UC Irvine Should Immediately Rescind Its Invitation to 2014 Commencement Speaker (and War Criminal) Barack Obama

From the Washington Free Beacon:

On March 20 the University of California, Irvine, announced that Barack Obama will give the commence address to its class of 2014.

This is deeply disturbing, and anyone—or any university—who values ethics should be concerned.

Why is this? Because he was part of the failed Obama administration? Because he is a Democrat and we should hate Democrats?

No. This is not an issue of partisanship. It makes sense that UC Irvine would want an accomplished, high-level, well-connected individual as their commencement speaker. There is no doubt that Barack Obama is an extremely brilliant and accomplished man, having obtained his first Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 48.

Choosing Barack Obama for UC Irvine’s commencement speaker is problematic on a number of deeper levels, and invites serious concerns about Chancellor Michael V. Drake and the senior leadership at UC Irvine’s commitment to freedom, openness, and ethics. When a university quite literally has access to our children’s vulnerable minds, ethics become more than a fun thought experiment. ................

In 2008, he was a top recipient of political donations from the Wall Street corporations responsible for the Great Recession

He has failed to lead in the fight for campaign finance reform

He has dramatically expanded the George W. Bush administration’s drone warfare program

Obama has failed to make good on his pledge to close the lawless detention facility at Guantanamo Bay

Obama has expanded the Bush administration’s abusive NSA surveillance programs

Obama has stood by and failed to act in the face of 150,000 deaths in Syria

You don't actually expect intellectual consistency from liberals do you?