On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Jay Honeck wrote:

and now, Jay, just imagine the prez coming to IOW for a couple of days,
shutting
down your airport, denying access to your plane (so you can't even wash
it) and
everybody (this means: you, Mary, your kids, your employees and your
guests) and
his dog coming to your hotel is bodysearched ... security, you know. don't
like
the idea?

Since so many are having trouble distinguishing the salient point of my
post, let me say it again. This time in super-sloooow-mooootion, for the
reading impaired:

John Edwards isn't the President. He isn't the Vice-President. He is
nobody but a run-of-the-mill Senator.

Um, no. He's the Democratic Party's canidate for VP, as of earlier this
month. He also happens to be a Senator, but seriously: if he got offed, it
would at least disrupt the Dem's political campaign. The whole point of
protection for canidates is to prevent disruption of the democratic
process, more or less.

I'm not even an American, for Dog's sake, and the above is obvious to
me...

Tell us: If your entire trip had been scuttled by a Shrub/Cheney TFR,
would you even have posted anything about it?

Brian.



I have no problem with giving the President of the United States the
tightest possible security. If George Bush had been in Des Moines, I would
have completely understood the treatment I received.

Giving a dime-a-dozen politician this kind of protection, however, is
patently absurd.