. that's probably about the same number

that would have to go pee given the size of the audience.

Maybe they weren't protesting. Maybe they just had to hit the john.

[Forkboy]

28. LOL...I'll always associate failed right wing rallies with this.

[bulloney]

29. How many of those protestors practice birth control, which the Catholic church opposes?

The only method of birth control recognized by the Catholic church is Natural Family Planning. Under this method, a woman's menstrual cycle and fertile period are tracked via her temperature and mucus secretions. You know that a percentage of the students at ND engage in sex. How many of them use NFP?

It's so maddening how a few fanatics in the Catholic church try to pigeonhole every election and the entire national debate on one issue--abortion. After the pedophile priest scandals and the cover-ups from the Catholic church's administration, I don't know how much credibility the church really has right now.

[northernlights]

31. and the protesters outside

weren't related to Notre Dame at all. They were operation rescue wingnuts.

[Rebubula]

33. Operation Rescue...

...I spent a lot of time with those jerks back in the early 90s. I was doing Clinic Defense (making sure that women had unfettered access to clinics. Many times just meant creating a wall of people between the patients and the OR assholes) in DC and had to shadow these people - was even on a 1st name basis with Randall Terry for a while because I shadowed him the most.

I feel much better NOT having to associate with these assholes anymore.

[rasputin1952]

32. .029%, just a hair over 1/4 of 1%...

I won't condemn them for their POV, they have the right to believe what they want...just as those who swear there is no gravity can believe that. Makes me feel incredibly superior though...:D