Posted on 07/23/2015 8:57:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not manhandled by security, I should note, but manhandled by two fellow vets. And I’m not exaggerating in using that word: They’re shockingly rough with a guy who looks to be in his mid-70s. A broken hip will learn the old-timer not to go mouthing off about Benghazi, I guess.
Kind of surprised to find two Obama fans this ardent at a VFW gathering, to be honest.
Perhaps reflecting mixed feelings about the president among veterans, Obama often drew tepid applause, especially for comments about his nuclear deal with Iran. He did, however, receive a rousing ovation after calling for the release of five Americans, including Marine veteran Amir Mirza Hekmati and Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, being held by the Iranian government.“These Americans need to be back home with their families,” he said.
Early in the speech, a protester held up a sign about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead. Fellow VFW members ripped the sign out of his hand, and a police officer removed him after the protester shouted “Benghazi” a several times.
Was this some sort of breach of VFW decorum, i.e. a retired soldier’s not supposed to talk back to the commander-in-chief? Why can’t an American citizen who’s no longer on active duty protest silently? I don’t get why they’re so aggressive with him.
Protester Has Sign Ripped Away in Strange Scene at 0bama Speech
Real vets or those wannabe vets?
one of the guys who pulled down the vet was black = racism!!
BRT
I saw the videoa on social media - NBC was trumpeting this as a victory for free speech (!)
Members of Obie from Nairobi’s “citizen” “army”,....no doubt....
ACORN BRIGADE perhaps???
Hillary uses Ropes restraints...more or less to corral the media
Obama uses GOONS to silence opposition
“These Americans need to be back home with their families,” he said. “
Yeah, and I need a million dollars.
Talk is cheap, and you are supposed to be something that resembles a president...vaguely.
the goons can keep a good man down!!!
America SAW the sign.
BENGHAZI and OBAMA...out of the SHADOWS
this man deserves our thanks and a MEDAL for bravery!!!
That pisses me off! If had been there I would have defended his right to hold up that sign...MFers...
The two vets who did the actual snatching were black. Let’s face it, the average American black man still idolizes this dangerous idiot in the white house. They should not have done that, and pretty near pulled the old guy over backward in their haste. That was theft.
‘These Americans need to be back home with their families’
A day late and $160 billion dollars short. He is a master at requesting something after the ability to get it is well past the possibility. Pandering narcissist.
You’re right -
The older gentleman protester was definitely handled dishonorably rough.
I don’t know how the VFW vets could stomach Obola’s disgraceful presence.
Those “vets” were all there to hear about what sort of new freebies Obama would be dishing out for them IMHO.
Just goes to show that not everyone who served in the military is necessarily a patriotic American. Shame on those two thugs.
Too bad that none of the other vets came to the old guy's aid to their everlasting shame.
I don’t either
A victory for Free Speech by tearing the sign out of the hands of the elderly Veteran? President Bush would have never have allowed that.
See my post in #18
Zip’s own astroturf bussed in, they double as security and VFW.
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