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Graduating seniors are adult enough to hear from politicians.

I don't agree that they are all scum.

I admit to the idea that all politicians lie at one time or another. But so do all of us; news media outlets (left, right, libertarians, separatist, etc), professors, executives, leaders, followers, you name it, we can all be accused of pushing an agenda and omitting facts at times.

Again, by saying that they should not be allowed to speak at campuses is censorship. The broad spectrum of political ideas in this country is a result of non-censorship.

I'm a conservative, my ears won't melt nor will my head explode if I listen to someone with an extremely different opinion give a speech. I live in Portland, OR, not exactly the hot bed of conservatives and I seem to be fine. We can all learn something from each other.

As far as personalizing this? Of course, we all are.
You posted; "Now here's a guy with courage of convictions, an example for us all."

That's a pretty strong personal statement that you made. I thought that all of our posts here in OT were pretty much of a personal nature. Nothing wrong with that.

I definitely wasn't personally attacking you. Just making rebuttal comments to your statements. If you would rather not have rebuttals posted and have a discussion of differing opinions, then please indicate as such in the beginning of your post.