Protester disrupts Obama speech in St. Louis

[proud2BlibKansan]

This is the “pool” report from Jake Wagman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who covered President Obama’s visit to his city tonight. Pool reports are distributed to all reporters for use in their stories.

ST. LOUIS• President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of about 300 at his first fundraiser of the evening at a downtown hotel on Tuesday, where he was briefly interrupted by an apparent protester.

The president was introduced by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who clearly had playoff baseball - the St. Louis Cardinals were taking on the Philadelphia Phillies down the street- on his mind.

“We are here to talk about re-elections, but if we can sign Albert Pujols for four more years,” said Nixon, referring to the Cardinals’ star first baseman, “that would be good, too.”

Obama offered to keep his remarks brief so the audience could catch the ninth inning of the game, but the crowd demurred.

About five minutes into his speech, a member of the crowd interrupted to ask the president if he would “stop the pipeline.”



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[MadHound]

1. LOL!

People are getting pissed here in Missouri, people are waking up.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I thought it was interesting that Claire didn't attend this event

It's going to be a fascinating campaign.

[Solomon]

4. yeah all one of him

[FrenchieCat]

5. I hope when I go to hear the President speak, and I cough,

it makes some blog! That would be sooo kewl! :eyes:

Bush would have had that "disrupter" dragged out in chains....
not later refer to him as "some people here are concerned about the environment".

I can't hardly wait for folks to get their greatest wish; a Republican President,
that will kick their ass all the way to kingdom come. That will be "interesting" to
watch for sure.

[butterfly77]

7. Yeah...

Then they will start asking us to come together and I will tell them to kiss my ass!!!

Romney stands in front of the teabagger bus and goes on the campaign trail with the teaparty express but,won't admit he is a teabagger amd the media says nothing..

Let the asshole teabaggers keep leading them to hell..

[rhett o rick]

9. Do you think the President should stop the pipeline? nm

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. This is from an AP report

Not a blog.

[FrenchieCat]

25. Same difference.

Actually, I trust blogs more.

[MadHound]

6. Hey, you want a large pipeline going through your backyard?

No, didn't think so, so why run it through mine?

[FrenchieCat]

11. I've already written two letters about denying the permit via Whitehouse.gov.....

And signed two petitions.

So the anwer is no.

[MadHound]

15. Well, that's a start

But certainly you can do more than that. We've got a pipeline to stop after all, and it isn't going to be done using Marquess of Queensberry Rules.

[FrenchieCat]

18. I'm in California...

I'm doing more than many.

Some just sit on their hands,
and hope all fails. I'm not doing that.

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[FrenchieCat]

24. My daughter lives in St. Louis with her husband....so yeah, I care,

You may be right, I am a partisan to the extent that I know what the choices are in the big picture, and so yeah, I'm a Democrat.

My principle at the end of the day is to keep my nose on my face, regardless.

[midnight armadillo]

3. ...and Obama replied...? what?

Oh that pipeline is gonna go through. Bet on it.

[demosincebirth]

14. I'm for it in the day of record unemployment. Just think how many union jobs that would

create? Towns close to that pipeline would boom...just like the RR towns in the last half of the nineteenth century.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I'll trade you

It's going to be not far from where I live. I'll gladly trade my health for your pipeline.

We can create jobs in healthier ways.

[girl gone mad]

8. Good.

Hope they keep the pressure on.

[AngkorWot]

10. What a dick.

[MadHound]

12. Yeah I hate it when a president does a deal to run a pipeline containing carcinogenic oil

Not just through my backyard, but right through my drinking water supply.

[AngkorWot]

13. I hope you don't complain about the high price of gas.

And the various economic problems that causes.

[MadHound]

16. Actually a high price of gas does force innovation.

And I'd rather be able to drink the water coming out of my tap without fear, even if it means higher gas prices.

Nice to see you're willing to put millions of people's lives and health at risk in order to save money. Life's that cheap to you, hmmm.

And where do you live that you are so willing to put my happy ass on that line. Somewhere far from the proposed route.

[Major Nikon]

26. You wouldn't even necessarily be on the pipeline

The pipeline is really designed to take Canadian tar sands oil to Texas and Oklahoma refineries. I'm not sure how much of it will get off in intermediate places. You could very well be left with the same or higher prices AND the environmental impact of the pipeline depending on where you live.

[CoffeeCat]

17. Gas prices have been high...

...because of the sick speculators who drive up the prices--and because our politicians
allow these perverse practices to happen.

So--our choices are high gas prices and no pipeline OR lower gas prices due to a pipeline that will poison people with
carcinogens?

Man, the energy companies really know how to market lies. It's too bad that anyone would actually
believe their tripe.

[neverforget]

19. I hope you don't mind global warming and all the problems that causes

[Capitalocracy]

21. Hmmm... high gas prices... getting poisoned...

which one to choose? What to do, what to do?