Baltimore: Crowds shed tears of joy.
Posted By: Obama: I love you back. jj on 2009-01-17
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Baltimore: Crowds shed tears of joy.
Speaks for itself.
article from baltimore sun..time for bush to go
From The Baltimore Sun: After Katrina fiasco, time for
Bush to go
After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go
By Gordon Adams
September 8, 2005
WASHINGTON - The disastrous federal response to
Katrina exposes a record of incompetence, misjudgment
and ideological blinders that should lead to serious
doubts that the Bush administration should be allowed
to continue in office.
When taxpayers have raised, borrowed and spent $40
billion to $50 billion a year for the past four years
for homeland security but the officials at the Federal
Emergency Management Agency cannot find their own
hands in broad daylight for four days while New
Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast swelter, drown
and die, it is time for them to go.
When funding for water works and levees in the gulf
region is repeatedly cut by an administration that
seems determined to undermine the public
responsibility for infrastructure in America, despite
clear warnings that the infrastructure could not
survive a major storm, it seems clear someone is
playing politics with the public trust.
When rescue and medical squads are sitting in Manassas
and elsewhere in northern Virginia and foreign
assistance waits at airports because the government
can't figure out how to insure the workers, how to use
the assistance or which jurisdiction should be in
charge, it is time for the administration to leave
town.
When President Bush stays on vacation and attends
social functions for two days in the face of disaster
before finally understanding that people are starving,
crying out and dying, it is time for him to go.
When FEMA officials cannot figure out that there are
thousands stranded at the New Orleans convention
center - where people died and were starving - and
fussed ineffectively about the same problems in the
Superdome, they should be fired, not praised, as the
president praised FEMA Director Michael Brown in New
Orleans last week.
When Mr. Bush states publicly that nobody could
anticipate a breach of the levee while New Orleans
journalists, Scientific American, National Geographic,
academic researchers and Louisiana politicians had
been doing precisely that for decades, right up
through last year and even as Hurricane Katrina passed
over, he should be laughed out of town as an impostor.
When repeated studies of New Orleans make it clear
that tens of thousands of people would be unable to
evacuate the city in case of a flood, lacking both
money and transportation, but FEMA makes no effort
before the storm to commandeer buses and move them to
safety, it is time for someone to be given his walking
papers.
When the president makes Sen. Trent Lott's house in
Pascagoula, Miss., the poster child for rebuilding
while hundreds of thousands are bereft of housing,
jobs, electricity and security, he betrays a careless
insensitivity that should banish him from office.
When the president of the United States points the
finger away from the lame response of his
administration to Katrina and tries to finger local
officials in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La., as the
culprits, he betrays the unwillingness of this
administration to speak truth and hold itself
accountable. As in the case of the miserable execution
of policy in Iraq, Mr. Bush and Karl Rove always have
some excuse for failure other than their own
misjudgments.
We have a president who is apparently ill-informed,
lackadaisical and narrow-minded, surrounded by oil
baron cronies, religious fundamentalist crazies and
right-wing extremists and ideologues. He has appointed
officials who give incompetence new meaning, who
replace the positive role of government with expensive
baloney.
They rode into office in a highly contested election,
spouting a message of bipartisanship but determined to
undermine the federal government in every way but
defense (and, after 9/11, one presumed, homeland
security). One with Grover Norquist, they were
determined to shrink Washington until it was small
enough to drown in a bathtub. Katrina has stripped
the veil from this mean-spirited strategy, exposing
the greed, mindlessness and sheer profiteering behind
it.
It is time to hold them accountable - this ugly,
troglodyte crowd of Capital Beltway insiders, rich
lawyers, ideologues, incompetents and their
strap-hangers should be tarred, feathered and ridden
gracefully and mindfully out of Washington and
returned to their caves, clubs in hand.
Gordon Adams, director of security policy studies at
the Elliott School of International Affairs at George
Washington University, was senior White House budget
official for national security in the Clinton
administration
Thanks, this does shed a different light.sm
I do admit, I have not been following this.
Does shed some light on how things work in Alaska. sm
It is interesting that she is against more taxes on the oil companies overall but has a 75% tax on oil profits in Alaska.
Take your tears somewhere else...(sm)
It's a political discussion board, and yeah, it gets messy -- hence, the warning at the top of the board. I come here for political discussion, not drama. Take a look at her prolonged farewell address above. It speaks volumes. She is absolutely correct in saying she has supported both sides and in the middle. That's not a political discussion, that's a beauty pageant contest. I'm about sick and tired of her "flavor of the day politics" and calling me out personally about "bashing" and then turns around and does the exact same thing, or worse.
But hey, this isn't bashing, "I am just talking about a specific person whom I personally think is over the top."
Who was crying tears?
You are the most ridiculous person on here. It cracks me up when you even try to make a point. I really just feel sorry for you. You are so determined to SHOVE your views in others face and so desperate sounding all the time. Everyday you try so hard to show those Republicans where they went wrong. This isn't a debate for you, this is some kind of life mission and it is just sad that this is all you have. We are just sick of your frenzied wild posts that aren't well thought out. Knock if off. You are ruining what should be a place to discuss topics with your GET THE REPUBLICANS midlife crisis you are having.
Your post has me in tears!
You sound like a wonderful stepmom - he's very lucky to have you in his life.
Tears of joy for hope and change...
will soon be tears of anger and frustration when you come to realize that O is not your Messiah, your hope or your future. He is just a man who has taken on much more than he realizes. He will be tested and will fail due to his lack of experience and courage. He is just a shill for the Clintons, who apparently he owes quite a lot to seeing how he is recycling Clinton cabinet members and friends. So much for hope and change; you can't pay your bills or build back your 401(k) on either one. The money wasted on such an elaborate inauguration is beyond me when the economy is in such turmoil. I am going to sit back and watch as it all slowly implodes and the sheeple finally see the wolf who is leading them right where he wants them, starry-eyed, ignorant and dumbed down.
Barrrrrack baby! Tears of happiness in my eyes!
I'm so happy that Barack Obama won Iowa that I just twirled circles in my living room like a child! I know there are no guarantees, but I just have such a hopeful feeling right now and I'm enjoying that feeling! For months I have been telling anyone who would listen why I am such a strong supporter of Obama's.
What do you all think about Huckabee winning Iowa? I confess that I don't know much about him (or any of the Republican hopefuls), but you can bet I'll be researching him now that he seems to be the front runner, although honestly I believe chances are VERY slim of a Republican candidate winning the next presidential election!
At least I will be on the other side of the planet from you when your vale of tears start.
NM
I run in crowds who are ...
engaged enough that source questioning is not necessary. They already know where this comes from because they have heard and/or read it themselves. If I said I heard some things on Hardball, Meet The Press, etc. you would discount it as liberal left wing hogwash. The Buckley quote has been in the news for a couple of weeks. Peter King is all over the networks as was Susan Collins. Even writers for The Wall Street Journal commented on the appearance of incompetency. If you are so sure this is not fact-based, why don't you prove me wrong...do some research yourself...instead of dismissing me because I have no intention of spending time finding things for you. If you watched TV or read or listened to the radio (besides Rush) you would know this stuff.
I beg to differ. The crowds were not as big...sm
as 2+ million but the excitement was exactly the same.
Nope...these are crowds...(sm)
organized by lobbyists (Dick Army for one) and sold by Fixed Noise. The funniest participant of this tea extravaganza has to be Newt. Didn't he vote for the bailout under Bush....hmmmm... exactly what is it they are protesting again? LOL. 
It is very scary to see the way these crowds of people. .
turn into a mob mentality, I mean shouting things like "kill him", "terrorist" -- what's next -- burning at the stake? And to see Palin and McCain stand there with big smiles on their faces, really enjoying seeing the hatred they incite. That must have been what Hitler felt like. To think that there are people that actually want these monsters in the White House? It's mindnumbing!
I bet they wish for the crowds Obama brings in
Now those are crowds!
No thanks - don't want Acorn bused-in crowds
My city in Florida had an estimated 5000 people show up - at 11:30 on a work day. Is that a small number to you? These people took time off from work for something that is important to them. They weren't bused in like all those Acorn-filled rallies during the campaign. 
Nobody is stopping the large crowds of people
who are vying for the opportunity to debate you.
But this IS the liberal board, and if you keep posting here, be prepared to have people respond to your posts... whether YOU like it or not.
Sorry, these aren't bought and paid for crowds!!
xx
Funny, haven't heard of any crowds of 100,000+ like Obama.
xx
They're bullies, Missy. That is what bullies do. Attack in crowds.
Makes one wonder what they are so afraid of...one lone poster on an anonymous board. Go figure.
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