All About McCain

[Strangler Lewis]

I could be wrong, but doesn't the Buchanan response simply repeat what Palin said on the subject? Maybe that's the best answer we can get. (And I know you wouldn't like it if she wore an Ahmadinejad button if he ever visited Washington.)

Also, I'm not sure that the response to the librarian issue is satisfactory. Perhaps our board librarians can tell us if getting asked such questions by one's mayor or university president is a sad reality of the job. Plus, after continuing in her job, the librarian was fired. Not convinced on that one.

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Perhaps our board librarians can tell us if getting asked such questions by one's mayor or university president is a sad reality of the job. Plus, after continuing in her job, the librarian was fired. Not convinced on that one.

I'm not a librarian but I voted on a tenure issue for the librarians at the University of Wisconsin and also sat on a review board which reinstated a fired librarian. At many university libraries, librarians can earn tenure, even though they mostly do not teach. Tenure is a license to tell the truth. Librarians need tenure to allow them to do their job, which, in part, is to put controversial materials on the shelves.