The San Francisco Chronicle was the designated media outlet covering a high-dollar Obama fundraiser this morning, and the paper managed to catch the awkwardness that ensued as half a dozen people stood up and started singing a protest song over the harsh captivity of Bradley Manning, the Army private who sent a mess of classified documents over to WikiLeaks.
It was a great stunt, polite but pointed. But it wasn’t cheap. It cost them some $76,000 to buy their way into the breakfast. (One of the protesters said she footed the bill for the rest.) They finished with the mocking refrain “We paid our dues, where’s our change?”—and although the president tried to be gracious, he mostly came off as lame.
Life is unpleasant for a twirp who boned his own country, and the rest of the international community. Leading to unrest, and a measurably less stable world. Let’s sing a song about it!
@filthyhip: You forgot to add “allegedly” into that first sentence. This is still America.
$76,000 would have helped his legal fund more. But is not deductible like this stunt.
Damn. I wish I had $76,000. Not that what she did was a bad thing. But.
seriously. when obama’s campaign slogan was “change”, i assumed that meant it would be okay for someone to give classified military documents to a british website. he is such a sellout