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katydidwonder
I saw this video earlier today. It shows this happening on a number of occasions from his campaigns to the present. Either something fishy is going on or this guy has a bigger effect on women than Elvis or The Beatles.
signalfire
My real question is, why the heck is there often people staged standing behind either the President or some other speaker in these things? No effin way I'd stand behind someone who is an assassination target...
CthulhuMythos
reply to post by matafuchs
LInky
here is a link to a slightly different angle of this shot. What I find suspicious is that the woman at the far left, the one in the grey jacket, says something to the woman who is holding the fainting woman throughout the whole episode. Any lip readers in ATS? Just after the woman in grey says something, as she has spotted the woman wavering, the one holding onto the woman, who would have been able to feel her swaying right from the start and strangely enough did not even look in her direction like a normal concerned person would, pulls her over a little making her that bit more visible behind Obama. Now that to me is suspicious. Wasn't like either of the two women were actually being concerned or really assisting the fainting woman who obviously was not doing well, and in light of her being so pregnant, the natural reaction would be for her well being. Also it was not like the woman in grey was saying 'your pal is about to faint, hold on tight to her' because she didn't just pull her into her side for a stronger grip and support, she actually took a step to the side pulling the pregnant woman with her, into a more visible spot out from behind Obama.
Also Obama when he says 'I got ya' he is not actually talking to the woman, he is facing the audience/camera. If you were actually concerned you would be saying that whilst facing the person, not making it a photo op.
I think, and it is only my personal opinion, that maybe this woman was prepped and placed for this to happen. Hot day, not given/had much fluids, diabetic, nervous being on stage. Would not be hard to set something like this up where Obama crew are directing people to be here and there and keeping drinks/carbos or sugars away from the pregnant woman during the preparations greatly increasing her chances of a faint. But that is just a possibility as I see it.
Karmel Allison
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