Glynnis MacNicol | Mediaite
President Obama has apparently reached the ‘can’t do anything right’ portion of his presidency. Last night at a fundraiser in New York City President Obama was loudly heckled by a group of people protesting over AIDS funding and DADT. It’s unclear how the protesters were allowed into the event, and why they weren’t ushered out once they started yelling, but the end result is a large group of people hollering at the President, which truth be told is a little unnerving. Does anyone recall this happening to President Bush?
The protesters held signs up saying “Obama broken promises KILL” and “no retreat, fund AIDS” and yelled “President Obama” so loudly and consistently Obama was forced to respond, something he did rather calmly one might add, saying that “you don’t need to yell” and noting that he had increased AIDS funding. Then he encouraged the DADT protesters to find a Republican event to yell at:
But hold on a second. But hold on a second. Think about — think about what happened in Congress two days ago where you got 56 Democrats voting to debate this issue, and zero Republicans. And as a consequence, some of those signs should be going up at the other folks’ events.
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