Posted on 06/25/2012 2:08:54 PM PDT by IbJensen
The very short version:
President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a campaign speech on Monday, in the town of Durham, NH. This will cost the town an estimated sixteen to thirty thousand dollars in additional overtime for cops and fire officials and whatnot.
The town is taking the position that while they’d be happy to eat the cost for a Presidential visit, a campaign stop by the President is a different story; the town also claims that they’ve asked previous campaigns to foot the bill for overtime/costs. Obama for America has declined to do this, claiming that the Secret Service wants the extra security in place (this is fast becoming OfA’s favorite excuse for bad visuals); the town is now contemplating symbolically dis-inviting the President. If passed, then hi-jinks will then presumably ensue.
No, really, that was the really short version.
Let’s break this down into several parts.
First, the merits… well, how much merit Durham’s claim has depends on how you look at it, and whether the town really has made a distinction between campaign and official stops. It’s also in some ways the most irrelevant part of the problem facing Obama for America right now… and likely to be the one that they myopically fixate upon, bless their hearts. Because the second problem for the Democrats is how this looks. This isn’t 2008. The country doesn’t feel as rich as it did. Particularly since Obama hit Mitt Romney a couple of weeks ago with a campaign ad accusing Mitt Romney of… not wanting to pay for firemen and cops.
Oops.
Anyway, the point here is that a thirty grand overtime bill is not exactly a hill that you’d expect Obama for America to die on; regardless of the relative merits, the optics are sufficiently poor that it’ll probably cost them more than thirty grand’s worth of headaches. It is, in fact, the sort of thing that campaign money is for; making problems go away that might otherwise stomp on the smooth delivery of a campaign’s message. The Obama campaign really should have just smiled tightly, and paid up. Unless… they’re, you know, feeling the pinch these days. To the point where thirty grand looks as much like real money to them as it does to most of the people reading this article.
Try not to despair about this. There is a silver lining. First we have 20G’s wasted early in the election cycle and second the precident has been set and they’ll have to be coming up with these kind of payoffs for the rest of the campaign. Is it possible that the DNC will bankrupt itself before it does the nation?
Barry, like most muslims, is such a cheapskate.
It’s really hard to fathom those Lib Prog Regressives who not only plan to vote on this Hugo Chavez wannabee, but who really think he’s been a great POTUS!!
Depressing only begins to describe my frustration, confusion and total disdain…
Law enforcement in NH just needs to say that if somebody from the feds calls them for help they will simply “decline to take the call” - just like JANET NAPOLITANO IS SIMPLY DECLINING TO TAKE CALLS FROM ARIZONA POLICE, DANG IT!!!!
Turnabout’s fair play. If the feds are going to choose who to play with, then the states can darn well do the same - and NOBODY WANTS TO PLAY WITH A CHEAT. (And everybody in the Obama regime is a cheat!)
I guess that the other option is that the city simply refuses to provide the services. That’s what the party boys and girls at secret service are for.
What happens if the local authorities just say no and inform the campaign and the SS in advance? The SS won’t let the shining one appear without adequate security. I presume the local officials will then be threatened if they don’t get with the program, but it would be fun to watch.
How about the local authorities say the the Obama campaign is welcome to come but that the city must remain neutral and is not legally able to cover any cost which might support either campaign.
Is the Secret Service also asking the City of Durham to provide the prostitutes, or is that only for overnight stays outside the US?
addendum: The city might suggest that it would be more appropriate for the State Democratic Party fund the campaign stop-over.
LOL
Obama owes a debt of $55,480 to the City of Springfield, IL for a 2008 campaign rally that he has been refusing to pay.
Obama, and his criminal staffers, are freeloading communists.
They despise this nation and everything it once stood for many decades ago, but yet they suck up the bloated dollars and the perks to an extent that goes beyond criminal!
The nation is sick and dying and ‘Progressivism’, liberalism and disguised communism is the disease. Obama is a carrier.
Yes, the local officials will be threated by an NAACP boycott. (Wouldn’t that be scary?)
At any rate, it will be nothing compared to what the leftist loonies will do if this imbecilic socialist muslim isn’t reelected in order to complete his murder of America.
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