Testing the Truth,

   I am really GLAD that you write this blog article to urge the Deaf America to realize what the GOP presidential candidate, John McCain have been doing to deaf people in general during his reign as Gallaudet Board of Trustee appointed member.

  Honorable John McCain have done real nothing to resolve the Gallaudet protest which he was jokingly seen and known as a maverick. McCain didn't offer anything during his Gally BOT reign. He was purely a political opporuntist as what we already seen his 2008 presidential campaign.

  President Ronald Reagan would be really appalled with John McCain for his political opporuntism. George Walker Herbert (H.W.) Bush supported the Deaf President Now protest. Where was John McCain's support for the DPN back in 1988?

  Look at the recent GOP convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, already raised the RED FLAG about what President McCain would be. The police and FBI done the pre-emptive strikes against protestors five months before the convention and inflirated the vegan groups and anti-war protestors. They cracked down on the ideals of freedom of speech and expression outsside the convention.

  What kind of country we will be living under the McCain presidency? I am no fan of Barack Obama at all.

  The Reason libertianian magazine have an excellent article about what kind of president McCain titled "Will President McCain Obey the Law?" in regard to his overzealous support for enroaching upon Americans' personal privacy in name of war on terrorism. McCain is well-reputable for his voliate temper and kick out many people of his office, then had a change of mind and heart.

 Gally protestor, Ryan Commerson made a GOOD POINT about McCain's so-called impartiality which McCain failed to do his job as the Gallaudet BOT member to reach out to the community and heard out concerns and protests among the Gallaudet constitutency.

  What a hyprocrite John McCain is for against the tortures of anyone and stand by and doing nothing during the Gally protest!

  Barack Obama is a lesser evil of John McCain. We ought to think about voting for the third-party presidential candidate to shake up the American electoral system. We should  be united to refuse voting for anyone and shut down the polling booths as a radical way to send the direct message to our American establishment.

 I am personally not a radical or liberal or conservative. I am purely politically moderate. I have enuff with the American political party dupoly. What choices we really have during the 2008 presidential election???

Robert L. Mason (RLM), RLMDEAF blog

 

Hmm, it's been two years already. So much had changed since then, yet a lot of things remain the same. I don't see much improvement in the area of Deaf Empowerment as oppression still happens within the Deaf Community. However, more deaf residential schools are becoming proactive and assertive in getting quality education and accessible communication.

Hi Robert, yes you are right, we don't know what good (if any) McCain did while sitting on the Gally Board. He was a senator, as he is now, a powerful man. How did he use his power? His support was more for a few people whom he personally liked as Gallaudet administrators than for the Deaf community. He surely supported the failed Provost as the next president for Gallaudet... How could he? Could we trust someone who did this? Would we like him as the next president of the country? I just don't know. I am not crazy for about Obama either, but I definitely feel Obama would be a much better choice for president. Not only for the country. Also for the Deaf.

testing_the_truth

Dear MishkaZena, how good to read your viewpoint here again! For a long time, I did not feel like writing much. I kept struggling with challenging moments. Now I feel, we should talk. There could be a new meaning given to that sad day, to that turning point of the tide for the Gally Protest, to this very unique Black Friday. A meaning of failure of a member of the political establishment. A failure of a senator who did not care enough to know us and our struggles better. He did not care enough to recognize how big pain and much suffering he inflicted upon the Gallaudet community, and upon the Deaf people, by supporting an arrogant and untalented person for Gallaudet president. In my eyes, he became disqualified at that moment from winning any high office. That is we may need to talk about now...

testing_the_truth

You have been missed. I was glad to see you bacckkk!

I am glad you brought McCain up. His role in the Gallaudet Protest was discussed in GallyNet but not much elsewhere. In my opinion, he is a rat, jumping the ship once BoT finally listened to the stakeholders and reversed its decision. Actually it was the best decision done by BoT as Gallaudet had made tremendous improvements since then academicaly. Did McCain care that Gallaudet was actually in danger of sinking, with the increasing enrollment of academically unprepared students? Nope. Please do cover the importance of his failure to intervene with the protest.