You know, bless your heart, sir. My son is over in Iraq fighting for your right to protest right now.
—Sarah Palin after being heckled at a rally, October 6, 2008
You, you, you, you, you need somebody [ignoring] ……………… you need somebody ……………… That’s all right. No, no, we’re doing OK. Thank you. We’re all right. We’re OK. We’re OK. … I couldn’t uh … I, I …
—Barack Obama after being heckled at a rally, January 17, 2010
Now, which one’s the genius and which one’s the moron?
NB: If you skim through some of the Palin+heckler vids, you will find some suggesting that Palin's response was rehearsed, not spontaneous. Even if that's true, at least she had a prepared coherent response. By stark contrast, I've never seen Obama respond to a heckler without a series of dumbfounded um's and uh's. You'd think by the second year of his presidency his TelePrompter would've given him a clever comeback line.
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