Stanley Kurtz @ NRO:
So here’s Obama proudly advertising his relationship with Reverend Wright, and even imitating Wright’s divisive rhetoric on Katrina. Is anyone surprised? Essentially, every excuse Obama used to explain away his relationship with Reverend Wright during campaign 2008 was a lie. But we already knew that.
We also see here that Obama doesn’t want to build more highways out in the suburbs. That’s news to most, and there’s a lot more going on in that line than racial code. Obama’s hostility to suburbs stands behind some of his most transformative, yet least well-known, policy initiatives. To this very left-leaning president, the trouble with suburbs is ultimately a matter of class, not race. At any rate, suburban swing voters ought to wake up to Obama’s anti-suburban policies before they reelect a president who plans some very nasty surprises for them in his second term.
In a way, however, the most interesting thing about this video is the juxtaposition of Obama’s attack on Bush-era deficits with his interminable laundry list of big-government “investments,” all of which can supposedly be made at a savings to the taxpayer. Those promises ought to have been recognized as too-good-to-be-true in 2007, much less today, as Obama’s deficit grows at an unheard of rate.
OBAMA:
One SMALL problem, Obama.
The federal government did at times waive the Stafford Act during its New Orleans reconstruction efforts. On May 25, 2007, just weeks before Obama’s speech, the Bush administration sent $6.9 billion to Katrina-affected areas with no strings attached.
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Funniest thing, I hear ultra-conservatives constantly talking about how the Left is continually using the race card, but I hear more about ‘racism’ on this and similar sites than I ever do in the liberal media.
The majority of the media will never look for true racism which lies at the heart of Obama’s political philosophy. The “race card” is simply Obama’s minions expressing that racism by projection.
Is there a window open around here, I hear a hallow hissing sound coming from somewhere?
@Liberal1 (Objectivity):
Where do you see racism? Calling out Obama’s speech that he clearly intended to stir racial animus? You call that racism?
Here comes the cold water shocker.
The Federal Government sent millions of dollars to New Orleans over the years, intended to shore up the system of levies which keep the city dry.
The City, in its wisdom, took those funds and “invested” them in floating casinos instead.
The “investment” did not pay off, as graft and greed diverted all the funds.
Then, having not provided for her own needs, New Orleans claimed racism because she was inundated.
New Orleans is a perfect example of victim mentality. “You sent us money but you did not MAKE us spend it the right way. Now you have to make up to us for our feckless behavior.”
That is liberalism at its finest.
@mathman: That tidbit is a nice side dish to the Sierra Club suing the corpse of engineers to prevent a better levy system being put in place. . . not once, but twice.
@Liberal1 (Objectivity):
The left has been playing the race card for generations. But when push comes to shove, it is not white people who exhibit blatant racism or even the refusal to help others, no matter their skin tone. So while I know you simply talk the talk but don’t walk the walk let me give you a prime example:
In just weeks after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the better half and I were there. We hauled our travel trailer to the Coast, where we were responsible for all our own expenses. Americans had been hurt and we were there to help. We met lots and lots of volunteers, from churches, or just groups formed in different counties of the nation, who wanted to help those who lost everything get back on their feet. The volunteers were there to help clean up the mess, help rebuild homes, provide food, water and clothing for Katrina’s victims. A lot of the residents on the Coast are black, but that didn’t matter to the volunteers. And they stayed. I was there 23 months.
I learned two things; first, most of those who asked for help were black. Second, NONE of the volunteers were. Now, perhaps you would like to tell us that retired black people didn’t have the money to go to the coast and help, but there were retired WHITE military everywhere, so your excuse won’t hold water because the military doesn’t pay retirement benefits based on RACE. So where were the retired BLACK military that could have helped?
Money was handed out like it was Halloween candy. Cash money. The Humvee dealer told me that the year after Katrina was the best year he had ever had. Expensive new SUVs were everywhere, often parked in the drive way of a house that still had the blue roof tarps a year and a half after the hurricane hit. Cash money was given for home repairs and went to auto dealers instead. It was not unusual so see a woman in Wal-Mart buying groceries carrying a Dooney and Burke or Louis Vitton handbag which she pulled her Katrina vouchers from. And yes, Greg, after years in the apparel industry, I can tell the difference between the real thing and a Chinese fake.
I finally found a RV park that was operational. Up until then I had been using the generator and propane gas. The government placed FEMA trailers in the same park, and they were trashed. When FEMA started picking them up, the trailers were missing the beds, the furniture, the toilets, the refrigerators and stoves. They were TRASHED. One out of every three FEMA trailers, after almost two years of use by those who were homeless after Katrina, had to be scraped out because they were no longer usable. There was one couple living next to me in the RV park that had come from New Jersey. Now, they did not live on the Coast when the hurricane hit, but they claimed they did and got a FEMA trailer. Fraud was rampant everywhere.
I came home disillusioned and pissed. I swore I would never volunteer for any national disaster again. While I paid all my own expenses to help people, they were ripping off the taxpayer.
American taxpayers poured billions of $$ into New Orleans. And what did it get us? Out of control crime. People who lost everything but were unwilling to work the jobs that were offered to help rebuild so that contractors brought in Mexican labor. Even Rag Nagin complained about lack of New Orleans residents that were willing to work which allowed the bringing in of Mexican labor. Those New Orleans residents are part of the 47% who think they are owed something. They’re not.
A video from that same era is also being talked up.
Obama shares the podium with Malik Zulu Shabazz and Najee Muhammad of the New Black Panther Party.
Obama lies from start to end:
Truth was unimportant.
Obama was creating a narrative.
Obama was inserting himself into civil rights history.
Look at the whole video from the 19:20 point.
And OPEN your Bible to the REAL Lord’s Prayer.
Compare.
Contrast.
Obama has no idea what Jesus taught.
None whatsoever.
@Nan G: He is a moo-slime — anyone ever hear him renounce Islam? hummm? Please enlighten me. And the rev wright’s BS church is just a fraud – pseudo church designed to suck the attendees into black islam / anti-Americanism — the rev is an ex moo-slime — anybody hearing any fatwas out there for either of these two FRAUDS?
@Liberal1 (Objectivity): Lib! you obviously have a lot of time on your hands if you peruse conservative and lib web sites. Did you get a free cell phone from Obama? You’re the “free phone” lady.
Obama had a chance to vote to waive the Stafford Act in order to make assistance funds available to the New Orleans Katrina victims without their having to match them with a 10% contribution.
Guess what?
He voted NO.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00181