Remember watching John McCain handle the Code Pinkos at the Republican convention? (Hooray!  Godaddy fixed their linking mechanism!)  Apparently Oblablah doesn't think he has the intestinal fortitude to face that possible reality.  [Hat tip:  Michelle Malkin]

"Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally—or a McCain rally or a Nader rally—justify taking a little off the top of Americans' most fundamental rights?

A UMW spokeswoman says that the Obama campaign required the sign-and-banner ban. That campaign tells us that the ban is for "security" reasons. But a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, says that the service has no objection to signs at rallies, provided that no "part of the sign could be used as a weapon"—e.g., a heavy metal pole or a sharpened stick. Finally, the McCain campaign tells us, "We encourage people to make signs at our events."

Recently, he told his followers to "get in their face". 

"In Elko, Obama tried to anticipate his critics and called on the crowd of about 1,500 to sharpen their elbows, too.

"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said."

I wrote to friends recently and said, "It's like Sarah Palin disappeared after the convention!  Why aren't we hearing about her.  One pal, in Philadelphia, wrote back to tell me, "She was just here and drew a crowd of 10,000", which is saying something in predominantly Democrat Pennsylvania.  She also told me friends of hers went to the rally, but didn't get in due to rowdy Obama supporters outside doing just that:  getting in their face! 

So where does that leave us?  Facing a gestapo-like regime if he's elected?  I say we should not take the chance.  If you're burdened with "White Guilt",  [http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031436/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222551392&sr=1-25  Dadgum links at Godaddy stopped working again!  grrrrrr]   I say "GET OVER IT!"