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发帖数: 2226 | 1 a new song will prevail!
"Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir / Each of us brought you $5,000 /
It takes a lot of Benjamins to run a campaign / I paid my dues, where's our
change?" the song began.
"We'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true / Look at the Republicans -
what else can we do / Even though we don't know if we'll retain our
liberties /
In what you seem content to call a free society," it continued.
The song described Bradley Manning as "alone in a 6 by 12 cell" for "23
hours a day" and ended with "this kind of thing ain't right / We paid our
dues, where's our change?"
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) 鈥US President Barack Obama on Thursday faced an
unusual singing protest over the detention of Bradley Manning, a US soldier
held for allegedly passing classified documents to WikiLeaks.
In San Francisco on a campaign-style swing, Obama was headlining a
fundraising breakfast where tickets cost $35,800 when a woman in a white
suit rose to interrupt him, saying she and her friends had written him a
song.
The woman, who stripped off her jacket to reveal a black t-shirt that said "
Free Bradley Manning," and others at a table for 10 then sang a song that
noted they had just contributed to Obama's 2012 reelection bid and went on
to criticize his detention.
"Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir / Each of us brought you $5,000 /
It takes a lot of Benjamins to run a campaign / I paid my dues, where's our
change?" the song began.
"We'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true / Look at the Republicans -
what else can we do / Even though we don't know if we'll retain our
liberties /
In what you seem content to call a free society," it continued.
The song described Bradley Manning as "alone in a 6 by 12 cell" for "23
hours a day" and ended with "this kind of thing ain't right / We paid our
dues, where's our change?"
The protesters also handed out small signs that read "Free Bradley Manning"
or bore his picture.
"That was a nice song," Obama, evidently displeased, told the roomful of
about 200 donors at the upscale Saint Regis Hotel. | U*E
发帖数: 3620 | 2 Liberal Base Turns on Obama with Song at San Francisco Fundraiser
President Obama was interrupted in the middle of his speech by a woman named
Naomi Pitcairn, who proceeded to lead eight protesters at her table in a
song about Manning:
"Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir
Each of us brought you $5,000
It takes a lot of Benjamins to run a campaign
I paid my dues, where's our change?
We'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true
Look at the Republicans - what else can we do
Even though we don't know if we'll retain our liberties
In what you seem content to call a free society
Yes it's true that Terry Jones is legally free
To burn a people's holy book in shameful effigy
But at another location in this country
Alone in a 6x12 cell sits Bradley
23 hours a day is night
The 5th and 8th Amendments say this kind of thing ain't right
We paid our dues, where's our change?"
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: a new song will prevail!
: "Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir / Each of us brought you $5,000 /
: It takes a lot of Benjamins to run a campaign / I paid my dues, where's our
: change?" the song began.
: "We'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true / Look at the Republicans -
: what else can we do / Even though we don't know if we'll retain our
: liberties /
: In what you seem content to call a free society," it continued.
: The song described Bradley Manning as "alone in a 6 by 12 cell" for "23
: hours a day" and ended with "this kind of thing ain't right / We paid our
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