It's not enough that John McCain is running on a platform of continuing all of President Bush's disastrous policies - he has to imitate the Decider's worst practices as well.
On Monday, McCain was speaking in Denver at a public venue, a town-hall event described as "open to the public." Carol Kreck, a 61-year-old librarian, took that description seriously and so in the best American tradition of vigorous debate showed up with a homemade protest sign saying simply "MCCAIN=BUSH."
And got arrested for it.
Yes, she got a trespassing ticket at a public event held on public property. Something tells me that if she had held up a sign saying "I (heart) McCain" or "McCain 2008," she would have been left alone. Instead, the Secret Service and the Denver police swept in and removed this purveyor of sedition before she could pollute the minds of right-thinking Americans.
Is McCain's ego really go fragile that he has to be protected from anyone who might disagree with him? Or are his handlers afraid that he might have a flashback to his POW days in Vietnam and go on a rampage?
Or perhaps the McCain campaign wants to continue the Bush Administration's practice of keeping the president in a bubble, surrounded by sycophantic yes-men and free of any troublesome dissent or disagreement.
And we see what that has gotten us.
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