Obama Ponders - What Does "Free And Open To The Public" Mean?

BuckeyeStateBlog has a interesting post up today (cross-posted at Blue Hampshire) about how Team Obama shut-out a New Hampshire blogger who attempted to attend a Obama campaign event yesterday in Keene, New Hampshire simply because the blogger identified himself as a blogger to the campaign when he was signing in.

The Obama campaign had promoted the campaign event in Keene as "free and open to the public".

Free and open to the public?

Free and open to the public?

Free and open to the public?

Does saying it three times make it so?

Bloggers might not qualify as "press", but they sure as hell qualify as "the public".

We're just saying.