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Title: Obama Golfs, Vacations During Devastating Tornadoes, Flooding, Memorial Day
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URL Source: http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/05/o ... rnadoes-flooding-memorial-day/
Published: May 31, 2011
Author: uncoverage.net
Post Date: 2011-05-31 09:26:44 by no gnu taxes
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Barack Obama has just finished a month of the most crass, self-indulgent, embarassing, and insensitive behavior here and abroad and no one in the media is mentioning it. It is absolutely astounding how the media cover for him.
This weekend: The President arrived Sunday in Joplin, Missouri, A FULL WEEK after 139 people died, and 100 are still missing, from one of the worst tornadoes in the countrys history.
He TOURED JOPLIN for TEN MINUTES. He gave a TEN MINUTE SPEECH. He flew home. Michelle Obama flew to Ireland and England with her husband, drank beer, dressed up and chummed with the royals, but she was apparently too busy to go to Missouri. Or was she too tired from her vacation and resting up for her next one? Or the one after that? Or was it because this involved mostly-white grieving people, and didnt involve dancing, gangsta-cop-killer-rapping black people? [see schedule]
The president chewed gum while others gave speeches and prayers about the troubles in Joplin. Its probably what he does in church, since he has only been to church four times as president.
Obama was also visibly chewing gum at the G-20 summit last year, so much so that it was determined by many observers to be distracting and disrespectful. It was explained away as his nicotine replacement therapy because he is working so hard to quit smoking.
As if that should make a difference in presidential decorum.
On Memorial Day, the First Family had breakfast for one hour at the White House with Gold Star Families. He announced new Department of Defense appointments. He visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. All this was done before noon. [see schedule.]
Then he went golfing.
President Bush QUIT GOLFING completely once he declared a war. Completely. President Bush CERTAINLY would never have gone golfing on a national holiday dedicated to Americas war dead.
Never. Ever:
I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal, Mr Bush said in an online interview for Yahoo and Politico magazine.
I dont want some mum whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.
12th golf game this year, the 70th game of Obamas presidency.
The decision to golf on Memorial Day invites comparison with President George W. Bush, who gave up the game early in his presidency and said he did it out of respect for the families of those killed in Iraq.
Obama is out with the three younger aides he typically has in tow on his golf excursions, junior White House staffer Ben Finkenbinder, White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson, and Energy Department staffer David Katz.
In a sign of his determination to play no matter what, Obama is golfing even though it is currently 95 degrees at Fort Belvoir and it feels like its 98 degrees, according to The Weather Channel.
Anyone who could go to the Arlington National Cemetery, to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, with grieving families, yards and yards of tombstones all around, and then totally disengage from that vision and moment and indulge himself in a golf game after being on vacation for a week, cant POSSIBLY have any feelings or emotional involvement in the meaning of Memorial day.
How could he not know that a solemn day of prayer is what would be appropriate?
Its deeper than that: Such an unfeeling person has no business being president of the United States.
Lets not forget that all of this self-indulgent behavior comes directly on the heels of a one-week eating/drinking binge in the U.K., a trip that was nothing more than a campaign ploy to pander to the Democrat Brahmins in New England. Despite the fact that the Obamas travelled with an astounding 1500 staff people, Obama committed embarassing protocol gaffes, including the toast to the Queen (and later blamed his many staff members for not preparing him.)
The president flubbed again when he refused to receive an award during lunch with the British Science Society, choosing instead to play ping-pong and high-five with boys at a local school:
Sources close to the state visit said members of the Royal Society were deeply offended by the snub and had accused Mr Obama of being obsessed with his street cred.
When Obama hosted the goodbye party from England, the Queen refused to toast him, and left early, reportedly disgusted at seeing celebrities and sports stars vigorously frisked by Obamas security personnel. This was only reported in the Indian media.
Nile Gardiner of the U.K. Telegraph says Obama was bumbling, unresponsive, and outclassed in a news conference with Prime Minister David Cameron [read it all]:
The lack of clarity in this Downing Street press conference was symbolic, I think, of a broader disarray in the Obama presidencys foreign and economic policy. A great deal of Barack Obamas leadership on the world stage has been muddled and uninspired, from the global financial crisis to the Middle East. This approach does not bode well for the White House in 2012.
Despite her personal full-time staff of 26, the First Lady turned herself out in Ireland and England with ghoulish hairdos, and expensive, unattractive dresses. The British media pointed out that recession-mindful Princess Kates dress was only $340, which Michelles weird silk poufy prom dress cost 5 times that and was deemed too young and dowdy by the truth-tellers in the British media. There were no questions asked about the cost or necessity of this trip. Mrs. Obama travelled home separately with her posse, which incurred more expense for the American taxpayers.
It is an incredible, mind-numbing insensitivity in these two. They are lavishing millions of dollars on themselves, masquerading Obamas re-election campaign as state travel. Why doesnt the Congress grow some balls and rein in their budget?
Barack Obama is a self-involved, narcissist pretender. He defiles the presidency and the White House. All this, yet he gets a pass on all of his outrageous behavior from the shameful, flaccid mainstream media. Imagine if George Bush had done ALL this what the media would say.
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Bush visit New Orleans yet? I know he saw Haley Barbour's front porch.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." Obama is an asshole no doubt. But no need to put it in the title. Should I take away your posting privelages? Or you gonna stop?
Obama in New Orleans: The callous face of the US ruling elite By Patrick Martin In a brief, four-hour stopover in New Orleans en route to a fund-raising dinner with millionaire Democrats in California, President Barack Obama made perfunctory promises to the people of the devastated city, barely disguising his indifference to their plight. The New Orleans visit was intended as a photo-op, with heartwarming footage of cheering school children and grateful citizens, but the reality of growing popular disillusionment and anger intruded when a college student challenged Obama during his appearance at a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans. Gabriel Bordenave, 29, cited the continued stalling by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on funds to rebuild the main health care facility for the poor of New Orleans, Charity Hospital. Obama responded defensively with political boilerplate. His administration was “working as hard as we can as quickly as we can,” he said, citing unspecified “complications” in coordinating efforts with state and local governments—although he had just defended Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin when they were booed by the crowd during introductions. “I wish I could just write a check,” he continued, and someone in the audience shouted out, “Why not?” Obama was visibly put out, first by Bordenave’s question, then by the interruption. He proceeded to lecture his critics: “You say, why not? There’s this whole thing about the Constitution.” He then continued that in Washington, “everyone will attack you for spending money, unless you are spending it on them.” This was a thinly concealed slur. His audience of hurricane survivors, Obama was suggesting, were just another special interest group seeking money from the federal government. Bordenave later told the New York Times, “I kind of thought (the Constitution reference) was a blow-off answer.” Obama stopped off in New Orleans for three hours and 45 minutes on his way to a fundraising event in San Francisco. Obama’s performance in New Orleans was so callous and arrogant that it drew criticism from two African-American columnists usually in the administration camp, both writing on their newspapers’ web sites. Jim Mitchell of the Dallas Morning-News observed that the president “snaps at a person who asks a very reasonable question—why the area doesn’t have a full service hospital back up and running so many years after Katrina.” He added that Obama’s response was “snide, elusive, and surprisingly, politically tone deaf.” Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post called Obama’s “brief display of drive-by compassion” in New Orleans “by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far.” Dismissing Obama’s claim that it was difficult to expedite the flow of funds to the storm-ravaged area, he wrote: “We now know that our government can make hundreds of billions of dollars available to irresponsible Wall Street institutions within a matter of days, if necessary. We can open up the floodgates of credit to too-big-to-fail banks at the stroke of a pen. But when it comes to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, well, these things take time.” The contrast is indeed stark. While Obama boasted of having freed up $1.5 billion in federal funds for Gulf Coast recovery projects since taking office, this compares to more than $12 trillion made available to Wall Street financial interests—8,000 times more. Obama’s new money for Katrina recovery is less than one week’s expenditure on the war in Afghanistan. The indifference of the president was demonstrated in the perfunctory character of his tour of the hurricane zone. He stopped at a public charter school in the Lower Ninth Ward, the same school visited by George W. Bush during one of his post-Katrina jaunts. The school sits in an area that remains 75 percent uninhabited. Then the presidential motorcade made its way to the University of New Orleans field house for an hour-long town hall, and Obama was on his way back to the airport. Obama did not bother to visit the other areas hardest hit by Katrina, including the vast New Orleans East area, which remains the site of mile upon mile of flood damage, or the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast. It was not that Obama lacked time to go to these areas. The day after his stopover in New Orleans, he was back in the region for an event with George H. W. Bush, to mark the 20th anniversary of the former president’s “A Thousand Points of Light” foundation, at Texas A&M University. In all, Obama spent far more time with venture capitalists and Bush loyalists than with the people of New Orleans. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/obam-o17.shtml
Now, I know Iâm not going to change the minds of any of the True BelieversâŚthose who read all of Reverend Alâs sermons, and say things like, âYou know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, âŚâ. Can I get an âamenâ??
Guess that they disagree that Obama is the good little Socialist that you mouthbreathers believe him to be.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." He is a moonbat socialist, but more so a self serving arrogant piece of shit. Fucking ghetto trash in a suit.
Now, I know Iâm not going to change the minds of any of the True BelieversâŚthose who read all of Reverend Alâs sermons, and say things like, âYou know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, âŚâ. Can I get an âamenâ??
When your mouth is full of Obama you can't breathe through your mouth can you war? Take it out of your mouth and take some deep breaths.
It must really kill you that a "nigger" has achieved so much more than you could haver hope to.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." That you Yukon?
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." Are you racist? You just called Obama the N word.
My thoughts on such matters were best made known here: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=20618&Disp=1#C1
Now, I know Iâm not going to change the minds of any of the True BelieversâŚthose who read all of Reverend Alâs sermons, and say things like, âYou know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, âŚâ. Can I get an âamenâ??
Check's in the mail, Stone. Your editorial policy is pretty obvious when posts like these are granted your explicit welcome...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." I won some money at the track yesterday - that's three weeks in a row.
Yowzah...great job... And thanks for your service...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." Of course I paid my respects by a visit to the local cemetery before heading to the track.
We had a great parade and it was fun watching. It's very heart warming to see how Viet Nam vets are greeted now.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." the one ... another ear biting --- mike tyson !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons are for girlie boys !
--GW Bush
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--GW Bush
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Guess that they disagree that Obama
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mouthbreathers
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--GW Bush
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--GW Bush
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Are you racist? You just called Obama the N word.
--GW Bush
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--GW Bush
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--GW Bush
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He added that Obama’s response was “snide, elusive, and surprisingly, politically tone deaf.”
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