Obama motorcade forces woman to give birth stuck in traffic

RT
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:59 UTC

� Reuters / Jonathan Ernst

A woman gave birth while stuck in traffic on a highway in Louisville, Kentucky, and President Barack Obama is to blame. His motorcade was the cause of the traffic.

A man called 911 about 5:15 pm Thursday to report that his wife was in labor and that traffic was not moving, Louisville MetroSafe spokeswoman Jody Duncan said.

The rush-hour traffic was at a standstill moving because Interstate 65 had been shut down so that the presidential motorcade could travel from the airport to downtown Louisville. Stormy weather did not help matters, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

Thousands of motorists were stuck in the snarled traffic on both directions of the highway, as well as surface streets in the city, preventing emergency crews from getting to the laboring woman.

"They couldn't get through due to the traffic from the motorcade," Courtney Maloney, a Louisville MetroSafe EMS worker who responded to the call, told WAVE. "I pretty much had to ride the emergency lane all the way down."



By the time they arrived 12 minutes after the papa-to-be's distress call, the boy had been born. A nurse who was also stuck in the presidentially-caused congestion helped deliver the infant.

Maloney said the unnamed mother took it all in stride.

"She did say it's a story she will never forget," Maloney said.

Maloney said both the baby and mother were doing well.

A similar situation happened during a presidential visit to Los Angeles, California in July. In that case, a woman in labor was forced to sit on a bench across the street from the hospital for at least half an hour until Obama's motorcade passed and the street reopened. She did not actually deliver the baby until the next day, though.

"I felt bad for her," witness Carrie Clifford told the Blaze at the time. "It does happen when Obama comes to L.A. or I'm sure anywhere else. It paralyzes the city, it does make it complicated."

Obama was in Louisville to give a speech at technology company Indatus, in which he urged Congress to put more money into job training programs. Indatus is participating in TechHire, the jobs initiative the president recently unveiled, the Courier-Journal reported.

His arrival had been delayed three hours so that he could hold a press briefing on the Iran talks from the White House Rose Garden. Negotiators had just announced a nuclear deal with Iran.

"First of all, sorry I'm late," he said, causing the audience to laugh. "A couple of things I had to do, and obviously, when you're president, you've got national security issues that always take top priority."

Obama left Louisville before 7 pm, flying to Utah for another speech on his jobs initiative.

So, a baby was born the same way that babies were born before hospitals ever existed.
The mother and baby are doing well.
Happy ending.

i agree on that fact, alls well that ends well...

but on the other hand, i don't agree with all the money, time and resources the government wastes protecting the president, any president...

Louisville?

How appropriate.

I think all politicians should be forced,
to "reverse birth" a splintered Louisville Slugger.

.... Just sayin'

Some slams are just a little too trivial..... but...... the announcement of a birth is never a bad thing and even better when you can put "back seat" as place of birth

" The unnamed mother took it in stride "... hummm... what else could she say?

Well, I hope her & the ' unamed ' child have been well compensated .

Hope Barry will become the Godfather of the Kid!
On the other hand,belay that!

Well he does refer to his bullet proof,customized, tricked out, one of a kind car as ...

" The Beast "

Happens all the time...My niece was born in front of a local restaurant on the way to the hospital. My brother wrapped her in his shirt and they continued on. No politicians were anywhere nearby...

still obamas fault...

I never cease to be amused and amazed by the things people go out of their way to remanufacture into reasons to be more angry at someone they were already angry at to begin with.

Nothing in the world sillier.

Someone needs to spend some time in the "Don't worry, work on being happy" thread.

and i'm always amused how people seem to want to voice their opinions at things that are meaningless...

i'll hate obama far any reason i want, i hope that amuses you as well...

Awww...but Moe...hatred hurts yourself most of all...

i'm used to it...

It's his passion to 'hate and blame' Obama! Silly, but sort of cute the things he can dig up to say 'it's Obama's fault!

It's the same the world over.... we place the blame on our country's PM too! Even the potholes that appear miraculously every time it rains, it is our PM's fault!

obama is PM there too?

No! But apparently our PM and he 'may be' friends!
Yeah....you could say 'it's obama's fault too'!

always obama's fault...

For once, I agree with you..... but it is 'definitely'..... obama's fault!