How's that vote workin' out for ya, Sparky?
Posted on 11/03/2014 9:50:34 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job — working as a $42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — was the best he ever had.
The high point was an afternoon seven weeks ago when he was assigned to accompany President Obama, who was visiting the agency’s headquarters here for a briefing on the Ebola epidemic. It was not only that Mr. Tate’s bosses had entrusted him with staying close to such an important dignitary. It was that, as an African-American born in Chicago, he was going to meet the nation’s first black president, a man he deeply admired.
But by the time Mr. Obama’s visit was over, Mr. Tate was on the way to losing his job.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Since he admired and probably voted for Obama TWICE, I am not even a little bit upset. Since he voted to put millions of other Americans out of work, I think it is fair he joins them.
Clinton’s coterie had the same sort of problem, as I remember. A few of them were so depressed by it that they committed arkancide.
The same way the flag Neil Armstrong planted got to Mars, silly.
Some news media organizations, as well as Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, said — erroneously — that the security guard had been convicted of felonies. Mr. Tate had been arrested several times, including on charges of robbery and assault, but never convicted.
He may be unemployed now, but if he gets a good lawyer it looks like a slam dunk case for LIBEL and SLANDER against those Media Agencies. And maybe even Wrongful Termination.
Not really. Obama is, after all, the Black Messiah. The most important man on the planet. Nay, in history. Of course the guy wanted a photo to document his own touch with an historical figure of such Supreme Prominence. Barack Hussein Obama. Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm!
Okay, this sounds like a set-up. Add to that the two intruders trying to break into the WH. Is Obama the source for all of these break-ins and near misses? Something smells.
paraphrasing ohole, spreading the unemployment around, is a good thing.
How's that vote workin' out for ya, Sparky?
Man does not look upon the face of the Gorgon and live.
It did not sound like he’d done anything he was forbidden to do. If the Secret Service got angry, it should have been angry with the CDC in general. They scapegoated this fellow.
It’s never been about principle with Barack. Surely if liberals should lament an injustice, it’s one like this. It’s been about politics and power.
This guy was too bourgeois, too honest. Working a semi decent job, and carrying a... eek... gun! What use to liberals is treating someone like that nicely? (If living in the DC area I hope he had a second job, this one would be hard to live off of alone.)
All it takes is a call from the president to clear this up. No one could fault a black guy excited to snap a photo of the first black pres. Sheesh, however unprofessional. Actually, the pres should have posed with him, for him, in the elevator. Seems like W. would have done that.
It’s BUSH’s fault for my thinking this!
Taking this story at face value, and having worked Security in the past, I think if the guy had asked permission to take a picture it probably would have been okay. Obama the Narcissist would gladly pose with him. But he broke the rules.
In a way that’s true. Liberal politics has become very, very blame-based. A conservative would note that this fellow and the president were, at least in principle, both serving the same country to the same general ends. In practice? Intense jealousy (mostly on the presidential side).
I read the whole article and savored every word. His contact with the most amazing man on the planet resulted in his losing the greatest job he ever had.
Pure poetry.
Addendum: Rules he may not have known were in place.
Bush would have graciously granted such a request. This is snot politics.
Amazing disgrace, this was.
LOL!
It’s possible they never briefed him on that, all the attention being on the gun, not the camera.
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