WhiteHouse.com Exclusive: In a crazy incident WhiteHouse.com tried to take a picture of Barack Obama's bus to put on the website but was rebuffed by the Secret Service detail at his campaign stop. We traveled several hours by car to see the electrifying Barack Obama in person to get a feel for the electricity he shares with his supporters. The campaign stop held 2500 people but about 3000 people including ourselves showed up. Click on arrow to start video. (Video is 5 Minutes in length)
We waited outside for about an hour with hundreds of supporters until the Fire Marshall signaled that they would not let anybody else in due to overcrowding concerns. From there we walked around the facility to get a picture of his bus and maybe get a picture of him leaving the facility. We were quickly confronted by police who would not allow us to even stay on a public sidewalk which was 40 feet from the bus.
When we came around to take a photo of the bus for this website we were quickly confronted by a Secret Service person who demanded we not take any pictures of his bus. We felt this was amazing considering as you can see in the video, we have been able to go right up to most of the other candidates. We shook hands hands with several of the candidates and even with President Bill Clinton with Secret Service all around him. We even got a campaign question in to Fred Thompson which he gladly answered at a press conference.
We left, even though we felt we were in the right . We did not want to inflame the situation as we understand special security procedures have been put in place due to Barack Obama's historic run for the White House.
We are asking our audience to comment on whether you would have stayed and protected your Free Speech rights or would you have left as we did. We also want to know if you think the Secret Service were out of line in their actions? Just remember you did not see a picture of his bus on WhiteHouse.com. Click on arrow to start video. You can also adjust sound by clicking on volume control in lower right corner.
