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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 05:49 PM Original message |
Obama's first visit to New Orleans was TODAY - on the way to a fundraiser |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. Here. This is for you. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well of course. Stop in LA for a presidential thingy and the fundraiser |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. Katrina happened on Bush's watch. Why must you blame Obama? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I don't have a "chip" on my shoulder, I've been working in the goddamn field for 3 years. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Working in the Field. Thus your narrow perspective. FYI it's a big motherfucking country. |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Not a personal visit, a business trip. Was this his first business trip to NOLA? |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:59 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. The president's staff, not the president, make important trips. 35 so far to New Orleans. |
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Louisiana1976 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
30. Get a clue. |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm sorry...I wasn't listening... |
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marybourg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. First visit since taking office 9 months ago. Five previous visits |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. he hasn't been to my state either, why did i ever vote for him |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. You guys are strange. What happened to New Orleans is a NATIONAL FUCKING PRIORITY |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. You're not entitled to your own facts |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. Action = demolish all of NOLA's public housing? - is that what DUers want? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I think all public housing projects should be torn down |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. You mean like what they've done in every HOPE VI project? Or just the Wal-Mart one? |
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Louisiana1976 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Leopolds Ghost--thanks for this post. We're probably the only |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Problem is, too many agree with Bobby Jindal |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. AND 20 staff members devoted to it who have visited 35 times within |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #5 |
29. The door swings both ways |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Yes, but Obama was supposed to save NOLA from what the right-wing Louisiana Dems have done. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
6. . |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I guess it's not okay to criticise current policy towards New Orleans in your book |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. LOL! |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I'm glad you take Katrina relief so seriously. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Nice leap, bullfrog. |
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Cali_Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. No kidding! |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. I volunteered in NOLA for 6 months while the people unrecc'ing this post were praising |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. I think the people in the 9th ward got betrayed. Just as W |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. 99% of its public schools? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Yep. Closed the rest and converted them all to charters. And the WalMart? Used to be public housing |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-16-09 04:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
37. Typical "Shock Doctrine" M.O. That's one place I wanted to |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. LOL Journalism died in the 90s. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
16. This is the worst thing he's done since he gave Gordon Brown those DVDs. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Deleted message |
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I take Katrina relief seriously. |
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Bonn1997 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
35. Visiting places is just for PR. It sounds bad if you don't visit but it doesn't make a difference... |
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