Posted on 02/20/2009 2:02:24 PM PST by Dallas59
Edited on 02/20/2009 2:32:24 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
President Barack Obama said Friday that residents of the US Gulf Coast still are trying to rebuild three years after Hurricane Katrina and have not received the support they deserve from Washington.
His words amounted to sharp, though indirect, criticism of former President George W. Bush's oversight of the Katrina recovery efforts. Katrina was blamed for more than 1,600 deaths and $41 billion in property damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at sefermpost.com ...
Oooooohhhh...aint gonna be long before some folks get fed up and realize they don’t have anything to lose by mouthing off or taking other actions.
People are looking at the remaining boxes ... vote box and jury boxes have failed ... climbing up on the soap box and praying no one has to reach for the last one.
Ya know...I’ve never wished a Cat 5 storm on anyone before now.
Too late for 0bama. He already failed in Kentucky during his first month in office.
Obama’s forgotten people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP-YoB5mnZs
Obama's fourth week in office
President Barack Obama said Friday that residents of the US Gulf Coast still are trying to rebuild three years after Hurricane Katrina and have not received the support they deserve from Washington.
Obama Stimulus Saves Microsoft Billionaire Hundreds Of Millions
Chas W. Freeman Jr. former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia is about to be named as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Freeman is noted for his belief that that ALL MUSLIM TERRORISM stems from Israel's battle with the Palestinians.
Obama’s Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn — an idea that has angered drivers in some (every) states where it has been proposed.
Obama orderes an in-depth study of the prison camps to decipher whether the terrorists and alleged terrorists at Gitmo are properly treated and that U.S. troops are abiding by the Geneva Conventions. The report,shows that Gitmo “complies with the humanitarian requirements of the Geneva conventions” and that the prisoners are treated with dignity.
Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of Race
The Obama administration pledges to the Palestinian Authority it will closely monitor Jewish construction in the West Bank and will protest any new housing developments in the biblical territory.
Obama wants to drop sanctions against the murderous military junta in Burma (Myanmar)
The Environmental Protection Agency says that it will consider whether to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants, in a potential reversal of Bush administration policy.
Lisa Jackson, the new E.P.A. administrator under Obama, has granted its petition that the agency reconsider a controversial decision in December by Stephen Johnson, the Bush administration’s E.P.A. administrator, stating that officials weighing federal applications by utilities to build new coal-fired power plants cannot consider their greenhouse gas output.
Obama states his opposition to the Fairness Doctrine while historically supporting the suppression of talk radio by FCC “Ownership Diversity”
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials. The decision would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power.
the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. "It would make it easier for the communications guys to pass along information without being obvious about it," says the adviser.
Obama is disses the Brit's most famous and stalwart leader, Winston Churchill by returning the most famous bust of the man loaned to this country by the United Kingdom in the aftermath of 9//11
Obama has begun to indicate that he's willing to reconsider the Bush administration’s push to deploy a ballistic missile defense system, contrary to his repeated campaign promises to the contrary.
Obama's main advisor David Axelrod changes his goes back on Obama's position on the Fairness doctrine. He would not give definitive answer and left room for the Fairness Doctrine to be revisited.
Obama administration will participate in planning for a UN conference on racism dubbed "Durban II," despite concerns that the meeting will be used by Arab nations and others to demonize Israel.
Before Obama went there...it was a ghetto
The whole time he was there...it was a ghetto.
And to this very day...it’s till a ghetto.
Via - Redstate/ Guess who benefited from this scam:
Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.
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And although he has distanced himself from Rezko, Obama has remained close to others in the development community. Jarrett participates in the campaign’s senior staff meetings. And Obama chose another close friend, Martin Nesbitt, as his campaign treasurer. Nesbitt is chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, one of the key overseers of the shift toward private management and development.
Read the whole article. It is damning. Close friends, critical campaign fundraisers, and important supporters make a bunch of money off of government subsidized housing projects while the projects themselves fall into disrepair and the tenants suffer. Obama claims to know nothing about all this money being wasted and his friends bilking the system.
Instead of development and growth it is just another story of Chicago politics where the powerful and connected make money and poor people are left to suffer; where the government pours more and more money into projects with the same results. This is hope and change? This is Obama’s home turf. This is supposedly one of his passions.
And yet look what the people working on this issue are left to say:
Jamie Kalven, a longtime Chicago housing activist, put it this way: “I hope there is not much predictive value in his history and in his involvement with that community.”
They are left to hope that Obama’s rhetoric has more meaning than his actual actions and history. This is a recipe for disappointment and disaster.
Ignore his words and look at his record. That is the only way we can avoid a repeat at the national level where the stakes are even higher.
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Paul Johnson, who helped to organize the protest, said Obama must have known about the problems.
“How didn’t he know?” said Johnson. “Of course he knew. He just didn’t care.”
Thanks for posting that.
They are still living off the taxpayer. They got giftcards, free hotel rooms etc. They griped about having to eat MRE’s. My son, who served in the military 6 years, was saying MRE’s were pretty good.
Useless eaters they are.
Unlike the people in Kentucky last week.
LOL! Oh that’s gonna go over like a pregnant pole vaulter everywhere, except New Orleans.
There is like $150 billion Katrina funds appropriated but not spent - still.
Perhaps if their idiot mayor and equally as stupid governor had planned and reacted appropriately, these people wouldn’t be in this situation. Even better, perhaps if these people were able to take responsibility for themselves rather than rely on their idiot leaders, they wouldn’t be in this situation.
After a month of using the White House website to slander President Bush, they’ve finally removed President Bush’s name from the bit about Katrina on the website. Low-class weasels.
web site ProPublica.org turned on a change tracking system aimed at several key administration web sites, including whitehouse.gov. Today they spotted a very interesting change had occurred - the text that formerly bashed President Bush’s treatment of Hurricane Katrina had been altered to eliminate the most insulting portions of text.
White House Site Un-Slams Bush on Katrina http://www.propublica.org/article/white-house-site-un-slams-bush-on-katrina
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