look a little like a shar pei ... well, not so much the ears, but ...
Posted on 01/15/2010 4:36:48 PM PST by IrishMike
One year after his election, Barack Obama's approval rating is lower at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower. So why has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared so suddenly?
Every Wednesday at 4.30pm : a steady human trickle rolling down a ravine in Prestonsburg, western Kentucky towards the Town Branch church. They come in pick-ups, on foot, alone and with families. Some stop for just a few minutes. Others linger. They come for food and warm second-hand clothes. They come because desperation in this part of America has become a routine part of life.
More than a quarter of the families in Prestonsburg live in poverty; half of the children in Floyd County, where it is situated, are on food stamps. This Appalachian coal mining area has never been rich. But no one can remember when it has ever been this poor either. It sits on the old Route 23 – the country music highway of which Dwight Yoakam (a Floyd Country native) sang in Readin', Rightin', Route 23. It was the road that took people north to factory jobs in places such as Detroit and Cleveland and "the good life they had never seen". Now those cities are broke and there's nowhere left to go.
"We're getting more and more people coming here as time goes by," says Tom Price, who helps administer the church's Feed My Sheep pantry. "The bottom's just fallen out of it all." He blames it on Barack Obama. "Is there a direct correlation [between Obama's victory and the region's bad times]? I don't know. But I do know a lot of people are hurting."
A week may be a long time in politics. But a year has not been enough for the Democratic president to meet the expectations of his candidacy..
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
And it's Friday, I just had fish (shrimp and cod fillets) for dinner.
Typical Brit git to juxtapose his lie WITHIN THE SAME GRAF.
Tried three times and can’t think of something that won’t get me banned.
It is not a coincidence. This economic slowdown could have been turned around but instead of incentives for small businesses and corporations to hire our would be third world socialist President decides the government isn’t big enough and that it wasn’t spending enough money. He also decides the government is handling its existing programs so well that it should take over the Health care system and that because energy cost is so low and people are so well off in this bad economy that he’ll regulate and tax energy even more through Cap and Trade. These guys are driving with their guys closed.
They think the people on the ground are just stupid and will follow the “dear leader” where ever he leads.
They are going to find out who is in control.
Shades of J.G. Ballard’s “Hello America”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_America
...Eventually the Apollo Expedition comes across survivors from the previous expedition thirty years earlier. One of these survivors - clearly insane - has taken to calling himself “President Charles Manson,” but none of the Apollo’s crew get the reference because the Manson killings occurred 120 years earlier in a completely different world.
What's part white, part black and lower than whale poop?
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The last few days when I see obama’s mug on tv, I hear this song in my head: FIRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
Wasnt one of the first things the Current Regime did when he was sworn in, was to eliminate some sorts of coal use?
It’s like the ice storm in Arkansas last winter - the victims are just Crackers, so they don’t matter to the democrats.
Ubama could make communism work if only people who work hard for a living to provide for their families weren’t so stingy with their money.
Unless the bikes had training wheels, they'd never make it.
How many billions of white tax dollars do you figure are going to get dumped into Haiti in order to return the place to the thriving slum it once was?
The only downside to watching that boogerflinging commie nitwit tank is the fact that he’ll retaliate with even more malevolent, destructive policies against what’s left of our republic. One real difference between BO and Carter is that Carter’s hatred for this country came after he was voted out of office, BO came into office that way. BO feels the same about us as his pastor Jerry Wright does.
Obviously, the Guardian reporter is from the UK. Prestonburg and Floyd County are in Eastern Kentucky.
The area's problems are obviously attributable to one thing: The Obama administration and the Democrat Congress demonizing coal.
If this part of the country isn't mining coal, it's on welfare. Sorry, but that's all there is to it...
Very funny ...
Enough to enrich a new generation of corrupt leaders, and tide them over until the next disaster.
The most efficient way to get relief supplies to the people would be to ship them to the Dominican Republic and truck them into Haiti.
A 20-something flaming liberal co-worker of mine loudly ranted "Why can't the Democrats get anything done? They have a super majority! I have to give the Republicans credit. They get things done!" So the comment in the article is not just one liberal's opinion...
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