Not everyone on hand at the Target Center for Saturday’s rally, of course, was there to support President Obama’s health care reform agenda. While the anti-Obama protesters were sparser than might have been expected considering the vitriolic debates of recent weeks, there were a few dozen folks toting signs warning of the looming, socialist health-care apocalypse.
But even among the protesters, this woman stood out. Clad in a surgical mask for much of the day, she toted two signs with different anti-Obama messages on each side. She declined to provide her name.
“Obama supporters are ruthless,” she said in explanation. “They’ll go after people, they’ll search them down and they’ll make life hell for them.”
Among the slogans on her signs: “PUMAS for NObama.” For those with short memories of the 2008 presidential campaign, PUMA stands for “Party Unity My Ass” and was briefly touted as a movement of disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters refusing to back the party’s nominee.
“I’m a disgruntled Democrat,” said the woman. “I want this administration out. They’re a bunch of thugs. Chicago politics.”
When asked what she meant by the phrase “Chicago politics,” she elaborated.
“They bring in communists,” she said. “They lie. They bring in terrorists, Bill Ayers. … And the media covers for him. The media are down on their knees in front of Obama sucking as hard as they can.”
The Inver Grove Heights resident is not at all assuaged by the fact that Clinton is now serving as Secretary of State in the Obama administration.
“It pisses me off,” she said. “I want her to leave. She’s going to run for New York governor and I will support her then. I want her out of that administration. That administration has got to go.”
She also carried a sign questioning whether Obama is an American citizen.
“His own grandma said he was born in Kenya,” she stated (erroneously). “His own grandma. And they won’t produce his real birth certificate. All they give us is the certificate of live birth from Hawaii. Anybody can get one of those if you live in Hawaii. You don’t have to have been born there. That’s all they’ve shown to us. And they won’t show us his college transcripts either.”
What did she hope to accomplish by coming out today?
“Showing them I’m not a mindless Obama-bot like all these other people who want an American Idol for president,” she said. “I believe in Amerca’s freedoms. I don’t like him going to other countries apologizing for us. I don’t like him almost spitting in the eye of our allies. He doesn’t care about Britain. He doesn’t care about Israel. And he goes and he bows to the King of Saudi Arabia.”
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