Obama Heckled, Leads Crowd In Pledge Of Allegiance

McClatchy reports on another interruption at a Barack Obama event:

A heckler sitting in the press section interrupted Barack Obama's opening remarks at a town hall meeting in Berea, Ohio, and forced the candidate to lead the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience of several thousands groaned with the heckling, but Obama waved them back and said then led the group in reciting the pledge.

Ben Smith has more:

A slightly odd moment at the beginning of Barack Obama's event in Berea, OH, when a man on the press riser -- apparently a photographer -- began loudly demanding that the crowd recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

The crowd began to chant, drowning the man out, but Obama -- perhaps sensing a moment of peril -- quickly shushed them, and led the crowd in the Pledge.

"We usually do an invocation and a pledge before we start," he said. "I don't know why we didn't, but this young man reminded us."

Obama was heckled last week for not focusing on African-American issues.

Comments

[flymic]

well between the pin and this... america seems to be demanding for solutions. snark

[DerekRC]

LOL!!!

It's hard to be unpatriotic when people keep calling you out.

[rinpochet]

You are implying that if you don't recite a pledge you are unpatriotic? And this is supposedly a free society?

Sounds more like an authoritarian society that says if you don't recite the pledge you are unpatriotic. Scary stuff. Would go over well with a fascist regime.

I don't recite the pledge or fly a flag but I am a super patriot. It is behavior that matters, not pins or flags.

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

That doesn’t work so well for idiots though.

[JLee]

Not too Messiah-like to be heckled, huh? Cuts the attack ads off at the legs.

[goldnchyl]

The haters are the only ones calling O that. He certainly never has referred to himself that way.

[JLee]

Of course not. It just struck me as funny that O gets heckled like twice right after McC's surreal attack ads, pretty much neutering the charge that he's... dunno, the Anti-Christ or some such BS.

[TheRebel82]

LOL that dumb heckler got OWNED!!!

[NickNas]

I heard it was KBAR...he left in tears.

[KSH]

Are you kidding me? Who was this idiot in the crowd?

[Bettysdad]

An idiot in the PRESS section.

Could be anyone in the MSM.

Pick the suspect of your choice.

[mexamerican]

wolf blizter?

[Ignorancedestroys]

Sean Hannity. That is my first choice. LOL

[Kynn]

Seriously?


It sounds like something Bill O' would send one of his interns out to do.

The intern would then meet him back at his hotel for a falfeling

[luckyoldson]

Want to bet it was either Fox, the Washington Times, or another of the right wing nutcases who are the only people to do something so silly?

[LiberTLover]

An idiot who didn't know that O says the Pledge of Allegiance before every session of the Senate. Boy they are getting desperate out there!