Clinton Wears Out His Welcome (in Harlem)

Captain's Quarters ^ | 7/20/06 | Captain Ed

[MJY1288]

LOL, This needs to be forwarded to Rush, He will have a field day with this tomorrow

[MAD-AS-HELL]

do you think you'll hear about this anywhere other than maybe the local paper or TV station? If it was a republican president, you can bet your illegally downloaded music collection that it would be a page one story and on the nightly news every night for a week.

[VOA]

bump

[VOA]

It's unfair of Harlem residents to target Clinton for their woes, or at least him alone.

LOL! I'm sure there's enough blame to go around.
Enough for The New York Times to find that...
"It's Bush's Fault"

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Trouble in paradise?

[ansel12]

"His decision and the $354,000 lease created headlines for weeks."



You guys are laughing, but among us poor people, not being able to find space at $354,000.00 anymore, is a crushing hardship.

[Williams]

The complaint is he has improved the area and raised property values?

[auzerais]

Here is the original NY Sun article it came from: http://www.nysun.com/article/36435

[Erik Latranyi]

Let me be clear, I did not have gentrification with that Harlem....not once!

[RichInOC]

Today, that decision has created different headlines. His formerly enthusiastic neighbors now blame him for the increasing gentrification of Harlem, raising rents and displacing the disadvantaged...

Yeah, they say that now. The fact is, he finally despoiled one too many of his neighbors' daughters.

[kromike]

Maybe Bubba should do the George Jefferson jive-shuffle, singing "Movin' on up!"...

[kylaka]

They should count their blessings that Clinton's office choice was only symbolic. Otherwise they'd be complaining about outbreaks of Aids, genital herpes, clymydia, and a significant increase in teen pregnancy.

[Holicheese]

How many times do you think Clinton has actually stepped foot into that office?
I bet you can count them on one hand.
He probably only has a old stained pull out couch and a huge bottle of kamasutra oil in there.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Bump for tomorrow. I'm too tired to truly enjoy it tonight.

[Timedrifter]

The complaint is he has improved the area and raised property values?

That place had to have been pretty bad before he got there if the arrival of trailer trash in the neighborhood raises property values.

[bannie]

"There goes the neighborhood."

billyblytheclinton ruins every neighborhood he leaches off of.

[VanShuyten]

Oh... You mean rich people moving into poor people's neighborhoods doesn't actually make those poor people richer unless they own their homes, which means they aren't really all that poor and can only get richer if they sell their homes, and the ones that only can afford to rent, which is pretty much everyone in a truly poor neighborhood, all see their rents jump. Thanks Bubba.

[george76]