Barack Obama's campaign is disputing reports that the Pledge of Allegiance was not recited at Obama's most recent event in New Hampshire.

The Drudge Report is reporting that before Obama spoke in Londonderry, this past Thursday, the campaign scrapped the National Anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Obama campaign has responded that the National Anthem was not sung but that the Pledge of Allegiance was delivered by a local veteran.

A campaign website includes a video of the Pledge with the title "UPDATE: Watch this video to see that the pledge of allegiance was said at a recent Obama event in New Hampshire. Reports claiming otherwise are completely false."

The video of the Pledge of Allegiance can be found here: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nhldpledge/

Sandra Abrevaya, Obama's New Hampshire communications director, said the Star-Spangled Banner was not sung because of a "miscommunication." Zach Bencal, a senior at Londonderry High School, had been contacted by the campaign to sing the National Anthem but was told before the event that he would not perform.

"We regret the miscommunication with Zach about Thursday's event, but we are pleased that several other New Hampshire residents were able to speak at Thursday's event where thousands of voters in both parties gathered to hear Senator Obama discuss his plan to bring the change we need to Washington," Abrevaya said in a statement.

Local television station WMUR interviewed Bencal who said that a campaign official told him, "due to some people wanting to speak we [the Obama campaign] kind of had to cut the National Anthem."