Posted on 03/28/2008 11:16:42 AM PDT by weegee
Mandi Hamlin, right, who claims a Transportation Security Administration agent forced her to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane demonstrates what she was asked to do by the TSA during a news conference Thursday, March 27, 2008, in Los Angeles, as her attorney Gloria Allred looks on. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left is is checked by security personnel prior to boarding an airplane, Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Former US Vice-President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore addresses media representatives in New Delhi on March 15, 2008. Amid fears the bitter battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could tear the Democratic Party apart, some are hoping a heavyweight umpire like Gore may step into the ring. (AFP/File/Raveendran) Fri Mar 28, 12:13 PM ET
New York Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton gestures while speaking during a campaign stop in Mishawaka, Indiana March 28, 2008. (Frank Polich/Reuters)
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi is seen on March 19. A delegation of US senators told Kadhafi that US firms were keen to work in the North African country, particularly in gas, oil and infrastructure projects, Libyan news agency JANA said on Thursday. (AFP/File/Walter Astrada)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., waves to the crowd after his speech at the Soldiers and Sailors Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, March 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., looks at a drawing that Martin Kovlik-Haas presented to him as he met with supporters at the Soldiers and Sailors Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, March 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., stands with actor Sean Astin, right, and Bruce Sweitzer, from the United Auto Workers union, Friday, March 28, 2008, during a campaign rally at Mishawaka High School in Mishawaka, Ind. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks to members of her staff on board her campaign charter plane shortly before take-off from Washington's Reagan National Airport, Friday, March 28, 2008. At left is aide Huma Abedin. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., campaigns at Forsyth Tech Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., Thursday, March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Former President Bill Clinton reacts as he listens to the crowd cheer as he campaigns for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at Dickenson College in Carlisle, Pa., Thursday, March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., rallies the crowd at a campaign rally at Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville, N.C., Thursday, March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, arrive for a joint news conference in Denver, Thursday, March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) holds a news conference with Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney (both not pictured) at the Million Air F.B.O. in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 27, 2008. REUTERS/Ramin Rahimian (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama listens to Reverend Raphael Warnock during a service at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church in January 2008. Obama has tried to distance himself from Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama denounced the preacher's allegations that the September 11 attacks were brought on by American "terrorism. "(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand) Sat Mar 15, 6:54 AM ET
Conan (L) the Chihuahua, joins Buddhist priest Joei Yoshikuni (R) in prayer at Jigenin temple in Naha, Okinawa (AFP/Toru Yamanaka) Sun Mar 23, 11:10 PM ET
"TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!"
I like the best picture the best.
"Do YOU feel lucky, PUNK?"
So Obama not only goes to the church, but gets a special front row seat ? And he doesn’t know what his pastor is saying?
"What's the word? Thundabird! What's the price? Fiddy, twice!"
Can anyone explain why TSA staff are wanding McCain for a private flight? And why did I see these same sort of tarmack photos for Mitt Romney but I have never seen such a shot of Obama or Clinton?
Is there REALLY the fear that a major party candidate to be our next President could hijack a plane and do damage?
Hill's coats are getting necessarily longer...she's now almost in Johnny Cash territory.
Either it’s a photo-op, i.e. “Look what even I, the high and mighty John McCain, have to go through on my private flight.” or...uhm...have you seen The Manchurian Candidate?
Probably wouldn’t get a bucket of cow piss for the whole lot of em.
Go on, take them all to a flea or farmers market. Bet you couldn’t get squat for the whole bunch.
What good are they in all reality?
Since it is hosted at Yahoo, I don't see any vioation.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) makes his second guest appearance on ABC's talk and entertainment program, "The View," set for telecast March 28, 2008. Obama is pictured with co-hosts (L-R) Whoopie Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck in this publicity photograph, after the taping in New York City March 27. REUTERS/Steve Fenn/DISNEY/ABC TELEVISION GROUP/Handout. NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
Your editorial comment was appropriate.
“Jerks on Parade”
I don’t see it as a photo op. I saw several different stops worth of these kind of photos of Romney earlier in the campaign.
Seems to me that it should be done BEFORE bringing a candidate onto the tarmack. They are sitting ducks for a sniper out there.
And as we had a highway sniper incident this week (possibly aprehended) it is a legitimate concern.
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