President Obama, who is having a hard enough time with the Republicans this election season, had to deal with putative supporters today in Connecticut.
As Obama launched into his stump speech at an arena in Bridgeport, a group of protesters began heckling him over funding for the global fight against AIDS.
“Excuse me … excuse me,” an irritated looking Obama said before he could finally talk over the shouting. “You’ve been appearing at every rally we’ve been doing. And we’re funding global AIDS (prevention). And the other side is not. So I don’t know why you think this is a useful strategy to take.”
Anti-AIDS activists have heckled Obama before.
As some protesters kept yelling — and presidential backers began changing pro-Obama slogans — Obama told his critics, “all right, all right, you guys have made your point, so let’s go … Come on, guys.”
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All the jobs lost under Bush are all blamed on Bush and not his Democratic congress and senate, including Pelossi, Reid, Frank etc…..
exactly shweks,
“the last 8 years we lost jobs”
we only lost jobs we gained while bush was in office with a republican congress when we lost it in 2008 thats when we started osing jobs
Obama only proved that he had a personal agenda he wanted to get to and that is why we don’t put inexperienced people who have not yet paid their dues to this country in office!
aries,
no, that proves we dont put socialists in office, because in the end socialists have their own personal agendas to get to
He is our president and as such desirves a modicum of respect. Praying for the peace of the land and its leaders is an established part of judaism. Like it or not president obama is the leader of our great country.