Speaker at Obama LA Rally Bashes "Teabaggers"… Obama Holds Up Supporters For Two Hours
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, October 24, 2010, 8:28 AM
Barack Obama kept supporters waiting for two hours before he showed up at the USC rally yesterday. They had been standing for five hours. And, one of the speakers attacked the “teabaggers” at the event.
The LA Weekly reported:
More than an hour into today’s presidential rally at USC, actor Jamie Foxx led the crowd chant of “We’re not exhausted.”
It’s not much of a rallying cry. But for much of the crowd of 37,500, it wasn’t even true. Attendees were made to stand in line for hours before being subjected to too many speakers and too much Ozomatli.
By the time Jerry Brown hit the stage, he had to apologize for even being there. “I’m not going to talk too long,” he said, drawing a chorus of cheers.
The whole point of the thing was to get people motivated to go vote for Brown and the rest of the Democratic ticket. So it’s probably not great that by the time Brown got out there, nobody wanted to hear from anybody not named Obama.
Was this avoidable? Or is this just how it is when you’re the president and you don’t make it to L.A. very often? Everybody needs to be on that stage, even if they have nothing terribly interesting to say.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had the honor of leading things off. He got started about 12:25 p.m., while Obama was still across campus at a lunch fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer. He did his usual fire-’em-up routine, which was fine, but then came the first sign of trouble.
He relinquished the stage to his cousin, Assembly Speaker John Perez. Perez is running unopposed in his district, so he doesn’t need an Obama bump. But there he was anyway, sending his own personal “message to the teabaggers” that not only do Democrats understand the Constitution, but they’ve also read it. Zing! Who are you again?
Then, instead of turning things over to a candidate for office, Perez introduced the USC student body president, who offered some noble sentiments about democracy, and … where’s the president? Still dining with big-dollar contributors?
When she was finished, Perez came back out. “I want to introduce the president…” (cheers, excitement, the president is coming!) “… of the Southern California Board of Rabbis!”
So the rabbi, Denise Eger, came out and gave a (lengthy) invocation and encouraged gay kids not to commit suicide. Noble. Heartfelt. What have you done with the president?
And on and on. Kumar from “Harold & Kumar” showed up. Not one, but two community organizers from Organizing for America. The USC marching band. A children’s chorus. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Ozomatli.
Ozomatli? Yes. By the third song, sections of the crowd were chanting “Obama! Obama!” But the band was told to do yet another song, because apparently the president wasn’t finished taking pictures with the folks who gave $10,000 apiece for the privilege.
At one point, paramedics were seen carrying a woman away from the area closest to the stage. Obama fatigue.
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No Man commented:
They are not exhausted.
How tiring is it to pick up the food stamps and cash unemployment checks?
Two hours? They have all the time in the world.
The checks don’t come until the first of the month. Then, they surely will have no time. They’ll be off to Las Vegas.
They live off of us.
bg commented:
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Obama needs to get his “jollies” somewhere.. /s/
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Militant Conservative commented:
Decent turn out, but I personally would think youd get a higher number in the land of fruits and nuts. powder is dry.
bg commented:
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speaking of “jollies”, this ONES on US.. gah!!
ht Elmo @ 8:17 am #33
“the President’s team has booked the entire the Taj Mahal Hotel, including 570 rooms, all banquets and restaurants … (additionally) 125 rooms at Taj President have also been booked, apart from 80 to 90 rooms each in Grand Hyatt and The Oberoi hotels. The NCPA, where
the President is expected to meet representatives from the business community, has also been entirely booked … There are two (additional) jumbo jets coming along with Air Force One … The President’s convoy has 45 cars …”
more @ link..
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Terry Jones commented:
Can the dims get any more lame?
tj
bg commented:
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ps re: bg #4
O’s not going to be attacked while he’s
away, chances are more likely we will..
and if i’m wrong.. Thank You God!!
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Ratt commented:
What’s alarming here is that THAT many people will stand for 5 hours of crap to see the man who’s bringing us record deficits, record unemployment, longest jobless stretch since the 1930′s, record bank failures, record foreclosures, record trade deficits, record poverty rate, failing dollar, national poverty at record highest level, foreign policy disasters, record number of golf games played by a president, record death toll in Afghanistan, record number of food stamp recipients, consumer confidence at record lows -
It seems that these people are not seeing this – in arguably the worst state in the Union now. Republicans need to ask themselves how it is that these 37,000 hardcores are not being reached. Or is this simply part of that 30% that would vote Democrat no matter what was happening?
dnb commented:
Militant Conservative – This conservative’s daughter attends USC. We, her parents, suggested she attend the rally. How often does one get the chance to hear a sitting president speak? So turn out numbers can be deceiving. You don’t know who is there getting to ‘know thine enemy.’
Sasja commented:
They were probably being paid by the hour with a bonus promised if they chanted The O’s name. And Ratt, the answer is in the operative word, “hardcore.”
wanumba commented:
“Obama holds up supporters for two hours…”
Good header!
That NOTHING compared to the armed robbery hold up the country been enduring for over 24 months, longer since it really started under Pelosi.
If those wussies did some actual heavy lifting doing actual WORK instead of grubbing for handouts, they’d be able to keep those hands raised a LONG time for the Obama-pocket-rifling. No matter how fast you can stuff it into the bag, A trillion plus $$ STILL takes a while to cart off for a clean get-away.
gus commented:
Ratt these people are PARASITES.
Parasites will suck the HOST dry, then wonder why the host has nothing left for them.
To a lazy LIBTARD, UNION MEMBER, GOVT EMPLOYEE, ILLEGAL ALIEN or garden variety DEAD BEAT.
THERE IS NO PROBLEM. for now.
Obama doesn’t care about the mess he leaves.
The Kenyan Dimwit is planning his next tee-time or vacation.
Morons are happy with the scraps GOVT throws to them. The more on the dole. The less paying taxes.
The tipping point is coming. It will NOT be pretty. If you think disgusting sh!t is hitting the fan right now. 2 years from now it will be very very very ugly, dirty and probably violent.
UNIONS will not be gentle when they see us bitch slapping their Sissy boy Barry. And we are going to BITCH SLAP him and the rest of his Marxist hacks. IT WILL BE VIOLENT.
Simon commented:
FIRST my school attacks John Ziegler…THEN they hold a proBama/Brown rally…
How can they possibly top this?!
Toaster802 commented:
I am surprised they did not sing Die Fahne hoch while they were waiting for Der Fuhrer.
Opaobie commented:
I hope some of the more discerning members of the audience had an epiphany about what a metaphor this is for the entire Obama-Pelosi-Reid Regime (add Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown if he is elected Governor). This is how things will be EVERYWHERE. Standing in lines, waiting for handouts or a barrage of lies and excuses and insults while you are being drained of “hope” and all of your “change”…and your folding money, too.
Chisum commented:
I found that missing presidential seal.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_DawJTCHuL3c/TMMGDSYQEwI/AAAAAAAAIPY/vHi1WexLi4M/BO%20new%20Seal%20Plan%20copy_thumb%5B11%5D.jpg?imgmax=800
UpChuck.Liberals commented:
Assembly Speaker John Perez. Perez is running unopposed in his district, so he doesn’t need an Obama bump. But there he was anyway, sending his own personal “message to the teabaggers” that not only do Democrats understand the Constitution, but they’ve also read it.
My, now the DemonKrats are picking on dear old Barny and his sexual proclivities.
Rob De Witt commented:
Perfect.
In my (lengthening….) life, I have categorically never seen a group of Libs hold a meeting under any pretext where EVERYBODY didn’t get their 15 minutes of Speaking Out.
After several hours of listening to meandering drivel about the Greater 3-Toed Salamander and The Plight Of The Colorblind, most attendees have long since forgotten what the hell they were talking about in the first place.
Here’s an excellent example:
http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2272097
These feebs couldn’t “organize” a dog fight. And now the whole world is watching. If Thomas Aquinas had been paying attention, Schadenfreude would be classified as one of the Seven Deadlies. Mea Culpa.
Teehee.
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