Obama to Tennessee–Tough Luck Cracker Honky Whitey

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[big black dog]

Between the stock market collapsing with help from a “clerical error,” the New York terror plot, Greece going bankrupt, leftist protesters from Greece to America going bonkers, and of course JaMarcus Russell being released by the Oakland Raiders (ok, so good news does come in small doses), and the oil disaster that is soooo last week, it seems that much of the country has ignored the tragedy of the flooding in Tennessee.

30 people died in the torrential rainstorm, and Kentucky got belted hard as well.

At least President Obama issued moving emotional remarks while touring the ravaged area.

Oh wait…never mind.

Barack Obama had a simple message to the people of Tennessee. In the new post-partisan, post-racial Obamaworld, he offered his sentiments.

“Tough luck, cracker honky whitey.”

After all, why would Mr. Obama spend one minute helping Tennessee? Why would he want to help people who vote Republican (supporting George W. Bush over Al Gore, who claimed to be from there), watch football, love NASCAR, believe in a Christian God, and supported the South in the Civil War?

Why would he care if the Grande Old Opry shuts down? Does anybody think he loses an ounce of sleep over suffering country musicians? After all, country music is for white rednecks.

If enough people in Tennessee die, there will be fewer Republicans alive.

Mr. Obama obviously does not care about white people, and deliberately withheld any government aid to maximize the suffering.

This is where liberals start screeching their famous liberal screech.

They will start mouthing nonsense about how being president is a hard job. The president cannot be in a million places at once. While immediately going to Tennessee might be good symbolic policy, it might not be smart from a logistical standpoint.

They will say that I have every right to offer criticism that I can back up, but wild speculation about what is in his heart is totally unfair. He could very well be taking steps to minimize the pain, and we owe him the benefit of the doubt.

They would be right.

Now if only the left would stop being such a bunch of insufferable hypocrites.

How many times did we hear that George W. Bush didn’t care about black people? That he deliberately took no action during Hurricane Katrina so that black suffering would be exacerbated?

It was garbage. The only mistake George W. Bush made during that time was being far too gracious to critics not fit to lick his Texas boots.

He never got an ounce of credit for quick action that led to 30,000 people, many of them black, being airlifted to safety.

He faced a natural disaster, was in constant contact with people on the ground, and did his best.

The situation in Katrina was unprecedented. Unprecedented means exactly that.

It wasn’t his fault that liberal politicians screwed up Louisiana to begin with. Only a leftist shill could praise Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco. They did more damage than Michael Brown at FEMA ever could.

When Bush told “Brownie” that he was doing a “heckuva job,” that was to boost morale. What was he supposed to do, berate the guy on national television? That would have helped the rescue efforts, if one calls walking off the job a rescue.

President Bush was beaten like a rented mule by people who hated his guts for no other reason than that is who they are and how they behave.

Barack Obama has a tough job. He is doing the best he can. He is getting some things right and too many things wrong.

He should be criticized for his missteps, and stop being so petulant with people who refuse to see him as perfect. He needs to drop the arrogance and develop humility.

Yet I will not question his heart. I have never met the man, or broken bread with him. He may very well care about the people of Tennessee.

I know George W. Bush cared about the suffering in New Orleans. He was a devout religion who obeyed Christian teachings. Those teachings demanded that he care about the most vulnerable among us. Those who attack him for being guided by Christianity cannot pick and choose which aspects of the religion he obeyed. Most Christians I know give more to charity and do more to help combat suffering than the average person.

George W. Bush was never given the benefit of the doubt by the left…never.

If the left wants Barack Obama to be given the benefit of the doubt, they need to stop the abuse of conservatives.

I will do my part. George W. Bush will be vindicated.

Being the president is hard work. He did his best, and he did so with honor, grace, class, humility, dignity, and decency.

I know some people in Tennessee who would welcome the warmth that he and Laura Bush had for people.

There is little perceived warmth with his successor Dr. Spock. He is as cold as the rain that tormented Tennessee.

Those who suggest I be fair may wish to look in the mirror.

Mr. Obama needs to put his head down and do his job. If he does the right thing, the truth will get out.

If he doesn’t, that will get out as well, no matter how many MSNBC anchors praise their god.

Tennessee needs help. Get to work Mr. Obama. You may not gain electoral votes, but you might gain something more important.

[patriot08]

Looked up death toll for Katrina. 1,836 deaths, and 81 billion is damages according to Wikipedia. 1577 death in Louisiana alone with 135 listed as still missing.
Katrina redistributed over one million people from the central Gulf coast elsewhere across the United States, which became the largest diaspora in the history of the United States.[69] Houston, Texas, had an increase of 35,000 people.

In Texas, where more than 300,000 refugees were located, local officials ran 20,000 criminal background checks on the refugees, as well as on the relief workers helping them and people who opened up their homes. The background checks found that 45% of the refugees had a criminal record of some nature, and that 22% had a violent criminal record.[84] The number of homicides in Houston from September 2005 through February 22, 2006 went up by 23% relative to the same period a year before; 29 of the 170 murders involved displaced Louisianans as victims or suspects.[85]

[Flag_This]

"recall he didn’t give a rats @ss about kentucky when they had that ice storm. tn or ky? too may typical, bitter, clingers down there."

It's okay. We didn't need his useless a$$ down here trying to score political points.

[Republic]

WOW! Thank you so much for that information! Sounds like Texas took quite a blow from character issues with the displaced people. That is just sad. And so wrong.

The death toll is higher than I thought it would be. That is a tragedy, and yet still, mother nature with all of her wrath, did not kill as many as a few dirtbag muslims did on nine/eleven.

Thanks for taking the time to do that. I was thinking that 30 is a terrible toll for a flood.

[FrankR]

"He can’t ‘politicize’ the Nashville floods. Not enough ‘minorities’.

Well, the only people that ploy works for anymore IS the minorities...obama has pushed the race envelope to where I, for one, don't give a damn anymore.

I think barry-boy hates his mama...she, and his grandmother, were both "typical white people"...so therefore - in his entitlement based frontal lobe, all whites are bad...except those, of course, who can give him something...but isn't that always the case.

He made it - by hook or crook - to the presidency of the United States, and he still needs affirmative action to get by.

No, he doesn't even give a damn about the states that DID vote for him, unless they can do something for him in the FUTURE. If you helped him, or voted for him, in the past, he got what he wanted from you for the moment, so now you are navel lint.

He's a stinkin' little brat, selfish in every way possible, wanting his way, and giving away his toys (that WE buy for him) to get people to "play" with him.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Damned straight.

[SaraJohnson]

Yes he does.

“No No No No No! Not God Bless America! God Damn America!...”

Rev. Wright, Obama’s minister of twenty years.

[ArmyTeach]

If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.
The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet…no one knows about it.
Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.
But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.
Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.
Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.
And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.
Because we are Nashville.
L. S. In Nashville

[patriot08]

Knowing Wiki, they probably white-washed the crime that befell Houston when they took in the refugees.

I’ve heard it said by many Houstonians that they regretted their kindness after the refugees hit and began to rape, rob, hijarck cars and destroy in general.
Many are still there living off Houston’s wefare system.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2006-01-04ng.html

[GailA]

Please don’t forget 52 counties were hard hit not only by the flooding but by 13 small twisters. Millington, TN was the city in Shelby Co hit the worse, when the Big Creek Levy broke flooding the Navy base and Navy housing. Along with the Shady Oaks Trailer Court 300+ units were under 7-8 feet of water. And our governor nowhere to be seen in West Tennessee. Just saw the first FEMA agent on the news 3 tonight 7 days later. We look like a war zone. And what little coverage is of Nashville, on CNN, not FNC.

Gail Honadle

Millington, Flooding photos & video

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/category.asp?C=186748

Millington, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrIVHym7PQ

For those with Face Book accounts Photos of the Navy Base in Millington.

http://www.facebook.com/NSAMidSouth
Rail Bridges Out Between Memphis & Nashville

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-rail-bridges-out,0,4332240.story

Dyersburg flooding photos

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-water-recedes-dyersburg,0,430243.story

http://www.wreg.com/videobeta/?watchId=d58798dc-7f37-4842-aab5-88018dbbb79e

http://www.commercialappeal.com/photos/galleries/2010/may/05/dyersburg-flooding/

Hickman CO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rzp-DHQLQA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORsSPTumm9I

Dyer Co Dyersburg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBr297p-5Vk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5elxGUYvmQ8

Sumner Co
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShYDrYXs6K0

Clarksville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_usIjjGfY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7t8OYyB24

West Tennessee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIQEQSfYxKc

Jackson, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blX4URAWskQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwnoAHcl-U&feature=related
Rebel Cove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPh0vVoAYek&feature=related

Humboldt, TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJZDrU1S_w&feature=related

NG responds to AR & TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BkKa9NoTNg

You Tube videos of the flooding across TN and 1 from MS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXKdcg7jMIQ&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrIVHym7PQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcqKgaDLgDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-l5ZKKwmw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gYhLKwSp4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tU4pSDc9Ig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ZMFDSocAY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKhIuQoRNR4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bywotLxMGuY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3pgF-24M0&feature=related

[GailA]

NO one but local TV news, limited in scope covered the damage in AR and MS that happened at the same time. Twisters and flash flooding and deaths.

[GailA]

From State Rep Tony Shipley

I was so touched by Rep Phillip Johnson’s (District 78) near tearful report of his districts dire situation. His wonderful story of how Tennesseans, just plain folks in bass boats worked to rescue their neighbors, serves to remind all os us, black, white, brown, green, yellow, pink and purple...no matter....WE ARE TENNESSEE! Thursday, members were comparing notes... See More and asking if there was anything that any district needed. No one offered their county EMS or Rescue...just their willingness to step into the gap and organize moms and dads, neighbors and business associates into a temporary volunteer force. My admiration goes out to Rep Phillip Johnson for helping coordinate his rural counties rescue response! Well done Rep Johnson. We done Tennessee!

[GailA]

Telethon thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2508747/posts

[TruJess]

*They will start mouthing nonsense about how being president is a hard job. The president cannot be in a million places at once. While immediately going to Tennessee might be good symbolic policy, it might not be smart from a logistical standpoint.*

Hmmmm. Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? It’s 2007, north San Diego and south Escondido have been ravaged by fire. President Bush surveyed the damage from the sky, then traveled to the devastated neighborhoods in Rancho Bernardo. He spoke with residents, promised to replace a ball autographed by Nolan Ryan, and hugged those who had nothing left. He took the time to let people know that, despite all of the other things going on in the country and around the world, their grief and fear and pain mattered to him. Even those of us who didn’t lose our houses were thankful for his visit to our little corner of the U.S. (despite the traffic mess his visit created...). It’s really that simple and the moron currently inhabiting the White House can’t even be bothered to pretend.

[stephenjohnbanker]

He attended a “ Whitey is the Devil “ church for over 20 years. That proves it.

[Eagle Eye]

I’ve heard it said by many Houstonians that they regretted their kindness after the refugees hit and began to rape, rob, hijarck cars and destroy in general.

We took in many in Pensacola when I lived there (now near Houston) and they were crooks of one sort or another and being armed in town was the only way to go.

I'm so f'n tired of hearing of N.O. Katrina 'victims'.

[patriot08]

I’m so f’n tired of hearing of N.O. Katrina ‘victims’.
________________________

You and me both, FRiend.

Take Galveston and the area (including the small town of San Leon, Tx which was practically wiped off the map)
by hurricane Ike recently. You didn’t hear about looting and you didn’t hear about them sitting around and whinning and wanting the government to support them to infinity.
Those people got together and worked hard to restore their communities.
.

[Eagle Eye]

You don’t hear whining from Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida ether.

And believe it or not, the storm impacted those states as well.

The worst part of the storm was dealing with the New Orleans human trash. OMG what scum.

[patriot08]

That’s right. No others behaved as badly as the New Orleans
people.