Captain Oblivious

The Albuquerque Journal reports that people looking for tickets to a rally being held by the GOP (featured speaker: none other than Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United State) were required to sign a statement endorsing the Bush/Cheney campaign. I'm trying to think of something clever to say here, but it would just be redundant. Nothing I can possible say about this could make it look any more pathetic than it already is. So read the article. Then decide if these are the people who should be running the country. And if the answer isn't a resounding, "No!" ask yourself this: Why do you hate the first amendment?

Shoot, I couldn't help it, I had to get snarky. The best part of this: they're keeping out people they might be able to persuade; one of the people quoted in the article explicitly said she hasn't made up her mind yet. After being told she's not welcome, I bet she has now...