{"id":2185,"date":"2025-11-04T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:55:34","slug":"obama-praised-for-smooth-way-he-dealt-with-heckler-at-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"Obama praised for \u2018smooth\u2019 way he dealt with heckler at rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">Barack Obama smoothly handled a heckler at a Newark rally on Nov 1, supporting NJ gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill (polls show her leading Republican Jack Ciattarelli by single digits).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Heckler yelled; Obama replied: \u201cOh, I love you, but hold on. I heard you, girl. Just settle down. I\u2019m here to talk to everybody, not just you. I mean, you look cute. But I\u2019m married. Michelle\u2019s fine too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The moment went viral on X, with praise like: \u201cObama is smooth, funny and effortlessly human\u201d and \u201cBarack Obama they could never make me hate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Obama, still politically active due to frustration with Trump and lack of strong Democratic leaders, criticized Trump\u2019s policies as \u201cworse than even I expected,\u201d noting voters backed him despite warnings, driven by economic frustrations like inflation and housing costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama smoothly handled a heckler at a Newark rally on Nov 1, supporting NJ gubernatorial candidate Mikie Sherrill (polls show her leading Republican Jack Ciattarelli by single digits). Heckler yelled; Obama replied: \u201cOh, I love you, but hold on. I heard you, girl. Just settle down. I\u2019m here to talk to everybody, not just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}