A small group of protesters is demonstrating outside the Virginia school where President Obama will give a speech to students, the Associated Press reports. Some are holding signs that say, “Mr. President, stay away from our kids!”
A conservative group called Public Advocate of the United States covered Wakefield High School grounds with signs bearing the same slogan yesterday, and announced on its web site it was preparing a protest for today.
The group said it would hand out “Don’t Tread On Me” flags and stickers to students to wear during Obama’s speech.
Public Advocate is a right-wing organization that opposes gay marriage, hate crimes legislation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Among its accomplishments it lists setting up “Kennedy Sobriety Checkpoints” to “to protect citizens against Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy” in 2006.
The group also gave a “Family Advocate Award” to Kenneth Gladney, the tea partier who claims he was beaten by SEIU members at a health care event in Missouri. The award has also gone to Carrie Prejean, Tom DeLay and John Ashcroft.
Late update: The White House press pool reports that some protesters along neighborhood held signs reading, “Children serve God, not Obama.”
