Posted on 08/23/2013 11:35:13 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Disappointment. Insulted. Outraged.
That's how some residents described their feelings after President Barack Obama left Auburn Friday morning without stopping by the Harriet Tubman Home.
The president, who stayed overnight at the Holiday Inn in Auburn, worked out at the Auburn YMCA before leaving the city to begin the second day of his two-day tour of upstate New York and northeastern Pennsylvania.
While in Auburn, Obama did not visit the Harriet Tubman Home or Seward House Museum. A large crowd gathered Friday morning outside of the Tubman Home in anticipation of a presidential visit. But it never happened.
Harriet Tubman Home executive director Karen Hill was being interviewed by local media outlets when she turned to the crowd and with tears in her eyes, thanked them for coming out and supporting the Tubman Home.
Assemblyman Gary Finch, R-Springport, brought his wife and grandson to the Tubman Home hoping to see the president. He was upset that Obama stayed in Auburn, but couldn't find time to visit the historic site.
"It was a slap in the face to the Harriet Tubman residence. It was a slap in the face to the city of Auburn," Finch said. "And I really honestly believe this president owes this institution and the city of Auburn an apology."
Like Finch and Hill, members of the Harriet Tubman Boosters Club were upset that Obama didn't make a trip to the Tubman Home.
Deidre Johnson-Stanford, one of Tubman's great-great grandnieces, said she hoped with Obama staying in Auburn that a Tubman Home visit would happen.
"Being so close you would just think that he would be here," she said. "But it's disappointing."
Johnson-Stanford's mother, Pauline Copes-Johnson, is Tubman's great grandniece. Copes-Johnson celebrated her 86th birthday Friday and was one of the first people to show up early in the morning to wait and see if the president would make an appearance.
"We were just hoping that she would get a glimpse of him," she said. "We're just hoping they will do something (in the future) that we don't know about."
The commercials write themselves
Reporter (off screen): "Excuse me, you in the golf jacket. You seem to be leading this operation. Do you have any military, intelligence or diplomatic credentials?"
Obama: "No, but I stayed in a Hoilday Inn last night"
He stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and STILL gets it wrong.
He should stick to Motel-6, they leave the light on, for those 3am calls...
He actually spent the night in a Holiday Inn? Where are all the super rich supporters in the area who could have made serious points by showing him a fabulous party?
Tubman was Christian and carried a gun.
Did Harriet have a sauna or bathhouse on the premises,
with glistening young black men in attendance?
No she did not. End of story.
Why would a narcissist like Obama give a damn about Harriet Tubman? If someone had wanted him to stop by, they should have erected an Obama statue on the front lawn.
So naturally in the state capital, Annapolis, there is a statue dedicated to............the fraud Alex Haley and his "Roots" plagerized, fraudulent book.
My poor state.
Tubman Home ???
Not nearly as historically significant as the Secretary of State Seward Mansion in Auburn. Seward is the reason Alaska belongs to us and not Russia.
Obama wasn't taught American history in Indonesian schools.
This.
He learned about the 57 states.
I have visited both. My parents lived in Auburn for several years.
Odumba said “ I’s don’t have to see Harriet Tubman Home, even if he did drop 2 bombs on japan.
This is an interesting observation. When the Clintons visited the area, when Bill was POTUS, they stayed at a palatial home on East Lake road in neighboring Skaneateles. Obama stays at a Holiday Inn (however, as far as Holiday Inns go, it is one of the better ones).
It might be because neighboring Skaneateles has a very vocal group of conservatives. If you recall, one of the Skaneateles restaurants named its sandwich "The Hillary", because it was mostly baloney.
He thinks he’s in the 57 state anyways.
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