Love them sheetmetal workers.

Here's a bit of info on that guy that interrupted Kerry's speech yesterday:

Kerry's remarks were enthusiastically greeted by roughly 650 of the party's
faithful invited to the event.
But the event was briefly interrupted as soon
as Kerry took the stage when a Foster, Ky., man seated nearby in a section --
reserved mostly for veterans and labor union members -- stood and began
shouting.
"You said you committed atrocities!" yelled Michael L. Russell.
Russell was quickly put in a headlock and forced down by a sheet metal
worker seated next to him, then escorted outside by police and Secret Service
agents.
He later complained that his neck was hurt by the man who put him in
a headlock.

Here's what Kerry had to say:

As Russell was led away, Kerry said, "I have nothing but the greatest
respect for people's right to express their opinion. I might add it's a terrific
tactic of the Bush team. They love to disrupt. They love to interrupt. They
don't want America to hear the truth."

That's a fine point. But I think it would be maybe more effective to point this out:

Republicans doling out tickets to the free event were limiting them to
people with a record of supporting the GOP— or to others willing to sign a
statement saying they support President Bush's re-election...White said the
pledge made sense to weed out people who might shout Cheney down or otherwise
disrupt his speech.

And now we hear this:

The upcoming Presidential Debates hit a potential snag today when President
Bush stated that John Kerry would be required to sign a loyalty oath before
participating in the upcoming debates. In an interview with Matt Lauer, Bush
made it clear that no "excemptions" would be made to the loyalty oath
requirement established by his campaign for all RNC campaign event attendees.
However, when pushed on the issue by Lauer, Bush left the door open by
suggesting he may be willing to waive the oath if Teresa Heinz Kerry were to
volunteer to participate in lieu of her husband. When asked to elaborate, Bush
stated he did not wish to create any divisions between his platform and his
favorite "condiminiment."

Okay, that's not actually true, but this is:

The Washington Post on Wednesday reported unnamed Bush campaign officials
saying that Bush's negotiating team wanted to opt out of the Oct. 8
question-and-answer session with undecided voters at Washington University in
St. Louis. The officials said that the team, led by former Secretary of State
James A. Baker III, was concerned members of the audience could be partisan. The
audience is to be chosen by the Gallup Organization.