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Hard to believe this is more than 25 years old.  Even harder to believe that this looks like John McCain’s dream political rally.

Here is a sign that your campaign is coming apart at the seams.  At a rally at Iowa State University, the heart of “Red State Country”, your campaign starts booting out college students because they “didn’t look right“.  Now I’ll admit that the word “tolerance” makes me itch because it has been overused by the hypersensitive granola-eating wimps who want us all to join in a rousing chorus of Kumbaya every night, but turning away people from your own political rally because they “didn’t look right“?  If your campaign is so worried about hecklers that you have to canvass the crowd ahead of time to get rid of troublemakers whose only sin is “not looking right”, then how do you expect anyone to trust you long enough to let you lead the country?  What does “looking right” mean?  Is there a dress code for Republicans now?  Are you kicking out anyone who isn’t quite white right enough for you, Senator McCain?

So ya thought ya might like to go to the show.
To feel the warm thrill of confusion, that space cadet glow.
I got me some bad news for you, Sunshine.
Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel,
And he sent us along as a surrugate band.
We’re gonna find out where you fans really stand.
Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get ‘em up against the wall. — ‘Gainst the wall!
And that one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me.
Get him up against the wall. — ‘Gainst the wall!
And that one looks Jewish, and that one’s a coon.
Who let all this riffraff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint, and another with spots!
If I had my way I’d have all of ya shot.

- In the Flesh from Pink Floyd – The Wall