61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Joined: 12/31/69
#161 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 11:05am
...for carrying an "offensive sign." What did it say? Oh, you need to see it for yourself.
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Updated On: 7/8/08 at 11:05 AM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 11:10amWell, I guess she certainly learned the meaning of "Shhh!"
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#2re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 11:27am
It was a political rally in on public property as I understand it. That being the case, she should initiate legal action in federal court against all the parties whom conspired to have her evicted.
I wonder what the ACLU's take on this is.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 11:39am
So "McCain = Bush" is offensive?
I guess it depends on which Bush McCain is being compared to. It isn't like these guys have a problem with Bushes or bushes of any kind. Indeed, a fondness for Bush/bush seems to be an essential part of being a Republican.
Is there now an anti-shrubbery/foliage/pubic hair branch of the Republican party?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
Namaste
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/08
#4re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:29pmThe smell of fascism is in the air!
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#5re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:32pmIt will be an interesting convention- McCain needs to distance himself from Bush's incompetence but they will need to celebrate his 8 years in the presidency. I can't imagine how they will do both.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:39pmThey'll do it the way they celebrated Jesse Helms' career of racism and hatred. They'll find all kinds of fascinating euphemisms for it. The Convention should be a real laughfest.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#7re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:40pmI have the same question as the librarian... why is this offensive to Republicans?
What great ones do the less will prattle of
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#8re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:43pm
Because they want to try to make the average voter forget that the Republicans have been responsible for these 8 horrible years.
I heard a McCain speech the other day. If you didn't know better, you'd think he was the outsider who wanted to go clean up the mess that "those guys" have created.
#9re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:46pmShe meant Cindy.
#10re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:48pm
Perception. Perception. Perception.
It's all about managing perception... for all sides, of course.
Did you catch this video of the High School kid asking him about his age?
I love McCain's reaction:
"Thanks for the question you little jerk. Draft him!"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F2zx3-0zOPs
Classy reaction.
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:50pmMcCain has a pair of turtles named Cuff and Link. He can't even find original names for his pets, how's he going to distance himself from decades of Republican horror?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#12re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 12:53pm
"McCain has a pair of turtles named Cuff and Link."
Those are his parents, hon.
#13re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:37pmwere any signs allowed at the event? is there footage from the event itself to determine whether any outside signs were allowed in?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#14re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:40pmApparently signs reading "papalovesmambo is an irrelevant apologist for the last eight years" were disallowed.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#15re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:43pmi saw one that said "roquat's obsession with papalovesmambo makes him almost as pathetic as the fenchurch mpd collective" but the person holding that one was secret service.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#16re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:44pm
There's something that scares me about the video that JoeKv99 linked. If this were in Eastern Europe I'd say that McCain wanted to be a dictator and seems to want to do to the country what Lukashenko did to Belarus - turn it into totalitarian state. But I thought America valued Democracy, personal freedom and freedom of expression.
In the second video linked by BigFatBlonde it just seemed like McCain was making a good joke and showing his sense of humor. That first video did not look like a joke.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#17re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from McCain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:46pm
Shouldn't McCain be more concerned about the disorganization and infighting rife in his campaign?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#18re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:50pmyeah, because i heard he was sitting upstairs with a pair of ball bearings in his hand watching the crowds outside through a telescope and personally choosing who got in and who didn't while muttering about stolen strawberries.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#19re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:59pm
yeah, because i heard he was sitting upstairs with a pair of ball bearings in his hand watching the crowds outside through a telescope and personally choosing who got in and who didn't while muttering about stolen strawberries.
It's important for a President to be concerned about National Interests and American property. Ball bearings represent the American worker and American industry. Strawberries are important American crops that must be guarded with the best chemical pesticides, fungicides, and fertilized with the best sewage sludge America has to offer.
#2061 year old commie terrorist tickled & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:01pm
he can also prove with geometric precision that krissysim is an alien.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Updated On: 7/8/08 at 02:01 PM
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#21re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:03pmI like the dude in the caterpillar costume.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#22re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:05pm
KrissySim, I actually thought the same thing too, at first.
It was the "Draft Him" remark that eventually made me uncomfortable.
I don't know about you, but with the bodies piling up... drafting our children isn't very funny.
To me, there was something very menacing about exacting revenge on high school kid because of the immature way he asked a question.
Even if only in "jest."
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 7/8/08 at 02:05 PM
#23re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:07pmThey should only draft boys who don't get invited to parties.
KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#24re: 61 year old librarian ticketed & ejected from mccain event
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:08pmYou have a point. But my video for some reason cut out at the end and I didn't hear or see the last bit. Looks like I missed something.
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