Rationalist
Hail Voltaire
As free speech goes, it was anything but.
Protesters disrupted a big-ticket fundraiser for President Obama at a San Francisco hotel Thursday, serenading the president with a song about Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of passing classified information to the website WikiLeaks.
Obama was speaking to the crowd of about 200 supporters when Oakland activist Naomi Pitcairn stood up and declared that she and others at her table had written a song for the president.
Brushing off his suggestion to wait, the 10 people seated at the table burst into a refrain that lamented the Pentagon's detention of Manning, described as abuse by human rights advocates. The song also touched on the cost of a ticket to the president's fundraiser, and on Florida Rev. Terry Jones, who recently burned a copy of the Koran, sparking a deadly reaction in Afghanistan.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bradley-manning-20110422,0,2868760.story
To summarize: they paid $5,000/ea to protest the President, and then complained about the cost.
:lol:
I have to give Obama credit for handling this awkward situation with class.
Protesters disrupted a big-ticket fundraiser for President Obama at a San Francisco hotel Thursday, serenading the president with a song about Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of passing classified information to the website WikiLeaks.
Obama was speaking to the crowd of about 200 supporters when Oakland activist Naomi Pitcairn stood up and declared that she and others at her table had written a song for the president.
Brushing off his suggestion to wait, the 10 people seated at the table burst into a refrain that lamented the Pentagon's detention of Manning, described as abuse by human rights advocates. The song also touched on the cost of a ticket to the president's fundraiser, and on Florida Rev. Terry Jones, who recently burned a copy of the Koran, sparking a deadly reaction in Afghanistan.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bradley-manning-20110422,0,2868760.story
To summarize: they paid $5,000/ea to protest the President, and then complained about the cost.
:lol:
I have to give Obama credit for handling this awkward situation with class.