THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Posted on 06/21/2008 2:10:44 PM PDT by mdittmar
MIAMI — Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, here to tell U.S. mayors that he wants to make cities the backbone of regional economic growth and innovation, ended up igniting a war of words with Republican John McCain's campaign over flooding in Iowa.
During remarks to the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting today, Obama noted that McCain had recently visited flood-devastated Iowa.
"I'm sure they appreciated the sentiment, but they probably would have appreciated it more if Sen. McCain hadn't voted against funding for levees and flood control programs, which he seems to consider pork," Obama told the mayors.
An Obama spokeswoman said the remark was a reference to McCain's opposition to a $23 billion water resources bill, which also included $2 billion for Everglades Restoration. McCain has said the bill had worthwhile elements, but was loaded with wasteful projects.
McCain's campaign accused Obama of voting against an amendment by McCain and Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin that would have given levees a higher priority than other "pork-barrel" projects.
"It is beyond the pale that Barack Obama would attack John McCain for actually trying to fix the problem and change the way Washington works. Barack Obama's willingness to continue the status quo pork-barrel politics in Washington, and then engage in political attacks that entirely disregard the facts, once again fundamentally shows that he's nothing more than a typical politician," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.
In Obama's remarks to the mayors, he said he would be their "partner in Washington" if he becomes president.
He pledged to restore federal spending on community-oriented policing programs, community development block grants and anti-poverty measures and to launch a "National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank" at a cost of $60 billion over 10 years.
"We will fund this bank as we bring the war in Iraq to a responsible close," said Obama. He said money now spent in Iraq could be better spent "in Phoenix, Nashville, Seattle and metropolitan areas across this country."
Obama also called for new incentives for state and local governments to encourage regional "clusters of growth and innovation" with cities as the backbone.
Obama also said he'd establish a new White House "director of urban policy" to help cities.
"We need to strengthen our cities," Obama said. "But we also need to stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution. Because strong cities are the building blocks of strong regions in this global economy."
Attendees included West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel, who was an early and ardent supporter of Democrat Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential bid.
"I'm with him all the way," Frankel said of Obama. She dismissed fears among Democrats that many of Clinton's supporters might not vote for Obama in November.
"I think Clinton supporters are going to come to the realization that the better choice is Obama. Clinton and Obama had similar platforms, similar values," Frankel said.
Aber naturlich. Die staedte sind sehr wichtig fuer zentralization!
The cities are very important for centralization!
The masses must be kept together for better control.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Obama has goodies in his bag for EVERYONE! Yay! Freebies! He’s the skinny, black, Muslim Santa Claus!
As long as we continue to insist that Mexico import ITS poverty to the United States, I really don’t want to hear about “anti-poverty measures.” You don’t put out a fire by throwing gasoline on it.
As long as most major US cities are run by libs who see their job as squeezing whatever life is out of the private sector to hand over to their masters at the public sector unions nothing is going to change.
Kinda scary huh?
You know what's scary? Is that this guy isn't being run out of town for the communist he is. Its' scary reading an article like this, knowing full well what he means about cities, and then driving around the countryside here seeing all the Obama stickers. It's astounding how mesmerized people are by this guy.
Why is it a shock that a Chicago machine politician nurtured on the teet of private industry donation in the educational system would believe that more of the same prognosis is for the better?
That’s the way Ayers prescribed the plan to Obama years back. And no one especially Obama is discussing that relationship.... yet.
Hopefully one day it will be.
Yup. Baltimore, Detroit, DC and other Demcratic urban areas will make out big under BHO. Their corrupt city govenments will have lots of pork to hand out to their buddies, who will perpetuate poverty and futility in their regions.
This election will be the Mega Cities vs. the rest of the country.
Does this Harvard graduate not understand the importance of agriculture to the U.S. economy?
Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangalore....
That’s why I live in the country. By the way, you can’t control the Mississippi river. With weather like what is going on now, levees won’t help a thing. As for the cities being a problem.........they are ghettos. Even Las Vegas is becoming a ghetto. Only way to handle it is to round them up and clear them out.
Those of us in the heartland already knew that.
Maybe it’s time to remember what William Jenning Bryant said regarding farms and cities.
Well,these politicians have always been full of themselves,it's up to us to keep them honest.
I’m not sure why that was a reply to me.
Actually, whoever wrote it is clearly not a conservative. Neither is an idea of government, both are ideas of statist economics. One can’t legislate prosperity for anyone, save a short-lived prosperity based on state-instituted theft, and therefore one shouldn’t try.
Among the many ideas of government are two: that the government can legislate prosperity, and that the government best aids prosperity by avoiding legislating. The first always fails, the second generally works.
My mistake,thanks.
looks kinda like a sell ready to divide...
You're lucky. The copyright application hasn't gone through yet. (you could at least show me where you used it - I might want to join the fun)
:)
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