and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!
Posted on 08/28/2008 4:41:09 PM PDT by XR7
SPRINGFIELD, IL — It is unclear who was responsible for providing water to attendees of an August 21 event featuring Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, where an estimated 150 people were treated for heat-related illness, including 17 who required hospitalization, according to an August 26 article in the Journal Star.
Justin DeJong, spokesman for Obama for America in Illinois, said the Obama campaign worked with Downtown Springfield, Inc. (DSI) to provide water for the crowd. DSI volunteers sold water for $2 per cup at three locations near the plaza.
Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin said in the article that the city was not involved in any decisions about water supplies for the event.
Tim Ryerson, CEO of the Illinois Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, said that the Obama campaign approached the Red Cross earlier in the week about supplying water for the event, but the organization declined because the organization was neutral and does not provide for political rallies, only disaster relief.
Event coordinators set up misting stations and water fountains and passed out free water for the crowd, but not until shortly before Obama took the stage at 2 p.m., according to the article.
Water bottles were not allowed into the event because bottles can be thrown, and security personnel have no way of knowing if the liquid inside the bottle is water or something potentially harmful, the article said.
Meanwhile, at the Democratic National Convention held in Denver this week, no water stations or toilets are available at the protest zone near the Pepsi Center, according to an August 28 report in The Denver Post. The Post reports that this is a possible violation of the terms of setup a federal judge relied on when approving the city’s security plans for the convention.
So the great party of the "working people" tried to charge 'em two bucks for a lousy cup of water?
No wonder so many almost died of thirst!
What a metaphor for what will become of this country when the "progressives" are in control.
Makes you wanna start throwing bottles, eh?
Water and sanitation contributes to Global Warming - so the Obama campaign is right on this. < /Drunken Sarcasm >
Perfect model for liberalism.
Spend millions building a temple to a glam neophyte. Ban water bottles in case Hillary partisans decide to throw them. Hire a local company to provide water by the cup (which will be plastic, no doubt) at $2/cup (with a percentage going back to the DNC, no doubt).
$2.00!!!
>>>So the great party of the “working people” tried to charge ‘em two bucks for a lousy cup of water?
But water fountains are so unsightly!
/sarc
But what of loaves and fishes?
No $2 in Change, no water! Change is bearing down on us!
“So the great party of the “working people” tried to charge ‘em two bucks for a lousy cup of water?
No wonder so many almost died of thirst!
What a metaphor for what will become of this country when the “progressives” are in control.
Makes you wanna start throwing bottles, eh?”
Probably Bush’s and Bob the Nailer’s fault.
Well, it's kind of a disaster after all...
Bush’s fault
Pope Pelosi says, “Let ‘em eat cake.”
The One can CREATE WATER!!!
just piss on it.
Interesting... Back on Monday I was listening to the DPD scanners, and sure enough a call came through saying that the protesters were saying they needed water. Now, I said at the time that these people were idiots for not bringing their own, but perhaps I wasn’t being fair to them if there were told it would be available at the protest sites...
This brings an awful interesting thought to my mind though:
Bush was blamed when people didn’t have enough clean drinking water after Hurricane Katrina despite the fact that getting supplies in there was a logistical nightmare in Louisiana, but Obama and the Dems couldn’t even get their act together when they knew MONTHS in advance there would be crowds that needed water? That really bodes well for what he would do in the case of an emergency, doesn’t it?
EXACTLY!!!
...and these people want to run our country...
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