Protests by the motorcade
by digby
This is the kind of roadside protest the president sees from his motorcade when he vacations in a lefty paradise:
It’s a little different than such protests in other places:
The president’s motorcade passed the street-side rally on Saturday morning while traveling to the Disabled American Veterans convention where both Obama’s were scheduled to speak. According to a White House pool report, roughly 50 protesters—”many of them older and most of them white”—were rallying outside the Hilton Orlando where the convention was being held.
This marks the second time just this week that the president was greeted with racially-charged protests while touring the country. On Tuesday, demonstrators outside an Arizona high school where Obama spoke sang “Bye Bye Black Sheep.” One woman held a sign saying “Impeach the Half-White Muslim!”
Most on both sides are older and white, by the way. But they obviously have different concerns.
*Just one little observation about the first family’s Christmas trip: can I say how nice it is that Cokie Roberts and her ilk don’t complain about president Obama spending his vacation in a “foreign” place like Hawaii and insisting that he go to Myrtle beach instead? Maybe they’re finally starting to learn that America is a big place.
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