Questioner escorted from campaign event
February 8th, 2008 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |(Via Portland Press Herald.)
Clinton began his speech talking about a shopping excursion to L.L. Bean’s flagship store in Freeport and reminiscing about a trip to the store 25 years ago when he persuaded his wife to drive there at 1:30 a.m. to “test” whether it was really open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Shortly after Clinton began talking about how his wife is prepared to handle Iraq and global warming, a lone heckler shouted, “End the war now.”
“Would you like to make this speech? Sir, this is not your event, this is for Hillary,” Clinton said as the crowd booed the heckler and then cheered Clinton’s retort.
When the protester added that “the war is still going on,” Clinton responded, “That is because George Bush is still fighting it.”
The man was escorted out of the building by a lone police officer and private security guards.
Man, when did we lose the right to speak freely at a public event? I hope these actions were at the direction of an overzealous security contingent (the Secret Service, mind you) and local cops, not the Clinton campaign.
