[Minn]

In retrospect, this was a set-up, and the guy with his foot on her head was a plant.

An employee of Paul, that has issued an apology, is a MoveOn plant?

[Smokin' Joe]

Let me put this in precise terms. Had I been there, and many I know, the person would have had need of medical treatment.

This is a perfect setup in that the reaction is supposed to be a softening of security, which makes the principal vulnerable.

Hopefully the people around the candidate won't fall for that crap.

Watch "Cops" sometime and get back to me on the whole thing.

Now, I can't say the foot on the head was good theater, but the person doing that didn't stomp their head, they just put their foot there.

This gives them the opportunity to know what the person is doing while they look for a second threat if they are a professional.

As for an apology, issuing apologies is damnear a kneejerk reaction to unseemly incidents when the court of public opinion is involved, and often those apologies are unwarranted. This is already being spun as an attack on a poor defenseless person in the crowd, not someone who ran up after the candidate from behind. Sure they are sorry this happened--it;s bad press, whether or not it is deserved by the campaign.

Was the person who put their foot on the head an employee of the campaign? Link please.