….there is no doubt in our mind that some UW students will, following the president?s visit, be more inspired than ever to get out and vote Republican or Libertarian or Green. So be it with those choices as well. Election seasons should be energizing and challenging. They should stir Americans to all sorts of action. And university campuses should be hotbeds of political activity and engagement.
So we find it comic that anyone is complaining — or even worried — about the UW welcoming Obama. Anytime a president, or a leader of the opposition to the president, wants to appear on the UW campus, officials should bend over to make the visit happen. In fact, if Sarah Palin wants to come and campaign in Wisconsin, we hope she?ll consider a visit to the UW campus. Then students — and the rest of us — could compare the two. And the discourse would be the better for it.
So how about it, governor? Fancy a trip to the UW? You?re invited.