Hecklers Pester President Obama During Coakley Senate Election Speech

by Joe Coscarelli | 4:30 pm, January 17th, 2010

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Incessant hecklers forced President Barack Obama‘s speech to a halt in Massachusetts on Sunday, as he showed his support for Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley. It sounded more like today’s NFL playoff game than a political rally. Check out the video below!

In the run-up to Tuesday’s highly contested special Senate election, Democrats have appeared not only unsure, but flat out nervous. The latest polls have Republican Scott Brown ahead in the polls, while precedence in Massachusetts may give Democrats a glimmer of hope.

After the crowd sang a special rendition of “Happy Birthday” to First Lady Michelle Obama, the president took the stage to make his case for what would become the crucial 60th vote for Democrats in the Senate. As Obama spoke, an unintelligible man shouted from the crowd. The rally erupts in applause, possibly to drown out the disruption, or as security removed the offender. More interruptions followed. Check out the clip:

germ

Wow, people are stupid. That is not the time to speak out against whatever cause they had. Both sides do it, but that doesn’t make it right.

I can only discern from the speech that Pres. Obama was able to get in that he has not been paying attention to the MA election at all.

“You need a politician that has walked the walk” – did he mean meeting with lobbyists for a campaign fundraiser, knocking down a reporter that was trying to ask a valid question, keeping an innocent man in jail for years so she didn’t have to account for the mistake, or flat out lying during the campaign?

If that is the walk Pres. Obama wants, I will choose someone with a new walk.
TfT

Well, at least you have a clip to show us. In SOP the networks carried Coakley and Obama but didn’t do the same for Brown. Now, I watched his rally on-line since the networks decided to ignore him. Guess what? He wasn’t heckled…he had OVERFLOW crowds (Obama couldn’t reach full capacity at the Coakley venue), and yet CNN, MSNBC and FNC all ignored his rally.
ChrisNH

A Liberal gets heckled in Massachusetts! The president, no less! I really think what tipped this in Brown’s favor is the ‘deal’ struck with Labor unions so they’d get excused from the health-care tax. There are a ton of Liberal Democrats who are NOT members of a union, and Obama has pretty much thrown them under a bus.
http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

Seems that during the Bush years any of these flare-ups at Republican rallies were hailed as evidence of a thriving democracy. Where is the similar praise now?
BJL411

“It is unpatriotic and unAmerican to not support your President!”

Sincerely,

Rush Limbaugh and Fox Snooze, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
BJL411

MartiniShark says:
January 17, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Seems that during the Bush years any of these flare-ups at Republican rallies were hailed as evidence of a thriving democracy. Where is the similar praise now?

ACTUALLY, ALL OF BUSH’S APPEARANCES (let me repeat that incase dense heads didn’t get it, ) ALL OF BUSH’S APPEARANCES were prescreened and the crowds were filled with nothing but Bush supporters.

Like the speech he gave (if I recall) in a tent in Pennsylvania and a Repub supporter-couple who’s son was killed in Iraq drove for miles to get to the event, they had an invitation to attend. But because they wanted to ask Bush about why/what their son died for, they were refused entry to the event.

multiply that by thousands….
timzank

Wonder why Martha’s DSC rep didn’t just knock ‘em down? hmmm…
timzank

BJL411, you are grossly misinformed, entirely misguided, relentlessly sophomoric, increasingly annoying, and, I would guess destined to remain in your parents basement until they die and you inherit the house.
Fidoohki

Anyone think that it is terribly convienent that hecklers were able to get into the crowd
of the President yet on all those other times he has spoken at these type of events
they didn’t? Given the dirty tricks already flying around having a few liberals try to reinact
Joe Wilson’s ‘YOU LIE!” moment would be par for the course.
Pat Doherty

BJL411

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/04/bush-heckled-during-july-4-speech/

That took less than 10 seconds to find.
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Guo/100000649950349 James Guo

good one
Leonard Gump

3 days short of an entire year and the Kenyan FINALLY steps into a church. But then, he wasn’t there to worship, he was there to be worshiped.
Eshvish

Thuggery is the a quintessential characteristic of a teabagger. The cancer was removed quickly enough like a sordid Code Pink plague except that this tumor labels himself “patriot.” Moving along…
m

Hey, you guys are defending Bush. That’s satisfactory enough for me! HAHA!
Facebook User

Eshvish, ‘Thuggery’ is not a tea-bagger tactic, but it is a tactic of the Democrats. Did you read about teh Black Panthers ‘patrolling’ voting sites in Philly during te election? Or the SEIU busing in members from out of state who started roughing up the crowds at ‘Tea-bag’ rallies? ‘Change is acoming’ indeed!
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