Posted on 02/20/2009 11:07:27 AM PST by pabianice
Even as President Barack Obama told the nation's mayors they now have a friend in the White House, he warned that he would use the "full power" of the presidency to expose and crack down on them if they misuse the economic stimulus dollars meant to boost the economy out of its doldrums.
Obama cautioned the mayors todqy that the American people had placed their trust in their political leaders to spend the $787 billion wisely and that such trust would be squandered if mayors and other officials wound up wasting the money on dubious projects.
"If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money I will not hesitate to call them out on it and put a stop to it," Obama told mayors who gathered in the White House. "And I want everybody here to be on notice that if a local government does the same. I will call them out on it and use the full power of my office and our administration to stop it."
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“cinically insane”?
Doubt it.
On a grand power trip?
Definitely.
Thank you both for your answers.
It’s truly frightening that a man with such issues has the most important position in the world.
Someone posted a poem he wrote about his encounter with Frank Marshall Davis; it sent chills up my spine. I think Obama was sexually abused.
It is very scary. We have a mentally ill man and a fool as his 2nd in command running the US.
It's "revolutionary"in the worst sense of the word!
It is scary that he is also mentally ill besides being a marxist. One of those is bad enough. Both is terrifying.
God help us.
Obama wrote an Executive Order this week establishing a new either cabinet position or department called Urban Community Mayors, which reports to him, so they can keep track of community info...something like a Mayor Community Organizer Group.
and they will be put on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION
I wish your psychologist would talk to my clients who are all psychologists - they all have Obama signs in their offices and think he is the Savior of the world!!! One of them isn’t a client anymore because I just decided there are more important things than taking money from someone with his way, way, way, way, far left views. He is Jewish and I commented that IMO, Israel must be saved regardless of the cost. That started the downward spiral. I just don’t understand.
If you look at the number of projects aproved for each state, Texas is right at the top of the list and I guarantee you our Mayor will take 150% of his share. The Dimwits have Texas in their crosshairs and want the state back in 2010. Barney Franks even visited this week. Heard an awesome new Black voice speak last Tuesday - he’s on www.RagingElephants.org. Says people vote for people who look like them, even though they totally disagree with their political position; that the majority of Blacks are very spiritual but they totally leave it in church; we won’t win in 2010 unless we engage in some serious conversion politics; Obama’s troops haven’t quit campaigning while the Republicans are still licking their wounds.
Because he has no inentions of doing so. Simple as that.
Guess who is 4th in line for the presidency and is rarely in DC. Experts agree DC is the logical choice for the next terror attack in the USA. I wonder, could a facebook army/flash mob of even 1,000 islamic jihadis rolling in on DC at one time be stopped if they had the kind of training, planning, inside help and were armored/doped up like the Mumbai killers. Dang, someone in the Fed might read this and war game it to be sure they could respond. Dang.
No wound licking going on. The people who have are essentially in shock. The have nots have never been happier. At least that the way I see it. Have nots are getting support. Haves are getting ruined with their life savings and homes being crushed. So this pretty much a revolution unfolding right before our eyes.
When King Hussein speaks, you better listen.
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