https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2011/04/21/bad-news-protesters-heckle-obama-by-singing-and-er-promising-to-vote-for-him/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 18:10:23 -0400<![CDATA[An immortal example from last night&#8217;s fundraiser in San Francisco of how the left&#8217;s ferocious antipathy to executive power under Bush has melted away into &#8230; not &#8220;nothing,&#8221; exactly, but something reminiscent of an SNL skit. Megan McArdle wrote yesterday about the collapse of the anti-war movement with a Democrat in office, noting that if war protests are purely partisan affairs then the president can ignore the protesters because he&#8217;s not expecting their votes anyway. Behold the flip side of that reasoning: A protest where the demonstrators do belong to the same party as the president but where they go out of their way to reduce their own leverage, not only promising him that they&#8217;ll vote for him anyway but actually donating thousands of dollars to him for the privilege.]]>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:36:33 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2011/04/21/bad-news-protesters-heckle-obama-by-singing-and-er-promising-to-vote-for-him-n177734