This is what you get, Jean Rohe, when you struggle with your conscience and decide to speak out

you get an highly articulate, humiliating, tongue-lashing from a mccain aide intent on showing you just how foolish you are in expressing your self-aggrandizing and clearly muddled view of one of the world's great men...

You took exception to the paragraph in which he lightly deprecated the vanity of youth. Well, Ms. Rohe, and your fellow graduate's comical self-importance deserve a rebuke far stronger than the gentle suggestions he offered you. So, let me leave you with this. Should you grow up and ever get down to the hard business of making a living and finding a purpose for your lives beyond self-indulgence some of you might then know a happiness far more sublime than the fleeting pleasure of living in an echo chamber. And if you are that fortunate, you might look back on the day of your graduation and your discourtesy to a good and honest man with a little shame and the certain knowledge that it very unlikely any of you will ever posses the one small fraction of the character of John McCain.

whatever smidgen of respect i had for john mccain is now gone... for a public figure, respect and trust must be earned anew every day... in this critical time in the united states, when someone who makes no bones about being a presidential candidate, to claim, even through an aide, that he is ENTITLED to EVERLASTING RESPECT on the basis of past suffering without continuing to demonstrate that he DESERVES it, is the worst kind of arrogance...

senator mccain, you can go directly to hell and take your aide, mark salter, with you...

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