Code Pink protests in offices of Obama, McCain

About ten Code Pink members staged demonstrations in the Senate offices of presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama to protest their support of a Wall Street bailout package. 

The protesters flopped across the floor and office furniture of McCain's reception area shortly after noon, chanting, “Bailout over my dead body.”

{mosads}The protesters stopped their obstruction after U.S. Capitol Police warned that they would be arrested for disorderly conduct.

“McCain is pushing this bill,” said Tighe Barry, a film and TV prop man from Santa Monica, Calif., and a member of the liberal anti-war group.

Barry said McCain’s office refused to give him a copy of the Wall Street rescue package, which the Senate is scheduled to vote on Wednesday evening.

“Is that transparency?” Barry said.

The protesters said they decided to get back off the floor to avoid arrest.

“Have you ever been arrested?” said one demonstrator. “It’s not pleasant being in a cell."

The Code Pink members, singing “No bailout,” began marching to Obama’s office in the Hart building at 12:45 p.m., followed by a media train of several television cameras, boom mikes, photographers and videographers.