Does Romney get anything right? Kerry is not a candidate.

He is absolutely right, a candidate like him needs to be tasered,better yet tarred and feathered.

Are you kidding?

YOU ARE LAME!

What a lame-ass response.

I swear to GOD I'd like to just be in your lame face right now.

AS BAD AS THINGS ARE.....

THANK GOD THAT YOU ARE NOT THE PRESIDENT.

I am just breathless and stunned by your lame response.

RESIGN TODAY.

YOU FAILED AMERICA.

How many times now has he been called upon to respond to and explain?

I HOPE Mitt gets the GOP nomination. He's an absolute disgrace and disaster. And I hope his "happy pride day" flyer from 2002 gets a whole lotta attention.

the guy got taken down at the end of the center aisle.

watch the full video here:

http://video.nbc6.net/player/?id=157250

shows the beginning of the question all the way until he is taken outside in cuffs

fought for the right for this protestor to be Tased. It's what America is all about isn't it? Fight for the right ot be Tased?

I know that if I were protesting I would like to be Tased too. Too bad no one who disagrees with Bush can get near enough to question his allegiances to such mysterious clubs and organizations and then get Tased for it. What ever happed to "Equal Opportunity Tasing" for Christ's sake? What has America come to? Land of the Free and Home of the Tased...

Any foreigner seeing this sorry episode now can be positive that America has become a military State. Nauseating.

Considering he's a Republican, and will eventually be asked a number of objectionable questions, it's only a matter of time before someone is tasered at one of his rallies. This "don't tase the questioner" quote will make great "gotcha" material.

Before he was against it.

Kerry should intervene on this kids behalf. Granted, he can't legally do anything, but he can put pressure on the the cops to let this kid go.

This (foolish but innocent) student was manhandled for asking questions and causing a disturbance. He's probably not used to being taken down by the police, and his physical response was a reaction to the police's unjustified aggression.

The police do not have the right to manhandle a person that is not causing a direct threat to himself or others.

Also, isn't it a human instinct to resist unprovoked violence?

It seems like a total flaw in the police-citizen relationship. A cop can kick your ass for no reason, but if you try to stop him from doing it, you're in for a lot more than a few bruises. Why do we trust the police more than we trust ourselves?

...and I'm still not sure what happened. Obviously the "victim" was being removed by the police. But was he an innocent victim of police brutality or an attention-seeking protester who made more of a fuss than he needed to in order to gain sympathy? All of the cries of "help me" seemed a bit exaggerated. The guy wasn't being carted off to Guantanemo, but you wouldn't know that based on his actions. At the same time, though, I never saw whatever triggered the police to start moving him outside. Did they have a reason at all, or was it just an irrational reaction to somebody who was too loud and too agitated and spoke too long? One of the biggest problems with the home video era is that we get stories, but we don't get the whole story. Something happened before the video started, and we don't know what it was. What we see on the video is confusing. I don't imaging that Kerry's view was any less confusing. In fact, it was probably more so.

I stand by my previous statement that the words, "I beg your pardon! Please take your hands off this gentleman at once!" are not difficult to utter, nor to understand. If Pretty Lady can utter them in a manner which produces results, a tall and imposing figure of Authority standing on a podium in front of a microphone should have no trouble at all in producing them, to practical effect.

Instead of asking Mitt to respond to the incident, it would be a lot more fun to ask Giuliani, whose partner was the unfortunate Bernard Kerik, who was on the board of Taser International and made $5.5 million in stock profits.

Taser=Kerick=Giuliani Partners=war profiteering=greed=bad judgement.

So much more entertaining than a Mitt head-scratcher.

If you don't color within the lines, and attempt a protest outside the established parameters of protest, this is exactly what you get. This is, and has been, the state of America for the last 50 years. We are just seeing it revealed more often because we live in a video era. If this had happened 15 years ago, the news paper headlines would read "Unruly deranged man removed from forum after threatening Senator, charges are pending." This is more than an issue of the bizarre Orwellian tactics of the police/state to quash dissent, it is what Noam Chomsky points out is the typical reaction of any manufactured authority, to anyone who raises his head out of the sand and questions that authority.

Mitt's response is also telling. Why is it considered normal, in a two way discussion, for a questioner to be given a time limit and the questioned not? Why is a questioner that covers many topics and goes over the time limit considered "crazy," rambling," or "unruly" and the same behavior is typical in most politician's responses to questions?

If only.

jebldmm:

"All of the cries of "help me" seemed a bit exaggerated. The guy wasn't being carted off to Guantanemo..."

Perhaps, but that may become an increasingly difficult thing for arrestees and witnesses to discern.

Finally we get a chance to look at her latest attempt at universal healthcare (brought to you by your favorite large insurance company/Hillraier donor), and Salon doesn't even mention it in the last 24 hours? Odd odd odd