10.16.09 - PROTESTERS AT TEXAS A&M DURING OBAMA'S VISIT (PART ONE)

President Obama visited Aggieland on Friday to attend a forum commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Points of Light Institute, an organization inspired by former president George H.W. Bush's inaugural call for community service and volunteering. The president and the elder Bush honored Points of Light Award winners and addressed the need for service across the nation in this non-partisan event held in Rudder Auditorium.

Inevitably, opponents of the president and his policies took the opportunity to stage what was initially billed by organizers as a "massive protest" but turned out to be just a few hundred people exercising their First Amendment rights.

After deciding to document what was going on while not taking ourselves too seriously, my friend and I took to the streets with a camera to try and find some reasoned arguments. What we got instead was way more entertaining.

Be sure to check out part two of the video and please share this with your friends!

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[TexasAggie2013]

I was at this, and the guy doing the interviews went and talked to people who clearly did not know what they were talking about. Anyone with intelligent signs he avoided. Not everyone there was ignorant or idiots, in fact most weren't.

[TheExWelshman]

We have made no claims that everyone at this event was ignorant or an idiot. We certainly did not "avoid" anyone carrying an "intelligent" sign, whatever that means. This video is not meant to paint any particular group in a bad light - you may not have noticed, but my interviewer wasn't exactly dressed in a manner indicating that we were taking ourselves very seriously.

[AidenIsLove]

The movie was "The DARK Knight" not "The BLACK Knight". There's a guy talking about 3% of the people paying all the taxes at 40% and he says something about a flat tax. Dude, if there was a flat tax, we'd ALL be paying 30% of our paycheck.  People who preach about everybody not paying their fair share don't realize that even if the bottom 97% had to pay a higher rate, it would affect the rich by very much because of the extreme difference in income. Ya, I know this video is 2 years old.

[sleepysalsa]

HA! The signs were pretty fun....but there is a reason that "Aggieland" is also known as "Neo-Con Land."

[vampfirekisses]

That's true. But this public is definitely unaware of that.

[murtymurtmurt11]

Says the guy that interviewed the "hippie liberal chicks" who were obviously well informed and knew what they were talking about hahaha.

[pSychOAtDawn]

The anti-christ stuff is silly and the secession of Texas thing is really out of touch with the situation. These issues are not the important ones. The real important issues are the ones going on in politics today: Both parties being owned by interest groups and openly committing unconstitutional and treasonous acts.

[vampfirekisses]

I'm saying they are ignorant because most of them are not aware of the entire issue. When people are calling for the secession of Texas, for example, they obviously dont know what they're talking about. When they call Obama a communist/socialist/anti-chris­t, they dont know what they're talking about. It's simple, really.

[pSychOAtDawn]

@vampfirekisses. In how people are not aware what goes on in politics or how the public willfully ignore the taxes that are being planned to be put on them?

[Lietuvispartizan]

this video is just cuted - edited, to make people look stupid

[Mhuntsman07]

The man asking the questions is obviously a genius. He asks the important questions. Obviously these people think that Obama is the anti-Christ and the second coming of Hitler. Well played, my friend. Well played.