THE PRESIDENT: I also want to congratulate the Class of 2009 for all your accomplishments. And since this is Notre Dame --In fact further reading of the transcripts even notes the yelling of "San Dimas High School Football Rules", Obama's aside to the Chancellor that "Charlie Weis and Jimmy Clausen suck", and noted the President's physical unease towards a pigeon that had landed to the left of the stage when he ordered the Secret Service to "shoot that damned winged rat before we all catch bird flu".
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Abortion is murder! Stop killing children!
AUDIENCE: Booo!
THE PRESIDENT: That's all right. And since --
AUDIENCE: We are ND! We are ND!
AUDIENCE: Yes, we can! Yes, we can!
THE PRESIDENT: We're fine, everybody. We're following Brennan's adage that we don't do things easily. (Laughter.) We're not going to shy away from things that are uncomfortable sometimes. (Applause.)
I look forward to this era of open government and I hope that in the future the White House will also move towards noting any signs or derisive puppets in the audience, note the body language and movements of the President with phrases like "he shifted his feet uneasily after meeting the gaze of a particularly ugly man in the first row" or "he pointed his thumb and fist with the confidence and manner of an eternal celestial God-like being", and move not just to transcribing shit that people yell out, but various hooting, coughing, and grunting noises the audience makes. Or maybe concentrate the open government movement on things like Treasury Department decisions to pay ousted GM CEO's $20 million bonuses and leave us to divine that some idiot yelled something out from the video of the speaking event you also post up.
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