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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Demonstrators at Convention Center for Obama, Specter

 Inquirer staff writer Robert Moran reports:

 

 

Read more breaking news in our From The Source blog.

 

More than 200 demonstrators, media and onlookers had converged at 12th and Arch Streets by 4 p.m. in conjunction with President Obama's visit at the Convention Center for a fundraiser for Sen. Arlen Specter.

Many in the crowd chanted "Health Care Now!"

One man with his own quirky agenda held up a sign that read:  "UFO Disclosure Now."

One corner had anti-abortion protesters with graphic signs and a man loudly speaking against abortion through a loud speaker.

Another corner had supporters of legislation that would move more disabled people out of nursing homes and into the community.

At a third corner, Betty Schieber, 71, of Langhorne, held up a sign declaring: "Dump Benedict Arlen."

"I'm hoping he gets the message that he's not going to get reelected,"said Schieber, a GOP committeewoman. "That's what happens to traitors."

She added, "I worked my backside off for this guy and he back stabs us."

Across the street from her, Liynaa Burrell, 25, of the Philadelphia nonprofit Liberty Resources, helped to hold a large handmade sign that resembled Obama's iconic campaign poster, but added a question mark after the word "Hope."

"We want him to deliver what we're fighting for," she said of the legislation for the disabled.

Outside the convention center, a long line of TV trucks and emergency vehicles were parked along Arch Street.

 

 

 

 

 
Posted by Inquirer Online Desk @ 4:14 PM  Permalink | 12 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:52 PM, 09/15/2009
    I'm starting to see a modern day Jimmy Carter. When really nothin but a Reagan era starter...Enjoy the ride home.
    — Pheagles
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:58 PM, 09/15/2009
    No matter what obama says or does you racist will always be against him. thats a sad fact.
    — phillyguy215
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:07 PM, 09/15/2009
    Yea, I wish congress and Obama would get a clue. We don't trust the Gov't to run our healthcare. They are doing a lousy job with Social Security!!Boot Camp MCSE (HTML deleted)
    — kevin88
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:42 PM, 09/15/2009
    Was Mike Smerconish there licking Obo and Specter's boots?
    — JerryCurlan
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:44 PM, 09/15/2009
    This former ACORN Lackey in Chief is truly incredible. Both need to resign right after Casey.
    — sillybilly
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 6:13 PM, 09/15/2009
    We welcome you President Obama! Keep doing what you believe is right for the future of America. and kevin88, if you have health insurance buddy, nothing will change for you. how many times must that be repeated before it gets thru you peoples head? and ya'll wonder why the republican party is now the laughing stock of the free world.
    — Phil MeNuggets
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:35 PM, 09/15/2009
    Phil MeNuggets - How do you pay for millions of more freeloaders such as yourself and have ¨nothing change¨or be ¨revenue neutral¨? You´re an idiot - go sell your socialism to the idiots in North Philly.....nobody buying it here. And get a job loser!
    — Kaiser Sosa
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:55 PM, 09/15/2009
    Haha! My fiance was the "man with his own quirky agenda held up a sign that read: 'UFO Disclosure Now'." HAHAHAHAHA!
    — jlisacek
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:23 AM, 09/16/2009
    The chances of a republican recapture of power are less than zero. That would be equal to the economic contraction, which is our economy shrinking instead of growing. I would expect all of the good capitalists in Washington to do their solemn duty and quit their government paychecks and health care benefits and go home to start businesses which will grow and hire more and more of the millions of unemployed people and growing by the thousands as I write. Since they truly believe in free enterprise as the only solution to our economic problems, they will of course, stop spending money on campaigns to elect republicans and instead invest in new businesses. Because as we all all know to be scientifically true as well as obvious to common sense, the government has never created a job and government only destroys anything that is good and decent and fun and holy in the eyes of our Lord and Savior. They also tax me which is a mortal sin. So, no more billions of bribes from wall street lobbyists, insurance companies, oil firms, etc. No, all of that money will go to the great capitalist reconstruction of the American economy headed by Joe Wilson and Orin Hatch who create the companies that will hire our way out this problem as opposed to the ridiculous failed policies of spending tax dollars to save millions of American jobs and the entire financial and credit system upon which our economy actually works. The failed legislation from Washington will simply fail because government is the history of failure, as opposed to the great story of business which is always working exactly the way we can count, predictably according to the iron laws of capitalism, which is synonymous with the immutable eternal verities of economics.
    — Fernando08


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