Obama answers protesters questions

[unapatriciated]

Run time: 05:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pod1Kr-q6us   Posted on YouTube: August 01, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 01, 2008 By DU Member: unapatriciated Views on DU: 1222

 
Now this is how it's done, unlike McCain who resorts to name calling and arrests.

[Divine Discontent]

1. I don't think I've heard Obama bring up

Gay/Straight unprovoked ever. So that was very nice to see. At first, I was concerned how he might handle these very angry and articulate young men who had a well worded question from their group's leader. Obama started out saying the obvious, but I believe around the last minute he reached through, and did make some ground with the protesters in saying he had forcefully spoken up, but it may not have been how they would like it framed (more angrily done), and his finishing comment was a uniting one, that really made this potentially bad situation turn into something a bit positive. I was impressed. As these are some of the hardest things he'll ever face - direct anger from people from part of his own race that has been heavily slighted in this country, and he did well.


GO BARACK!


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[spiritual_gunfighter]

10. Not entirely true

I have heard him bring up "gay/straight" when talking about similar subjects before, this isn't the first time.

[Divine Discontent]

14. thanks for the input!

appreciated. I did say I was speaking for me, though. I didn't say he never has before.


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[IndependentDem]

2. I think he handled it very well... i would like to know what the guy was yelling back at him. n.t

[HopeHoops]

3. Sadly, the crowd seemed to make the young man seem foolish.

I think Obama handled the question perfectly, but the crowd made the young man feel attacked. Just something to keep in mind if you happen to be in such a gathering. When he says "hold on", hold on. That could have come out much cleaner if the crowd had allowed him to engage the guy directly without cheering at his points. It seems in the end he had to abandon that approach and go for a "closing statement". While it was a carefully crafted statement, the better closing would have been a "thank you" to the protester.

[raystorm7]

5. Kid was foolish, uninformed or both. He's young so he should no how to use the YOUTUBE or GOOGLE.

[hopewell1985]

4. mccain

would have choked those youngsters

[Jack Rabbit]

6. This and the other video remind me of Senator Muskie handled hecklers in 1968

Muskie would invite one up to the platform and give him the mike and a couple of minutes in return for being able to finish his speech uninterrupted. Muskie would remark on the speakers point and why he disagreed. Back in those days, network news covered those things.

[L. Coyote]

7. Anyone else finding these Obama videos do not download?

Maybe just my hotel's ISP, but the Barack Obama videos do not play today??

[unapatriciated]

8. click on the direct link to youtube.....

it could be that they are getting a lot of simultaneous hits.

[L. Coyote]

9. That is what I did. The DU server is now serving the content.

But, my YouTube connections are not working.

I think I'm being "content regulated" by the ISP here, discriminating against high band width sites??

[ikojo]

12. I had to download an update to the

adobe flash plug in.

[ikojo]

11. Wow! Now THAT is the Barack Obama that reeled

me in back in 2006 when he spoke at a Democratic rally in St Louis! I LOVE that Barack Obama!

The kid is probably new to activism and has found comfort in black/African nationalism. I know people like this kid, and they are in their 50s and 60s, who address themselves as this kid did, not as African Americans but as AFRICANS. They view themselves as part of a greater and forced AFRICAN diaspora. However, even the black nationalists I know are backing Obama.

[GaYellowDawg]

16. It's ironic

Go back far enough, and we're all part of a forced African diaspora. Whether chased out by lack of food, poor weather, overpopulation, or warfare, every single person on the planet who was born outside of Africa is part of a forced African diaspora.

IMO, as I've said below, if you're born and reside in the United States, or you're a naturalized citizen, you're American, no matter what your ancestry is.

[butterfly77]

13. That is how you hold a townhall..

I really don't see why McCain keeps getting away with saying that Obama doesn't hold townhall meetings I have seen him at many. I have been waiting to see how long before some protestors would show up. He handled them brillantly.
GoBama!:dem: :dem: :dem:

[GaYellowDawg]

15. "African" community?

I don't think so. If you're born in the United States, you're not African. African-American? Sure. But not African.

[Spiffarino]

17. The end was the best part

With 30 seconds to go, he showed exactly why he will make a fine president: He believes every American matters.

[Krashkopf]

18. Love the Contrast between the way Dems handle situations like that . . .

compared to GOPers.

Democrats let the protesters have their say, and then respond with facts, and logic.

Republicans call in the cops, and then make some lame comment about how great it is that we have free speech in America . . . while the person who exercised the "free speech" is hauled away by the police to the cheers of the crowd!