This is ridiculous:

FOX NEWS – A University of Florida student said he was denied entry into a campus rally featuring Michelle Obama because he was wearing a John McCain t-shirt.

Matt Pesek told the website Campus Reform that he had a ticket for the event but was turned away while he was standing in line. An Obama staffer allegedly told the student that he would not be allowed inside because the First Lady’s speech was for “supporters only.”

“I was waiting in line wearing a ‘Gators for McCain’ shirt when a guy (representing the Obama campaign) comes up to me to just intimidate me,” he told Campus Reform. “(He then) asks me for my ticket saying…this is an event with only Obama supporters.”

Pesek said he offered to turn his shirt inside but was still denied entry.

A university official told the website that Obama officials could refuse entry to whoever they wanted because it was a private event. But it was being held on a public university campus — paid for by taxpayers.

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Why would anyone want to just give a rally to supporters? I mean I get the idea of rallying the base and all, and it probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do to wear a 2008 John McCain shirt to an Obama rally. Maybe that’s akin to wearing a Braves hat to Yankee stadium. And I understand that they want to avoid potential hecklers and what not.

But to be singled out and refused entrance simply because you are not a Democrat seems a bit much, especially with the offer to turn the shirt inside out.

“One of the things I learned as president is you represent the entire country. If you want to be president, you have to work for everyone.” – Barack Hussein Obama “mmmm-mmmm-mmmmm”




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immykal
immykal

He should have worn a Che Guevara shirt - they would have given him a front row seat...

BikerHoop
BikerHoop

"Why would anyone want to just give a rally to supporters?"

Because that's the only base he even stands a chance of retaining. He's losing the others by the bushel. Oh yeah, and he hopes one of them will faint so he can stoke his ego some more.

ed wedge
ed wedge

You have to work for everyone except - Republicans, Catholics, white males born in this country, working people, people who believe in right to life, right to work etc. etc. etc.

kong1967
kong1967

Didn't Obama just accuse Romney of dismissing half the country?

rich wojcik
rich wojcik

with all the millions of dollars FuBar Ack and you have, can't you fix those buckteeth?

....

Parents: put that photo of her in front of a cookie jar - no kid will ever come close!!!

Holly L Carlson
Holly L Carlson

Ha ha ha. This non-news would be less news if they just let the guy in to the event!

Holly L Carlson
Holly L Carlson

Ha ha ha. This non-news would be less news if they just let the guy in to the event!

GibsonLP
GibsonLP

"One of the things I learned as president is you represent the entire country. If you want to be president, you have to work for everyone.” Yea, right. That's why he said, “I’ll tell you what, except for Romney sign, I’ll buy beers for ten people,”. Somehow, I don't think a republican would have said that. To the contrary, Bush would have said, "...even the guy with the Obama sign".

One thing this clown doesn't know how to do is take the high road; he's a child in a man's body and doesn't hide it. He has been blatant in everything he's done and makes no bones about it. His first year in office he cancelled the National Day of Prayer and instead had 5000 Muslims up to Capitol Hill.

Orangeone
Orangeone

R Squared needs to find this young college student to do an ad saying "O'Bambi doesn't represent me and prohibited me from attending an event on a public school campus."

ClassicLiberal
ClassicLiberal

G8R H8R.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

Yes, Michelle is indeed a hater. She hates the 53% of us that pay for her vacations and temporary stay at the WH. NObama is a millionaire. Why aren't the Occupy crowd calling for him to "pay his fair share"? Nevermind, it's the usual Liberal selective outrage again.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

She also hates the 47%, as well. They are just 'useful idiots' to her.

"Let them eat cake! I'm too busy vacationing to worry about the little people."

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

And they say liberals can't add!

I have to admit, although she couldn't find a time to like this country unless it elected her husband to the Presidency, she still always likes the power, money and the lavish vacations. Oh, and I'm sure she liked that $300,000 job that they didn't have to fill after she left Chicago, as well.

ClassicLiberal
ClassicLiberal

If she hates the 47% and she hates the 53%, that doesn't leave much to like.

johnos2112
johnos2112

I beg everyone to not look at the polls and make sure ALL of your family and friends VOTE. Ignore the polls because this IS a referendum on Obama.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I disagree. I think everybody should look at the polls, see their demographics, and adjust the results to more accurately reflect the D+0 (or, in reality, up to R+3) numbers that are closer to 2004, not the D+8 (or up to D+13) that the more recent polls are trying to push. Also, the polls should be showing likely voters instead of registered voters.

If we shout out the real adjusted poll numbers, people will start to see that Romney is actually leading in the polling and it will dampen the effect that the OPM (Obama Propaganda Media) is trying to force on us.

Here are a nice couple of charts that K-Bob passed on to me the other day that shows exactly what they're doing.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/09/must-see-proof-corrupt-media-corrupt.html

If we know it's a lie and we proclaim enough times that it's a lie, then other people will finally realize and pick up the chorus as well.

johnos2112
johnos2112

I know.  I am just in a panic like everyone else that gets it.  If you took a poll of real voters I would be very surprise if the majority did not vote Romney.  This is gonna be a referendum on Obama.

aposematic
aposematic

Only leftist brainwashed idiots allowed... Obuma's America...

K-Bob
K-Bob

I like how Michele Obama said Barack knew there was "no way" he would ever go to college without financial aid.

I wonder how Walter Williams managed to go to college? Clarence Thomas? Hey Team Obama: ever hear of "working your way through college?"

Howbout just "working?" Ever hear of that? Evidently not.

GibsonLP
GibsonLP

By financial aid, are we talking about student loans or other "aid"? Like aid for foreign students? Student loans have traditionally been a very small percentage of the overall cost; they wouldn't even put a scratch in the cost of a law degree.

This guy doesn't strike me as being too bright; I'd really like to know how he got into Harvard.

K-Bob
K-Bob

That's news to me. I thought "student loans" were what lawyers and doctors spent 25 years paying off.

Even so, I knew guys who went to law school at night, and paid for it out of pocket, because they worked day jobs to be able to do just that.

It wasn't Hah-vahd or some other prestigious law school, but they passed the bar and started practicing law just fine. (They also had relevant industry experience, which made them worth something once they got their law degrees.)

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

NObama wouldn't work to warm himself in the middle of winter. He'd sit on his ass and wait for someone else to provide the fire and then have the gall to say "you didn't build that fire - someone else built it" Ingrate!

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

Should have pointed out that his shirt was 47% made in Kenya, and 53% Made in America.

Why he would *want to hear her speak* is beyond me. I wouldn't go to a NObama event if they paid me to attend - like they do most of the crowd so as to make it look like there was a large crowd there - I turn over the TV the moment her or Manchild appears - I won't submit willingly to evil.

When he offered to turn his shirt inside out and they still wouldn't let him in - That's victimization, intimidation, and profiling right there.

cathmom
cathmom

"That's victimization, intimidation, and profiling right there."

No its not because they are libs.

Now if a conservative had done this, they would be raked over the coals by the MSM.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

(Slaps back of hand) Or course! What was I thinking! :-(

MSM (Muslim Socialist backing Morons) Making a mockery of journalism each and every day, printing all the manufactured news that fits their agenda!

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

What I would like to do is go to their rallies and film the back side of the audience, from a distance so that we could actually see the size of the crowd. Every time you see an Obama rally, it's always closeups and zoomed in shots to show no more than a dozen people at a time, in order to hide the small crowd that is actually there.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

Indeed... Just like moving the convention indoors "for weather safety" from a 74 thousand areana to maybe a 20thous. Had nothing to do with the fact that they couldn't fill the original place despite bussed in Union workers and paid "supporters", no it was the weather... Riiiiight! The weather.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

You will never see the Romney camp make one like that after the election. It's too much like 'spiking the football' and a true American President tries to bring everyone together after the fight.

However, I would love it for my private collection. Perhaps a right-leaning site would do it with leftover monies.

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

That woudl make an awesome video! You should suggest it to the Romney camp as something to make for WHEN they win! :-)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Perfect, wolfie. I've saved this video for Nov. 7th as well.

What I'd like to see on that day is a video with this music in the background, having the sun rising in the East; showing people coming out the polling stations the day before dancing, laughing and rejoicing; newspaper clips of the final election results; families hugging each other all across the country, as they look up at that rising sun into the new dawn of a different day. What a day of celebration it will be.

We could honor it as "Post-Obamination Day". This is the first day of the rest of our lives!

Whitewolf2009
Whitewolf2009

Another one for you that you might like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P-gu_vMRc

(Mr. Blue Sky - ELO) A song I'm going to play on Nov 7th with great glee just thinking of the joy we will be feeling having unchained ourselves from the Socialist pResident!

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Excellent video. I've always loved it.

"From where I stand, the sun is shining all over the place." Yep, just like on November 6th. :)

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Well, it was the weather - the political weather that seems to keep dumping on his parade. Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain. :)

wodiej
wodiej

Look at it this way-this is just another example of why not to vote for obama and support Romney.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

Wonder if you had to show ID to get in.

Did you have to get a ticket to enter in advance?

K-Bob
K-Bob

The NewsMax story added, "he said he had a ticket," before the quotes you see above, in Scoop's article.

AlabamaPatriot2
AlabamaPatriot2

An event on a public university campus, paid for by taxpayers (you think the DNC is going to foot the bill for this?)

The student had a ticket; how can you NOT let him in?

Queen Michelle is to be obeyed!!! Let them eat fried twinkles!!

K-Bob
K-Bob

This gets weirder and weirder. Looking up the event, I found mostly vague coverage with photos of The First Lady and bland captions. I wanted to know what the event was.

For example, if she was there speaking on behalf of, say her good nutrition initiative, and the rally was for better nutrition or something, then I'd say it's fine to have her speak at a taxpayer-funded school event. Even if she subtly works in talking points about the President. Even if it wasn't just for a club or something.

But this appeared to be a major, campus rally to encourage students to go out there and vote! Yay!

(I saved a picture if they decide to yank it)

But wait, it was also called: "Grassroots Event with First Lady Michelle Obama"

What? "Grassroots," as in "from the bottom, up?" So what's the First Lady doing there?

Further, the news reports pointed out she expressly campaigned for Barack Obama at that rally (as she did at several places in Florida that day).

Mclatchey News reports that she mentioned how slim the margin of victory was last time, "and coached her audiences not to take a day off for the next 50 days and 'work like you've never worked before.'"

First Coast Newsquoted her as saying: "If we win Florida, we will be well on our way to putting Barack Obama back in the White House for four more years"

She spoke in a large venue (you can see video at the First Coast News link), with all kinds of "Forward" posters (including on the podium), and televised coverage (okay, its the First Lady, so that's expected).

But the Republican equivalent (Go back to that McClatchey News link) was a bus tour where they spoke to a "few dozen" students in the "Young Republicans Club".

Anyone want to bet the Michelle Obama event wasn't a University-sponsored (meaning NOT just a club) event?

"Grass Roots" my eye! Someone should go to jail for this. You don't use taxpayer money to support a campaign. EVER!

Bill Whittle is exactly correct.

K-Bob
K-Bob

And I would say the same thing if Romney's campaign got the same treatment.

We need a Constitutional Amendment that expressly forbids all forms of taxpayer funding of campaigns. Including that stupid, "matching federal funds" crap.

Libertyship46
Libertyship46

The big question I have is why was this event held on a public university campus (paid for by taxpayers) in the first place? If it was a "private" event, then have it at a private location paid for by the Obama campaign, such as a hotel ball room or an rented hall or arena. Why are our tax dollars paying for an Obama event?

Rod M.
Rod M.

One word: OBAMUNISM

JoeMontana16
JoeMontana16

This is wrong. Having said that the kid should give me that McCain T-shirt so I can line the inside of my doghouse. I dreamt I had a McCain T-shirt on once and then I proceeded to fall down a cosmic rabbit hole.

Yazz55
Yazz55

This is profiling!

Liberals & statists should be screaming out loud complaining about profiling by the Obama regime.

Orangeone
Orangeone

And if the student is white he should claim racial discrimination as well as gender discrimination and state the Demos have a War on Men!

Not4TheGimmeParty
Not4TheGimmeParty

Considering she is the first lady of the United States--this is unconstitutional actually. Supposedly, he is everyone's president.

white531
white531

If Michelle Obama fell down on the sidewalk in front of me, I would step over her and continue on my original course. You may hold me in contempt for such ugly behavior. I hold her in contempt, because she hates America, and she is just ugly, period.

1217Chic
1217Chic

I would "accidently" step on her as well.......Can't wait for her, her rent-a-kids and the old lady to pack up in January and GTHO.