Lawrence shuts down
The world has stopped in Lawrence, KS at one of the most far-left campuses on the face of the Earth - and that’s saying something. Former President Bill Clinton is to speak at 14:15 before a crowd of 12,000 fawning worshippers at the University of Kansas’s Allen Fieldhouse today. You can get the round-up from the Lawrence Journal-World.
A fact worth noting but hardly mentioned in the article is that this lecture is the first in a series sponsored by KU’s Dole Institute of Politics - as in former Senate Majority Leader and Presidential candidate Bob Dole (R-KS), the shining star of Kansas politics. Except, of course, in Lawrence.
UPDATE: I noticed a quote from a KU student who, after all he has surely seen and been exposed to at the university, still has his head screwed on straight:
John Benjamin, a freshman from Lawrence, was sitting in front of Snow Hall this afternoon and waiting for the the excitement to die down so he could move out of the dorms.
“Bill Clinton is getting paid so much to speak, he can’t possibly have anything interesting to say,” Benjamin said.
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