Wednesday, August 19, 2009

What If....

....John McCain had won the 2008 election? This speculation was prompted by the fact that at a recent Phoenix Presidential event, nearly 30 people showed up wearing loaded guns, including one man sporting an automatic rifle. Yesterday a caller to the Thom Hartmann show asked this question: "What if I, a black man, had shown up wearing a loaded gun to an event with President McCain? How long do you think it would be before I was tackled and shackled?" Thom's answer -- about 30 seconds.

Do you remember when it was President Bush in the White House, and certain people showed up to Presidential events wearing t-shirts that proclaimed they were anti-Bush? They were banned from those events. Led away. But that was different, of course. That was a white conservative Republican President. And we all know how dangerous political proclamation t-shirts are. Just look at the stats. All the people killed by t-shirts. It's scary.

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