by Mark Silva
In this season of controversial honorary college degrees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton collected one today that few could dispute:
From Yale University, which conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on the woman who graduated from Yale's Law School 36 years ago.
She met her husband, former President Bill Clinton, there in 1970.
Unlike President Barack Obama, who was denied an honorary degree at Arizona State University this year because the commencement speaker's "body of work'' had not been fulfilled, and whose honorary degree at Notre Dame was disputed because he advocates abortion rights, Clinton's degree -- which came as a surprise to the public at a school that saves its honorary degrees for last-minute notice, and which also honored the writer, John McPhee, today -- was Yale squared, Yale honoring Yale's own.
(Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pictured receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Yale University commencement today. Photo by Douglas Healey / AP)
Comments
Wow.
That hit man BillyBob hired gets a second chance.
Headline in Yalie Daily:
"SECRETARY OF STATE GAROTTED; SUSPECT FLEES TO S&B TOMB"
It's good to know George W. has finally found work.
Posted by: ornery | May 25, 2009 10:38 PM