My Obama supporter experience

[dropkickpa]

Saturday March 15th, Pittsburgh St. Patrick's Day parade

Me and Dropkid got to downtown at about 10am, right before the parade was set to start. A LOT of Obama supporters showed up where we had planted ourselves after we got there. During the course of the parade, my 7 year old daughter was shoved, pushed, stepped on, hit in the head, yelled at, and knocked down. By Obama supporters. I got into 2 separate serious verbal confrontations (one which I thought might come to blows) when I asked them to "Watch what you're doing! There's a lot of kids here and they're getting trampled." My daughter has a huge bruise on the top of one foot where she was stomped and both her knees and elbows are scraped up and bruised. This is not even condidering the number of elbows I took to the head and other body parts and the papercut from a sign I got on the back of my neck.

I was called a fucking bitch. I was called worse. In front of, not only my child, but the hundreds of families on the street.

The supporters were unruly, constantly encroaching on the parade route to zealously wave their signs (at the Dalmation club of pittsburgh?!?? Do spotted dogs have a preference?) so that police and parade workers had to constantly tell them to step back so the marchers and vehicles could make it through. They shoved their way in front of young kids so they could line the route.

It was bad enough that we moved to a different spot, away from the spot where'd we'd

If Obama can inspire this sort of zealotry where common human decency and manners are forgotten, I don't want him. We've had 8 years of people who support their candidate with this level of religiousity, and I'm sick of it.