After 4 Years of Obama, How Many Towns Will Look Like Greenwood, S.C.

Vocal Minority, WaPo ^ | 4/27/09 | EricTheRed_VocalMinority

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

So how is Obama really doing? Let’s ask the folks in Greenwood, S.C. It probably was not the intention, but this article from yesterday’s Washington Post [h/t/ Drudge] almost makes me weep for my country. It’s a telling anecdote about this economically disadvantaged Southern town which was gung ho for Obama on January 20, now not so much. Why? Their plight has not changed. What’s really sad is that they don’t realize it’s not going to. These citizens drank the Kool-Aid, just as many easily duped Americans have since LBJ’s Democrat-benefiting Great Society scheme.

The piece is mainly from the perspective of a councilwoman, Edith Childs, who is working around the clock to help her struggling town. Unfortunately, she’s looking for that help in all the wrong places, starting with a certain messianic figure who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Here are significant parts of the long, depressing piece. I feel bad for Ms. Childs, because writer Eli Saslow makes this clearly decent and well-meaning woman look like a real dupe ... because she is:

A Hundred Anxious Days
In a South Carolina Town Where the Downturn Has Deepened Since the Inauguration, Two Obama Supporters Have Struggled, Going From ‘Fired Up’ to Tired Out

By Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 26, 2009

GREENWOOD, S.C. Her cordless phone stores 17 voice messages, and tonight the inbox is full. Edith Childs, 60, grabs a bottle of water, tosses her hat on the living room floor

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“The response......silence.”

Mighta been the first proper response in the sequence.

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

ASD - You’re most likely right. Which goes to show the moral of the story is: No matter who’s president, government cannot help you.

[liberateUS]

"“Let them have their tea party,” Childs says. “They’re just looking for somebody to blame. My ears are full.” And your brain is empty, lady. Enjoy your town's destruction by Obama"

I live in Greenwood, and didn't recognize my own town from the story. I thought my taxes were high, but didn't realize we had a "county councilman to pay all of our bill and get us jobs program." I think I'll call my councilman about it today. I wonder if he will take some of my excess real estate off of my hands?