There were mints sold about Bush, about Palin, but these don't belong on the shelf? Not surprisingly, UT pulls them from the shelves and we have a Chicago paper publishing the news?
Political satire is OK depending on who it's about. The pure definition of the first amendment.
Armstrong, who will be known henceforth as Mr. Free Speech, told the newspaper that pulling the mints off the shelves did not violate the First Amendment, because the mints were not "educational material."
In other words, Armstrong is a complete moron and is just making up random stuff in the name of Obama.
"With a book or something of that nature, then fine, but (the mints are) sort of a discretionary product they have," Armstrong told the News Sentinel. "It wasn't viewpoint-neutral. Very specifically insulting to the president."
We called Glenn Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee and boss of the widely read blog Instapundit.
"My first response is that there's no candy exception in the First Amendment," said Reynolds.
Where's Linda Bensel-Meyers when we need a comment on educational materials in Knoxville?