Obama Camp Scraps National Anthem
Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:06 AM
By: Phil Brennan Article Font Size
The Obama campaign asked Zach Bencal of Londonderry, New Hampshire to sing the National Anthem at an Obama rally there Friday and then told him to forget about it -- they had scratched the National Anthem from the program.
According to the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Obama people dumped the Star Spangled Banner to make room for another speaker.
"We regret the miscommunication with Zach about today's event, but we are pleased that several other New Hampshire residents were able to speak at today's event where thousands of voters in both parties gathered to hear Sen. Obama discuss his plan to bring the change we need to Washington," Sandra Abrevaya, communications director for the Obama campaign's Manchester office told the Union Leader.
Bencal, who the Union Leader explained sings the anthem for a number of school events and is actively involved in local community theater, had been contacted by the Obama campaign to sing the anthem. He agreed to do so, then was told later in the evening the anthem had been scratched from the program. Bencal said he was told by the campaign the decision was a simple programming change to make room for another speaker.
"I guess it just wasn't meant to be," Bencal said.
Commenting on the incident, Union Leader reader Jean Holden of Manchester N.H. wrote to the newspaper: "That says a lot about what Obama does not stand for and that's 'America.' John McCain is 'proud' to be an 'American' and has shown it in many ways while Obama refuses to say the Pledge and have our nation's anthem sung at his rallies."
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2 comments:
Wow...you McCain supporters are really grasping at the straws!
How's the ol' smear campaign working for him anyway?
It is working GREAT! Thanks for asking! It makes sense that the average, stereotypical left wing "give it all away and be a hippie" liberal would be afraid to address the issue. What no comment on BO's lack of PRIDE? Why would ANYONE cancel the National Anthem? There is NO, I repeat NO Patriotic and honest reason that at ANY time you would "not" have room for our National Anthem. Again, only a crying, scraping and "sad" liberal would not see the ULTIMATE importance in that. Oh!!!! you are probably why this Nation's kids are not allowed to PRAY in school anymore. Our kids do not even know how to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" anymore. How is the smear campaign going? Not ANYWHERE near as good as if we had BO's 200 million dollars for ads.
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