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Ya know, when I started this blog, it wasn’t really meant as a Bash Bush Blog. But the stakes are so high now, and he makes it so damn easy…I look forward to turning on Kerry after the current resident of 1600 gets the boot. But for now…there’s a democracy to save…<\/p>\n
First loyalty oaths must be signed<\/a> to see Cheney at a rally in a public high school, then journalists are forced to give their nationalities<\/a> to the campaign before being given credentials to cover events.<\/p>\n Now, wearing a Kerry-Edwards T-shirt will get you tossed out<\/a> of a Bush event all together. From Richard Leiby’s piece<\/a> in The Washington Post<\/i>:<\/p>\n The experiment: A college professor wears a Kerry-Edwards shirt to a rally for President Bush, then a Bush for President shirt to a John Kerry rally.<\/p>\n Result: Bush people make the subject remove his shirt, then give him the boot. The Kerry people don’t make a peep.<\/p>\n John Prather (pictured at right), a mild-mannered math prof at Ohio University’s Eastern Campus, says he carried out this one-man study a couple of weeks ago, attending both rallies in one day. “It really was to satisfy my own curiosity,” Prather, 38, told us. “It’s been my opinion that George Bush has stifled dissent . . . I think John Kerry doesn’t. In neither event was I a threat to anyone.” Yet, he says, at the Bush rally, “I was tailed the whole time.”<\/p><\/div>\n Welcome to George W. Bush’s Amerka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Blogged by Brad from the road…) Ya know, when I started this blog, it wasn’t really meant as a Bash Bush Blog. But the stakes are so high now, and he makes it so damn easy…I look forward to turning on Kerry after the current resident of 1600 gets the boot. But for now…there’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The question: Which presidential campaign better tolerates dissent? <\/p>\n