Posted on 06/27/2012 1:58:59 PM PDT by george76
Barack Obama will fly to Colorado Springs Friday to tour the scene of the Waldo Canyon Fire, which continues to ravage homes and forest on the edge of Colorado’s second most populous city.
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Politically, the fire offers Obama a chance to be on the ground in a key swing state assuming the responsibilities of actually being President.
Further, with the Supreme Court set to issue its ruling on the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, traveling to the fire lines on Friday offers the President an opportunity to attempt to turn the page should the Court rule part or all of his landmark healthcare law to be unconstitutional.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
Yeah,
Like these firefighters and police don’t have enough to deal with without this baboso coming in for a photo opp.
The fool will be in one of the most conservative strongholds of the state.
Probably a fundraiser.
Wonder if the fire fighting airplanes are grounded while AF One is sight seeing on the way to the next fund raising campaign cash event ?
Where's Waldo?
He’s likely to look around at the smoke and flames and say, “Not done yet.”
We don’t need his stinkin’, photo op, useless butt in our State. He can look at pictures on the internet.
He’s going to ask the victims to donate their insurance money to his campaign?
You ask a very good question george76, I’ll ask AOPA and try to get back to ya.
Obama Bureaucrats Are Fueling Wildfires.
former Forest Service official and bomber pilot Tony Kern ... “You need to have the airplanes available now.” Veteran wildland firefighter Bill Gabbert... “The USFS should have awarded contracts for at least 20 additional air tankers, not seven.”
thanks
I would expect him to try to sell some of the donated food for the campaign.
This idiot needs to stay home until the fire is out. There are to many brave and selfless people here working the fire lines. We don’t need 0bozo here screwing up the logistics of the situation. Besides, I don’t want to hear him say that junior should empty out his piggy bank for the “Forward” cause.
Where’s Waldo? (pretty sure I’m late)...
Does it have a golf course ?
On foot, alone?
The state has been burning for days. He jetted off to at least two fund raisers during that time.
The state has been burning for days. He jetted off to at least two fund raisers during that time.
Tree-killing bark beetles decimated 550,000 acres of forests in Colorado and Wyoming last year, bringing the total area ravaged by the insects in both states to 4 million acres since 1996, the U.S. Forest Service said on Sunday.
“The significance is that the trajectory is moving north and east into more visible and populated areas,” Janelle Smith, spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service, told Reuters.
Federal and state foresters just released their annual aerial survey of impacted lands across the two Rocky Mountain states. The main culprit is the mountain pine beetle responsible for infesting 400,000 acres in Colorado and southern Wyoming.
The burrowing insects are moving into ponderosa pine forests from lodgepole pine stands along the Continental Divide, Smith said.
The spruce beetle, more active in southern Colorado, attacked an additional 150,000 acres in 2010, the report noted.
The 4-million-acre combined tally accounts for less than a quarter of the estimated 17.5 million acres of trees attacked by bark beetles across the interior American West as a whole, including Idaho, Montana, Utah and New Mexico, since the 1990s, the Forest Service said.
In between raking in millions of dollars for his election, and golfing this smug ass is now going to pretend like he gives a damn about the hundreds of people who have lost their homes.
He sucks.
In between raking in millions of dollars for his election, and golfing this smug ass is now going to pretend like he gives a damn about the hundreds of people who have lost their homes.
He sucks.
What they really need is to have Gore schedule a global warming emergency speech in Boulder. The heat wave would be certain to break.
I bet it grounds all the tanker flights due to AirFarce Zero being in the air. What a dipsh*t he is!
Sweet!
In fact, he’s auctioning off the opportunity to fly on the plan with him to gullible supporters. /sarcasm
Sweet!
Sorry to threadjack, however, does anyone know where Obama is today? Hubby just got home and was telling me that the rumor is that he is going to visit the Joliet Cat plant to rub elbows with the striking union workers. I thought it was unlikely, but he does need to shore up his standing with the unions, so I suppose it is possible.
apologoze for the language in advance, but I am looking at the Waldo smoke cloud...
Obama’s environazi allies set the conditions for this fire by refusing to allow roads that might “hurt the forest”
then his fool minions cancelled the normal contract for aerial tankers with a private company
Mr President - STAY THE HELL OUT OF COLORADO!!
he didn’t bother to show his mug at other national disasters, now he starts to show up at them?
“Obama’s environazi allies set the conditions for this fire by refusing to allow roads that might “hurt the forest”
then his fool minions cancelled the normal contract for aerial tankers with a private company”
Hate to say this but this fire is because conditions are so extremely dry that everything that usually never burns is burning. This has nothing to do with lack of controlled burns, roads, logging, nothing except 6% average humidity and no rain and very little snow this past winter. It is simply because everything is dry.
As far as tankers, we’ve got tankers, lots and lots of tankers. In fact, the skies are busy with tankers. We even have thousands of firefighters. As the governor said, Colorado is getting everything they ask for and more but things are simply so dry that every breeze pushes the fire further out.
I’ve lived here for 25 years and have never seen this dry of conditions.
Not good!
I was gonna ask, not to belittle in any way this terrible (and ongoing) tragedy, but wouldn’t Waldo Canyon be really hard to find?
sorry - I throw the BS flag. Have you seen them scramble to bulldoze a road thru the forest by greem mountain falls? This is the type of action that should have been done years ago but was fought by the envirowacks.
You are correct - it is dry. Howwever, the answer is to cut the dead tress, particularly the beetle kill in the NW part of the state, before the burn and destroy the topsoil. Give the wood away to the pellet manufacturers and let them take care of the problem pro actively.
A road? You think a road would stop that fire? I call BS that you know forest fires. They jumps roads like I jump a crack in the sidewalk. Also, there is very little beetlekill in these fire areas. We’re talking green trees so dry they are blow torches when caught on fire.
I sat and WACTHED the fire run down a near vertical mountain face and burn hundreds of homes. Watched it. No enviro-weenie stopped us from doing anything that could have protected those homes. At some point you have to stop blaming everyone else for mother nature. Liberals blame humans for everything but then so are you.
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