Monday, October 11, 2010

OBAMA GETS A BOOK THROWN AT HIM

A book thrown onto the stage narrowly misses U.S. President Barack Obama at a rally at Vernon Park in Philadelphia October 10, 2010. Obama, kicking off a busy week of election campaigning, strove to energize his base on Sunday in order to minimize losses for his Democrats in elections on Nov. 2.

U.SEE. President Barack Obama has endured months of bitter headlines, frothing cable news punditry, and dubious, misspelled placard slogans, but Sunday marked the first time that words came close to physically harming him.

An unidentified attendee threw a paperback book at Obama while he spoke at a rally in Philadelphia aimed at minimizing losses for his Democrats in midterm elections on Nov. 2, international media report.

Obama did not seem to notice the book, which joins a growing list of projectiles aimed at presidents, from the two shoes hurled at George W. Bush by an Iraqi journalist to the two misfired pistol shots with which a White House painter tried to kill Andrew Jackson in 1835.

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