early and awkward Oct. 30, 2013

Obama Would Appreciate If His Hecklers at Least Stayed on Topic

By Joe Coscarelli

The president was talking about the symbolic failure of the Obamacare rollout disaster, not the symbolic failure of the Keystone pipeline today when he was interrupted by global warming protesters. “That is the wrong rally!” he said through a painted-on grin. “We had the climate change rally back in the summer! This is the health-care rally.” Wrong liberal letdown!

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