Someone at the University of Massachusetts Amherst thought it would be a good idea to give Andrew Card an honorary doctorate degree. Ignoring campus protests, an online petition, and common sense, they went through with the plan on Friday. That gave the students and faculty at the ceremony the opportunity to tell Mr. Card what they think of his service to the Bush Administration.
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Customarily the recipient gives a speech, but Card just sat down after he received his award.
Here are a couple of the reasons Card is so popular. From Wikipedia:
Card is known to have headed the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), whose members include Karl Rove, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin. This group is known for controlling public relations for the Iraq War.
In March 2004 Card tried to convince Attorney General John D. Ashcroft to reauthorize a domestic surveillance program, which the Justice Department had just determined was illegal. Ashcroft lay ill in an intensive-care unit when Card and White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales urged him to sign the papers. Ashcroft refused.
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Some of the YouTube comments:
- Well that went well.
- Honary Degree for Karl Rove, anybody?
- Kinda sucks when you don’t have those pre-screened, hand-picked audiences, eh there, Andy? I wonder when ol’ George and Dick will have the courage to face a real audience.
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
President Bush received a bachelor’s degree from Yale which was nearly honorary (2.35 GPA). They also awarded him an honorary upgrade to a master’s degree in 2001. I think this would be a good time to bump him up to a doctorate.
UMass also honored Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe with a degree in 1986. They are currently considering posthumous degrees for Adolf Hiltler and Joseph Stalin.
:: Cynical C
