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ANN ALTHOUSE: Things that you?d better not have on you if you want to walk through Library Mall on ?

By Glenn Reynolds

ANN ALTHOUSE: Things that you’d better not have on you if you want to walk through Library Mall on Tuesday afternoon. “Ah, but you need to be respectful and hear out what the President says, which is ? I assume ? that you really need to vote for Democrats in November. That’s the message. It’s nothing loftier than that. It’s a big political rally, snarling Madison traffic ? on our narrow isthmus ? blocking passage through the center of campus, and depriving us of our computers and our freedom of expression.” Plus, from the comments: “A person doesn’t have to dislike a president to wish that he’d stay home.” I’m not sure what I think about this. Presidents live in enough of a bubble already. On the other hand, if this degree of security is really necessary — which I tend to doubt — then Presidents ought to think twice.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 26, 2010 (boomark / email).