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While stumping for Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, former president Barack Obama was heckled by extremists. He had to address that as well as his friend Paul Pelosi, the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the current Speaker of the House.

Obama, the 44th President of the United States helped paved the way for his former vice president, Joe Biden to become the 46th President of the United States. He also helped the "best looking and smart" Kamala Harris become the 49th Vice President of the United States.

Obama is the first African American president. He served two terms as the president from 2009 until 2017.

Harris is the first woman, first African American and South Asian American vice president.

The Democratic Party has been the party that supported African Americans. Despite the far right's revisionist history and buck dancing from Black coonservatives, the Black support for Democrats is still 92%. 

Democrats are extremely nervous about turnout. They believe they could lose Congress to the noise of the far right. Republicans have capitalized on inflation, culture wars amd crime.

Obama made a stop at Detroit’s Renaissance High School on a limited national tour to support Democrats in key battleground states; Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

“The thing is, we can’t give in to the temptation to give up. We can’t turn inward. We can’t see politics as a zero-sum game where anything goes,” Obama said.

The rally for a standing-room-only crowd was meant to get Democratic voters to turn out to vote. The former president played heavily on abortion and voting rights. Both were issues that were animating factors over the summer, but have fallen slightly from the front of voters’ minds as inflation has been on the rise.

In the middle of his speech, a heckler can be heard interrupting, much to the apparent exasperation of Obama, who sighed before giving the unidentified man a piece of his mind.

Obama was discussing just how problematic the would-be kidnappers of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are when he was interrupted by someone yelling, “Mr. President.”

Gesturing to the man, Obama says, “Come on!”

Apparently likening the heckler to opponents of Democrats, Obama said, “This is what I mean, we are having a conversation.”

Then, Obama effectively had his latest mic drop moment at the heckler’s expense.

“Sir, sir, sir. sir, this is what I’m saying. Look, we’ve got a process that we set up in our democracy. Right now, I’m talking, you’ll have a chance to talk sometime later,” Obama said to cheers. “We like each other, we don’t have to shout each other down — it’s not a good way to do business. You wouldn’t do that in the workplace. We wouldn’t just interrupt people having a conversation. It’s not how we do things."