From: "Randy H" 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>
> "Randy H"  wrote in message
> news:411e1bba$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Reading some of the quotes is interseting, too:
> >
> > I wanted them to see that the president was supposed to be working for
all
> > Americans.
>
> At campaign rallies the President is not acting in his official capacity
as
> President, but as a CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE.
>
So what?
>
> > Even if I didn't agree with his policies, I could still show my
> > children how elections and politics work.
>
> He could have shown them this by taking them to a Kerry campaign rally, so
> this sounds like a completely made up story, or an ass who was hoping
> something like this would happen so he could get on the news.
>
>

How do you know that he didn't/hasn't? You don't. Red Herring.

> >
> > I waited in line, picked up my Bush tickets and waited in line to enter
> the
> > park to hear the president. When I got up to the front of the line, I
was
> > grabbed by security, pushed to the side (in front of my children and
> > Republican friends) and my ticket was ripped. They said, "We
don't like
> your
> > pin, so get out of here."
> >
>
> Based upon his partisan actions and statements leading up to this ALLEGED
> event, I don't give the writer ANY credibility as to accurately describing
> the incident (assuming any of this really happened and isn't just
completely
> made up).  If this guy was truthfully just trying to let his daughters get
a
> gander at the President, any rational person any merely polite person
> wouldn't have worn a Kerry pin.  What an ass.  If this incident happened,
> I'd say he got exactly what he was hoping to cause to happen.
>

Speculation on your part-and pretty poor at that.

>
> >
> > in America we have the right to free speech. We have the
> > First Amendment, but that was blatantly violated.
> >
>
> The guys an even bigger ass trying to assert the above with a straight
face.
> Either that or he's an idiot.  Maybe he's both.  Nobody said he didn't
have
> the right to wear his Kerry pin, but the people at the campaign rally have
a
> right to admit whomever they want.  It is a PRIVATE event, not a PUBLIC
> GOVERNMENT event.
>

So you approve of the campaign worker's bhevaior. Figues-seems you and he are
cut from the same cloth.

>
> >
> >  I didn't even say anything. My daughters don't
> > understand why this happened.
>
> Some day the will come to realize Dad is a small minded individual
> desperately trying to get his 15 minutes of fame, even at the expense of
his
> own daughters.
>

You hope that's the case. As Gene would say, Only in the fullness of time will
we know what happens. But as for now, it doesn't paint a very pleassant picture
of the kinds of in-duh-viduals who the Bush Campaign sucker to volunteer^W^W^Wemploy.

>
> > They thought in America people could express
> > themselves without repression."
> >
>
> In America you don't have the right to come into somebody else's home,
club,
> party, unless you are invited.  People have the right to associate with
> whomever they please, to the exclusion of others at PRIVATE (i.e., NON
> GOVERNMENT) functions.
>
> Maybe we should show up at this guys house wearing some Bush pins and then
> demand to come in to hear what he has to say.  You don't think he would
try
> and repress our speech do you.

Then where are the terms and conditons of this private event?

>
> Gary
>
>

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