Obama Speech Interrupted By Occupy Protesters In New Hampshire (VIDEO)

Protesters reportedly with the Occupy Wall Street movement delayed the start of President Obama's speech in Manchester, New Hampshire Tuesday, chanting over the president as he took the podium.

"Mr. President, over 4,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested…" they started shouting, according to Mediaite.

ABC News reports that a paper relaying their entire intended statement was passed around to reporters:

"Over 4000 peaceful protesters have been arrested. While bankers continue to destroy the American economy. You must stop the assault on our 1st amendment rights. Your silence sends a message that police brutality is acceptable. Banks got bailed out. We got sold out."

The president's supporters, however, quickly cut the demonstrators off with a counter chorus of "Obama, Obama," allowing him to start his speech and eventually make note of the display.

"Families like yours, young people like the ones here today -- including the ones who were just chanting at me -- you're the reason that I ran for office in the first place," Obama said later.

Obama is in the key primary state of New Hampshire, which has been mobbed by GOP presidential candidates seeking to topple him come November, to continue his push for aspects of his jobs bill -- particularly the extension of payroll tax cuts.

"If we don't act, taxes will go up for every single American, starting next year. And I'm not about to let that happen," Obama told the audience.

HuffPost profiled the Occupy New Hampshire movement and one of its members, 68-year-old retiree Janet Kelly, in October.

 

Comments

[headkat1]

07:49 PM on 11/30/2011

Obama sounds as if he's on our side...and all the time he's got his agenda to push on us....who the heck needs "Obamacare"? I grew up in Canada where we had nationalized healthcare and it's scary if you should come down with something serious and have to wait your turn to see Specialists...Even some in his circle got waivers for that one! Who needs to hear empty promises and his big empty smiles??

[vigoddess]

05:24 PM on 11/30/2011

The protesters are right.
The President stands in the middle of the same people that
brought him into the White House, and as a constitutional
lawyer, they ask for protection under the law as they have
a right as the civil rights movement had a right. He offers
them the same thing Congress gives him - nothing.
The 99% are more important than the banks or the
corporations or contributions to polticians. Scott Olsen,
a two time return to Iraq veteran; a wonderful young man,
has been victimized by violence by a political hack Portland,
California mayor who allowed the police force to crack his
brain as if he was a criminal. The President should have
stepped in right then and there to call in the Justice Dept.,
FBI to stop it. Is a campaign speech more important than
ruining this young man's life for what?
He was just doing the job for Congress, the Senate, and
the Supreme Court, and the President, because that's
where people have to go today.
To the streets.

[headkat1]

11:54 PM on 11/27/2011

Finally! Something that "occupy Wall St" has done right! It inturrupted Obama's speech....lol...sorry, couldn't help seeing some humor in this....are we now to "occupy" something every time we have a problem? Is this what our children should emulate?? Just wondering...

[vigoddess]

05:28 PM on 11/30/2011

who else is there?
Do you have anyone in mind who has the courage or the
guts to fight for you?
Forget about the Republicans. They are protecting the 1%
Ditto for the Democrats.
Same for the Supreme Court.
Throw in the cartoon candidates for office.
Who is there?
Everyone with an issue that means something to them and no one is
out there doing a damn thing but these people.

[dmf777777]

12:46 PM on 11/25/2011

It time for Obama to just go away for a while. The American people will fix it. Maybe he could go up to camp David or take an extended vacation back to Hawaii. He reminds me of the guy who know nothing but keeps hanging over your shoulder trying to help while your trying to get something done. He just needs to go on and get out of the way and let the people that know how to fix it do their job.

[headkat1]

11:57 PM on 11/27/2011

dmt7,
I agree.....more can be done by the right people than Obama can looking for the right "czar" to tell him how....

[vigoddess]

05:30 PM on 11/30/2011

Who is that?
Newt Gingrich with his three wives and half a million
dollar bill at Tiffanys?
The only ones doing anything are the occupiers and
that's it.

[HarmonTerr]

09:49 AM on 11/25/2011

Occupy Obama's head.....nothing else is.

[barryschwartz123]

10:29 AM on 11/25/2011

Occupy the UN, for a real change!

[HarmonTerr]

10:44 AM on 11/25/2011

Get rid of the UN for permanent change.

[blb0027]

12:35 AM on 11/26/2011

Not that I like the UN but occupy the un and they will get shot. Period. They won't do that because they couldn't bs their way through the results like they did with the pepper spray.

[Fochik]

03:35 PM on 11/24/2011

i am only #vote2012 4 who-ever @Anonymous is voting 4 in #2012Vote the games are over #GOP

[specmark]

02:53 PM on 11/24/2011

OWS Support, Can it be Swept Up, Away?

Email

We probably expect the OWS movement to either be out of steam by spring, or, possibly, engage even more voices, pick up momentum. It sure feels that some sectors in some election strategies may to seek co opt of this energy, this growing force that is yet with us. I am sure that people from every political stripe may seek to maneuver these anxious voices to their agenda. For the life of them, they would have to be really good to pull this off. It will be interesting to see what Obama does here. He knows that these people speak for the many -- and as bad as his numbers have been, he is astute enough to know how he got to where is is.

I feel that there will be others out there -- even center-right candidates, who may don some independent wool and swoop down and invite the OWS people to camp with them, somehow. Even the Tea bagged have made some moves, which is about as awkward as Ava Braun creeping into Stalin's tent. We do not take well to third parties, yet this is one that would be strong in its offering to split a major party, not unlike in 1968, when Wallace ran, giving Nixon a shoe in victory.

The most dramatic development would be if the OWS people somehow would find results -- before November. Then, we'd see some real action.

[vigoddess]

05:33 PM on 11/30/2011

Without schmaltzy long winded talk,
The one thing the Occupy movement did was get the Banks
to stop charging more fees, which is more than the U.S.
government ever did.

[Martha Fair]

01:44 PM on 11/24/2011

Here is the difference between the OWS and the Teabaggers. The Teabaggers were never arrested or pepper sprayed because they were telliing the politicians and the sold out corpocracy what they wanted to hear. The OWS tells it like it really is and that is why they are NOT liking it and also why they are pepper spraying them and arresting them. The teabaggers are just Republicans paid off by the Koch Bros. The OWS are people that are mad as hell and they are not taking it anymore from either of the political parties. The politicians are part of the problem and not part of the solution...this is something the OWS people understand where the teabaggers do not. It has been my observation that most of the teabaggers are not too bright.

[specmark]

02:56 PM on 11/24/2011

Martha, you are right there. The T- baggers are flat and have been co-opted, resold and deposited, much as a $4.00 Tijuana prostitute. Like a bad cold, they have grown old, and gone.

[franksnmail]

03:19 PM on 11/24/2011

Still clueless and out of touch "Martha", too bad the left only has one opinion - WRONG

[JMKeynes]

03:47 PM on 11/23/2011

Do Republican right wingers really want to start labelling OWS as rapists? What do we really know about the accused? Were they paid by rightwingers? How involved were they in the movement and for how long? What are we saying about the female OWS protesters? Are they rapists too?

Since we're attaching labels so carelessly here's some for you:

Republicans are money launderers, sex offenders, perjurers, drug dealers, drug addicts, sexual harassment predators, pedophiles and embezzlers. That's just for starters. We need to memorize this and keep repeating it every time we talk about Republicans.

[frdm399]

11:44 PM on 11/23/2011

I guess you haven't been reading many of the posts here because that type of labeling has been going on for a long time.

[specmark]

03:01 PM on 11/24/2011

Hey JM. Let us not forget the easily swayed indies: the Reprobates are counting these noses, already, thinking that their party will go find Reagan's grave, dig him up, put a cigar in his mouth,-- and there you go. He's good enough, right?
They have no game. Obama can not take solace here, either.

[teabagmetos]

03:18 PM on 11/23/2011

Half-assed written story !! The president said he would address them and listen to them, yet no mention of what that was !!

[duzacm]

02:29 PM on 11/23/2011

Heckling...I love it. And I love the reason for it. Like "Change" the hecklers never got. I think even the democrats are waking up. Begin with his wreckless spending and end with his campagning for a second term at the expence of the tax payers.

[Martha Fair]

01:48 PM on 11/24/2011

All Obama has managed to do thus far is to continue the failed policies of his predecessor . He did so at the expense of the working middle class of the American people who believed he would help them.

[1southernbelle]

12:26 PM on 11/23/2011

President Obama is still the only class act running for President. He didn't have his Secret Service eject the protesters; he didn't rail at them.

I am amazed at how much he has accomplished without the full support of elected Democrats, with no support from elected Republicans, and with constant lies about him and his family.

We all wish he were Superman, but he's not. I have some deep concerns about some of his decisions, and I know that no one else available could have done better than he has.

OWS is courageous and having a transformative impact on the national conversation--turning it towards our real problems. Getting out information about the number of arrests at political rallies is important; I hope they do it at with all politicians.

[duzacm]

02:30 PM on 11/23/2011

Lies about him ? Where do I start ?

[franksnmail]

03:20 PM on 11/24/2011

BARF!!

[Kristof Liberato]

11:08 AM on 11/23/2011

I think my movement brothers and sisters in OWS are doing a good job. We have a long way to go. But we are making an impact. Keep the pressure on every politician who takes the podium. Ask them the tough questions that the media outlets refuse to ask. Where are the jobs? Why the rising poverty? Why the decreasing wages? Why increasing expenditures on bombs and killing in place of investing in the quality of life of millions, and rebuilding the country's infrastructure? Why does the 1% keep winning when everyone else is losing? And why does the right wing and Wall Street keep crying "Class-Warfare" and calling us a community, when they keep looting the sinking ship?

[Mr Nightlinger]

10:35 AM on 11/23/2011

Did you hear about the two pretzels down on Wall Street?

One was a salted.

[blb0027]

12:58 AM on 11/26/2011

Why do people think that billionaires don't pay taxes. The the dumbest thing I ever heard. Oh well I guess everyone doesn't use their brain. They just read something somewhere and it's a fact.

[Mr Nightlinger]

01:52 AM on 12/01/2011

Does a billionaire pay a third of his income in taxes as you do? Are you an idiot?

Between a working man like me, defending US--I am on YOUR side...OUR side...yet you feel you want to defend BILLIONAIRES.

[Mr Nightlinger]

01:53 AM on 12/01/2011

This was said in response to...my pretzels joke?

[Jondrea Smith]

09:40 AM on 11/23/2011

You know....part of me thinks he enjoyed it, even if he was uncomfortable being the subject of the critique. If he was any good as an organizer, that part of him had to at least be impressed that they were there.

[franksnmail]

12:24 PM on 11/23/2011

Anytime he can get free facetime from the press or the networks he's happy.

[Jeffrey Bryson]

01:16 PM on 11/23/2011

He's the President. It's not like he's lacking in access.

[1southernbelle]

12:27 PM on 11/23/2011

Agree.