Who was on the manifest?
New Yorkers remain victims for Obama and his real backers.
Posted on 01/30/2010 5:48:09 AM PST by kristinn
A spokesman for the leftist think tank headed up by Obama transition chief John Podesta has insulted eight million New Yorkers, mocking them over their concerns about the Obama administration's plans to hold civilian trials in lower Manhattan for several of the 9/11 attack conspirators.
Speaking to Politico, Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress said, "Frankly, I thought New Yorkers were made of sterner stuff than this—traffic is going to be disrupted?”
Gude is listed as the Associate Director of the International Rights and Responsibility Program at CAP. His most recent paper for CAP, published January 20, is titled, Criminal Courts Are Tougher on Terrorists than Military Detention, Intelligence Collection Is Not Impeded by Access to Attorneys.
Obama's plan to hold the trials in Manhattan was initially well-received by Mayor Michael Bloomberg until this week when NYPD Chief Ray Kelly started working out a security plan that would severely disrupt for years the financial center where the federal courthouse is located and would cost the city an estimated $200 million per year.
Gude also told Politico the president needs to get in the face of those 'sissy' New Yorkers and straighten them out, "Obama and the Department of Justice need to get out there and push back very clearly with the public."
Concerned that the trial would destroy small businesses near the trial location, the Real Estate Board of New York set up a Web site called movethetrial.com.
A bi-partisan group of six U.S. Senators sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder this week urging him to change his mind on the trials, saying among other reasons they would tactically benefit al Qaeda:
“You will be providing them one of the most visible platforms in the world to exalt their past acts and to rally others in support of further terrorism. Such a trial would almost certainly become a recruitment and radicalization tool for those who wish us harm."
New Yorkers wishing to straighten Mr. Gude out can contact him at his published contact e-mail address through the Center for American Progress: kgude@americanprogress.org
Well, good for them. Then let obamination hold the trial in DC if he insists on giving them US citizen rights.
Hey, Barack... You’re sending the Front to the guy on the street.
KSM to NYC was a solution to a problem that never existed. It seems to be a common trait among Dems/Obama....cap and tax for global warming comes to mind...
It’s always someone else’s neighborhood with these guys
If the trial goes ahead in Manhattan, I would not be shocked if the people of New York City did “the right thing” with their own form of justice. There aren’t enough cops in the state to stop 8 million pissed-off New Yorkers from forcing their way into the courthouse.
Just remember to bring enough rope for ALL FIVE of the terrorists, please?
New Yorkers remain victims for Obama and his real backers.
How can you even talk with someone who thinks this way? Are they ALL delusional?
Pretty much the point of the decision to do this in the first place, eh!
OK, dumb bass, turn the house of reps into a courtroom and hold it there.
Actually, I must admit you are right. Obama is an avowed socialist/communist/facist, but even he is beginning to realize that his mantra is not going down with the American people. In fact, he is the one and only POTUS to be a “Lame Duck” after only one year in office. The media has hardly noticed that Obama has not gotten a polling uptick from his SOTU speech last week, He is probably the first POTUS that never received an upward bump in his polling numbers. Also, some four million Americans tuned him out, as amazingly his TV viewers dropped, even though his speech saturated the various types of TV networks. Basically, Obama has lost the American people and,more importantly millions of American voters including measurable numbers of Democrats. The wiser folks in the Democrat Party are coming to realize this Obama gent is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and is lacking any management skills at all!!! At some point they will revolt to save their own political skins!!!
They blame the martha coakley campaign but this admin has been one long martha coakley campaign
When they don't get their way, they behave like children.
They don’t get America. These creatures never will.
How can you even talk with someone who thinks this way? Are they ALL delusional?
YES! to quote Charles Krauthammer "in clinical denial"
“Concerned that the trial would destroy small businesses near the trial location...”
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Small businesses in lower Manhattan have already been devastated since 9/11 and the loss of the thousands of potential customers who used to work in the WTC.
This administration is on drugs.
Well now. Oboomba opened the barn door for these idiots, what does he expect? Center for American Progress and others like them telling the WH what to do? Dangerous, dangerous types we have in our midst...
They not only made their bed they dressed it all up with Obama sheets. I do believe that prior to the election Obama said he would do something like this and yet they still voted for him.>P>By county
County  |
Obama% |
Obama# |
McCain% |
McCain# |
Others% |
Others# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronx | 88.7% | 338,261 | 10.9% | 41,683 | 0.4% | 1,378 |
| New York (Manhattan) | 85.7% | 572,126 | 13.5% | 89,906 | 0.8% | 5,562 |
| Kings (Brooklyn) | 79.4% | 603,525 | 20.0% | 151,872 | 0.6% | 4,451 |
| Queens | 75.1% | 480,692 | 24.3% | 155,221 | 0.6% | 4,076 |
| Tompkins | 70.1% | 29,826 | 28.0% | 11,927 | 1.9% | 799 |
| Albany | 63.8% | 93,937 | 34.4% | 50,586 | 1.9% | 2,743 |
| Westchester | 63.4% | 261,810 | 35.8% | 147,824 | 0.8% | 3,410 |
| Ulster | 60.7% | 52,539 | 37.6% | 32,527 | 1.7% | 1,476 |
| Clinton | 60.6% | 20,216 | 37.7% | 12,579 | 1.6% | 542 |
| Franklin | 60.3% | 10,571 | 38.1% | 6,676 | 1.6% | 273 |
| Onondaga | 59.3% | 129,317 | 38.9% | 84,972 | 1.8% | 3,950 |
| Monroe | 58.2% | 207,225 | 40.5% | 144,153 | 1.3% | 4,781 |
If there is a terrorist attack near or around the trials, wherever they are held in the US, Obama and Holder are finished. I still cannot believe that they would take this big of a risk with very little reward. It proves that Obama is indeed an ideologue who cares very little about the safety of the American people.
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