Obama Plans the Pledge of Allegiance for BEFORE He Gets on Stage
A close acquaintance who attended Barack Obama's rally at Baldwin-Wallace College yesterday informed me of a very interesting incident that took place there (news item here).
Right when Obama started speaking, a freelance photographer began shouting that he wanted to say the Pledge of Allegiance. The fo'bama crowd, clearly turned off by the man's fascist/patriotic tendencies, tried to drown him out. But Obama, realizing that he could not turn down saying the Pledge (probably as a result of the hullabaloo that erupted when he failed to put his hand on his heart in the past), allowed the man to proceed with the Pledge. Of course, when the Pledge was done, the fo'bamas erupted in wild applause, apparently because Obama had approved of the same Pledge that they were insulting the photographer for just moments earlier.
Ok, so far you might think that Obama campaign does not normally schedule the Pledge at his events.
But no. When the man began interrupting, Obama asked "I thought we already did the Pledge, we didn't do the Pledge yet?" So, either Obama suffers from severe amnesia, or he expected his staffers to do the Pledge before he gets anywhere near the stage.
Indeed, after the Pledge, Obama said, "We usually do an invocation and a Pledge before we start so I don't know what happened but I'm glad you reminded us."
No Barack, "We" do not usually do the Plege. Your staffers and your fans might. But not you. You can't "delegate" the Pledge of Allegiance and claim credit for doing it.
Here's a video of what happened:
Photographer insists on Pledge of Allegiance before Obama rally from Dale Omori on Vimeo.
And another one from the photographer's end of the gym:
Paul Ibrahim
in Barack Obama, Scandals, Patriotic
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