Book Flies Behind Obama at Rally
A book was tossed in the direction of President Obama as he was waving to the crowd Sunday after a campaign speech in Philadelphia.
It didn't hit him but did fly behind him.
The Secret Service says it was aware of the incident when it happened.
A spokesman says the book was thrown by an "over-exuberant" individual who wanted Obama to have a copy of a book he had written.
The Secret Service says it interviewed the book thrower and deemed there was no threat - just bad judgment on his part. No arrest was made and the Service declined to give his name.
At the same rally, a streaker was arrested. Apparently, the nude man was trying to win $1 million in a publicity stunt for a website.
The streaker wasn't involved in the book throwing, says the Secret Service.
CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor told the story on "The Early Show":
Copyright 2010 CBS. All rights reserved. It didn't hit him but did fly behind him.
The Secret Service says it was aware of the incident when it happened.
A spokesman says the book was thrown by an "over-exuberant" individual who wanted Obama to have a copy of a book he had written.
The Secret Service says it interviewed the book thrower and deemed there was no threat - just bad judgment on his part. No arrest was made and the Service declined to give his name.
At the same rally, a streaker was arrested. Apparently, the nude man was trying to win $1 million in a publicity stunt for a website.
The streaker wasn't involved in the book throwing, says the Secret Service.
CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor told the story on "The Early Show":
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Thank you, ABunker, for the Constitution comment. There are laws being illegally passed by the judicial branch of our revolutionary, renowned 3 branch government outlined in our Constitution (which has been a model for more [other country's] constitutions than anything EVER written). Once we get back to the Constitution - and quit this elementary school finger pointing - we will truly see change. If you're used to getting things you don't deserve, you'll probably not like the changes. Too bad. There is a process for changing the Constitution that is being circumvented (I know that's a big word - but it's appropriate) more than ever. It's called AMENDING. Ideally, this ludicrous practice of liberal judges creating and passing laws will stop and the ones they did create will be repealed. ALL OF THOSE LAWS ARE ILLEGALLY IN PLACE- and many of them are to blame for the downward spiral you're experiencing. Stop blaming a puppet like Bush (or Obama, for all of you right wing crybabies) and get over it.