Obama Loses Crowd During Live Speech, Struggles to Get Them Back

Silver-tongued former President Barack Obama, speaking in Detroit on behalf of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, was thrown off his rhetorical game by a persistent heckler on Saturday. Ironically, Obama was lamenting the rise in heated and sometimes violent political rhetoric while referencing the recent attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, when an unidentified man in the crowd yelled, “Mr. President!” What the heckler was saying after that was not clear from initial video from the event, but Obama’s response was. “Sir, this is what I’m saying,” a frustrated Obama retorted, according to Fox News. “We’ve got a…