McCain = Bush = Censorship

The McCain Campaign Messes With the Wrong Librarian

There seems to be a communication breakdown in the McCain campaign. The memo outlining the effort to distance his campaign from George W. Bush’s policies and tactics wasn’t forwarded to event organizers and security detail.

At a town hall meeting event in Denver on Tuesday, a sixty year-old librarian was cited for trespassing and removed from the property by four police officers at the request of McCain campaign organizers. The protester, Carol Kreck was not only removed from the event and cited, she was threatened with arrest if she returned.

Perhaps most amazing is how the McCain security team pressed on despite Kreck’s passivity and the presence of at least two video cameras. Kreck or any other visible protester had yelled or chanted anything at all.

Kreck’s message itself offers an interesting political and social question: what if Kreck’s sign read McCain = Reagan? Would she have been escorted off the property or given a seat in the front row of the event? The idea that Republicans are aware of Bush’s inescapable and soiled legacy is well supported by the fact (yes, fact) that such sentiment would have been permitted, welcomed and even coveted.