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OPINION — Welcome to Fort Pierce, Mr. President: Take a Good Look at Your Legacy!
Gossip Extra ^ | 3/27/15 | Jose Lambiet

Posted on 03/27/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The Floridian National Golf Club

The Floridian National Golf Club in Palm City, President Barack Obama’s weekend hangout (via Facebook)

FORT PIERCE — While Republicans are belly-aching again about President Barack Obama coming to South Florida to play a few rounds of golf, they failed to pick up the irony of Obama flying to one of the area’s poorest and blackest cities before heading to a club open only to 1 percent of the 1 percent.

When Obama’s Air Force One touches down at the St. Lucie County “International” Airport tomorrow morning for a weekend at The Floridian National Golf Club that could end up costing taxpayers $1 million, Obama will in essence land in the middle of the America he left behind — the America he promised to take care of when he was first elected in 2008 but didn’t.

Wedged between much manicured Vero Beach and Stuart, Fort Pierce features census numbers that make it look like a third world country.

Usually, the numbers are half the statewide average, and they barely moved in the six years of Obama:

— 35.7% of the residents live below poverty line

— per capita income is $16,985

— median household income is $26,414

— home ownership rate is 44.5%

We could go on and on, and include sky-high crime and HIV, but you get the idea.

For sale downtown Fort Pierce for $42,344 (MLS photo0

For sale downtown Fort Pierce for $42,344 (MLS photo0

In 2012, Obama made a campaign visit in Fort Pierce that made national news because a pizza restaurant owner hugged the president so hard he lifted him in the air.

This time around, Obama is not scheduled to come anywhere near the heart of the city.

If he did materialize, he’d come face-to-face with the realization that his presidency didn’t do much for Fort Pierce and hundreds of other cities like it.

Might give him the feeling he did not, could not, make a difference.

Surely, there is plenty of blame to go around, and not all of it his.

Republicans at the beck and call of a corporate America bent on destroying the middle class cut down Obama at the knees every time he tried to implement something actually humane.

Democrats lacked the courage of their alleged convictions.

And the reforms that Obama managed to implement, including health care and Wall Street, didn’t have sharp enough teeth to change the landscape.

It might be just as well that Obama is going to avoid Fort Pierce, except to land and take off Sunday afternoon.

A visit might give him acid reflux.

Then, he wouldn’t be able to digest the fancy food at The Floridian.

Or, God forbid, he might actually shank a few on the links out there in Palm City.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: fl; florida; golf; hypocrisy; obamafail
One of the VERY FEW media outlets in Florida to not lick Obama's boots.
1 posted on 03/27/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper; Joe Brower

Florida news.


2 posted on 03/27/2015 12:57:02 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maybe, but they spread the blame to Republicans and uncooperative Democrats.


3 posted on 03/27/2015 1:02:22 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Republicans at the beck and call of a corporate America bent on destroying the middle class cut down Obama at the knees every time he tried to implement something actually humane.

Sort of sounds like a liberal jack ass from here.

4 posted on 03/27/2015 1:03:52 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelousy in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Today's Republicans complain about the First Black President spending $1 million of the taxpayers' dollars to fly to Florida to play golf. The Jeffersonian Republicans never complained about the First White President flying to Florida to play golf.

Of course that's because Florida didn't belong to the United States at that time.

5 posted on 03/27/2015 1:05:18 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SoFloFreeper

Three things are constants....

- Poor blacks vote Democrat almost universally

- One percenters are mostly beneficiaries of regime policy

- The MSM will fail to see the irony of these two facts


6 posted on 03/27/2015 1:07:32 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Avenue D in Fort Pierce on a weekend night is a great place to go to get killed specially if you be a white devil.


7 posted on 03/27/2015 1:12:39 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Joe Boucher

That is a fact. I have been out of Florida for awhile but did some work in Ft. Pierce and Ave. D is a well known cesspool.


8 posted on 03/27/2015 1:56:57 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: MAKOTHEDOG

That may be, but it does have Granny’s Restaurant.


9 posted on 03/27/2015 2:05:39 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
In fairness, Ft. Pierce, a small seaport mostly serving citrus and other agriculture, has always been heavily Black and blue collar, with many stuck in poverty. Obama cannot reasonably be blamed much for its ills.

The more telling point is that Obama neither shows nor advocates virtues that Ft. Pierce's Black folk demonstrated over the years, such as the talent and scrappy truth-telling of resident Zora Neale Huston, the distinctive paintings of the self-taught Florida Highwaymen, and the faith and courage that Ft. Pierce native CeeCee Ross-Lyles demonstrated on Flight 93 on 9/11.

As one newspaper biography of CeeCee recounted:

"Emulating her mother and aunts, she never took welfare, instead working two or three jobs while volunteering at Restoration House, a Christian women's shelter that two of her aunts founded in Fort Pierce.

'CeeCee was a role model, showing women they could make their own way without leeching off the system,' said her aunt, Mareya Schneider. 'In the last few years, she really dedicated herself to the Lord and she would use Scripture to explain that if you don't work, you don't eat.'"

10 posted on 03/27/2015 3:05:17 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: SoFloFreeper

I wish a hurricane would rip through that building.


11 posted on 03/27/2015 3:07:45 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Rockingham

I know he won’t be stopping in White City.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_City,_St._Lucie_County,_Florida


12 posted on 03/27/2015 3:12:50 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: Rockingham

Thank you, my husband grew up in Fort Pierce and it is not all tar paper shacks and crime lords.


13 posted on 03/27/2015 3:20:13 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Ft. Pierce, FL is home to the UDT-SEAL Museum. The predecessors of the UDT, the Navy Combat Demolition Units (NCDU) trained here for Normandy and other invasions before being designated Underwater Demolition Teams. RADM Draper L. Kauffman was the father of today's Explosive Ordnance Disposal and SEALs. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draper_Kauffman.
14 posted on 03/27/2015 4:02:20 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: lastchance

I have lived in Florida long enough and seen enough of the state to know the virtue of places that are often scorned. Even without drawing tourists, they are places where people live and work, raise families, and contribute to the country.


15 posted on 03/27/2015 5:14:16 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s a long dry spell away from the links. It was OVER TWO WEEKS AGO he was playing golf in CA. He was probably in withdrawal...


16 posted on 03/27/2015 5:42:41 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SoFloFreeper

Many Years ago I ran a distribution warehouse in Ft. Pierce ...

The place was a wasteland back then and see it has not changed...

Razor wire on the fence to keep the locals out at night...


17 posted on 03/27/2015 5:50:33 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Rockingham

well said


18 posted on 03/27/2015 6:06:40 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (I love it when we're Cruz'in together)
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To: NonValueAdded

Thank you.


19 posted on 03/28/2015 3:41:15 PM PDT by Rockingham
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