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Old 08-02-2008, 10:16 AM
Deckard
issue 37
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: South Wales
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Y'all are feisty here in St Petersburg!
Did anyone catch this?

Barack Obama heckled by members of a pan-African socialist group, the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, at a town hall meeting in Florida yesterday. Their message essentially being "What about the black community Obama?"


And here he is taking questions from the protestors at the end of his speech:


First... Wow. Way to get him elected, guys.

Second, Obama lapsing into a southern folksy voice came over as really condescending.

Third - apart from that, I thought he handled the heckling pretty damn well. I can only imagine how one of our politicians would have stumbled over it. I suspect anti-terror legislation would have been applied.