BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — President Obama was heckled Saturday by AIDS protesters, who interrupted a rally here, forcing the president to temporarily suspend his remarks to a packed stadium of 9,000 Democrats. The protesters, who have shown up at other rallies to call for the president to devote more money to fighting global AIDS, were eventually escorted out.
Mr. Obama had come to Bridgeport as part of a four-state get-out-the-vote swing in the final days of the campaign. He was joined by Representative Jim Himes, who is in a tight re-election race, and the state attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, who is seeking the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the Democrat, who is retiring.
As the protesters left, Mr. Obama sought to make the best of it, arguing that his administration had done more to finance global AIDS programs than Republicans would. “This is one of the great things about Democrats,’’ he said. “We always like to be heard.”
