With a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete, garbage,
And a seemingly out-of-place gazebo.
Just a little story to inform the uninformed. Out of the Chicago Sun-Times, no less. The candidate's home-town newspaper. Be careful who you award grant money to. $100,000 plus another $20,000 is a terrible thing to waste. Here's a snippet, for those who don't like to follow the linker:
Obama and Kenny Smith announced the "Englewood Botanic Garden Project" at a January 2000 news conference at Englewood High School. Obama was in the midst of a failed bid to oust South Side Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush for a seat in Congress. The garden -- planned near and under L tracks between 59th Place and 62nd Place -- fell outside of Obama's Illinois Senate district but within the congressional district's borders.
Obama vowed to "work tirelessly" to raise $1.1 million to help Smith's organization turn the City of Chicago-owned lot into an oasis of trees and paths. But Obama lost the congressional race, no more money was raised, and today the garden site is a mess of weeds, chunks of concrete and garbage. The only noticeable improvement is a gazebo.
It seems My Man Bill is doing all he can for BObama. Just check out this sample from Larry King Live on September 24:
Clinton told King he would be hitting the campaign trail for Obama in Florida, to Ohio, to northeast Pennsylvania, and Nevada “at a minimum" in October, “after the Jewish holidays” are over.
"Are you kind of feeling Jewish that you're waiting until after the Jewish holidays?" asked King. "No. But I think it would be — if we're trying to win in Florida, it may be that — you know, they think that because of who I am and where my political base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Chiles used to call the 'cracker vote' there."
Silly, silly BObama. Nobody messes with a Clinton. So sad it took you all of Silly Season to learn this lesson. Who's sorry now? Not My Man Bill and My Gal Hill. They have lives. And a legacy. Those who don't think so were never Clinton supporters to begin with. Bill's legacy is safe with us clingy prayin' bitter cracker gun-toters. We would vote for Our Man Bill again if we could.
A Tidbit About The Bailout Negotiations
Speaking of 'crackers', Good Ol' Missouri Boy Rush Limbaugh had this on his show on Friday. Don't go thinkin' I'm a fan of drug-abusing Rush. I don't listen to his show. I just end up at his website every now and then to see what's cookin'. I have no idea if this is truth or rumor, but it caught my interest. Here's a part of the transcript:
RUSH: Now, folks, I want to tell you what happened at the White House meeting yesterday, and you are going to be stunned. You wouldn't believe it. Well, sadly, you will believe this. At the meeting, you had McCain and Obama, you had John Boehner, you had Dingy Harry Reid, you had Barney Frank. Chris Dodd was in there. Pelosi was in there. There were some others, but these are the principals. The meeting ostensibly was requested by McCain. Well, no, the meeting was originally requested by Paulson. Remember, Paulson -- and this is crucial here. Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, called Lindsey Grahamnesty. This according to Bob Schieffer of CBS.
| Paulson called Lindsey Grahamnesty and said, "Look, I need the House Republicans. I need Republicans on this. We can't get anywhere without them. You've gotta call McCain. He's the only one that can do it." So that's why McCain goes to Washington, and they end up having a four o'clock meeting at the White House yesterday. They all think they're going into a negotiating session. The president, in order to let everybody be heard, deferred to various Democrats, and every one of the Democrats -- Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, and Frank -- declined to speak and deferred to Obama. So Obama became the official Democrat spokesman in the meeting. This was to hype Obama's leadership and presidential aura and so forth. What happened next, the first thing out of Obama's mouth -- Paulson is in the meeting -- is he starts ripping the House Republican proposal and asks Paulson what he thinks of it. This led Boehner and the other Republicans in there to think they have been sandbagged. We found out this morning that Obama had no clue -- because he was in transit doing other things, he had no clue -- what the House Republican position was. What happened was that on the way to the meeting sometime during the day, Obama's staff received an e-mail from Treasury Department employees who work for Paulson detailing the House Republican plan. So when the Democrats deferred to Obama, he launched into that. He had no clue what it was. That's why he asked Paulson for his comments. I don't know what Paulson said, but this is what led to the fireworks. This is what led to everything breaking down in there. This is why Dingy Harry walked out, 'cause it didn't work. It ended up with Obama essentially chairing the meeting, with the meeting falling apart. The president was described as "beleaguered," trying to regain control of the meeting. McCain didn't say hardly anything. Everybody was yelling and screaming in there. McCain did not. He said, "We've gotta put these differences aside, work together," you know, typical McCain. "According to an Obama campaign source..." and this is from the American Spectator blog today. "According to an Obama campaign source, the notes on the Republican position, House Republican position were passed to Obama via senior aides traveling with him who had been e-mailed the document via a current Goldman Sachs employee and Wall Street fundraiser for the Obama campaign. The Obama campaign source said, 'It was made clear the memo was from friends and it was reliable.' The memo, which basically briefed Obama on the Republican position..." |
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| You see, Obama did not defend the Democrat position on this. He led off with an attack on the Republican position, as though it was a shock and a surprise, under the auspices that this deal had already been agreed to. |
Makes you wonder. Makes ME wonder, anyhow. What if this kind of gaffe occurred when meeting with a foreign leader? Which candidate is ready to be our next President?
6 comments:
Rush Limbaugh makes me snore, but only when he is not making me roll my eyes in utter disgust. Car trips with my dad used to be HELL, what with him smoking his pipe with the windows up and listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio at a very, very high volume. Or maybe it just seemed loud. Still. Hell, I say. HELL.
You know the way you can tell that Rush is lying? His mouth is moving. His mouth moved a LOT in this story.
Miss Ann and Betty,
Sadly, I have learned that many things undesirable (such as Rush), can be traced back to Missouri. The annoying snide wedding videographer guy on Survivor is from Missouri. I just found that out today. And he is the one I most despise.
Oh, and I suppose you've heard that we're the first state with a community that plans to catch and prosecute any person slandering BObama. If my blog disappears, we'll know why.
I just see where Rush reported what other sources are saying. That's hardly lying. Like him or not, Betty, if you have information that contradicts what Rush reported, then you should take it up with Bob Schieffer of CBS or the American Spectator - the specific sources cited by Rush.
But then, you'd have to forgo your snide little comment, wouldn't you?
I'm sure that that famous Jew, Bill Clinton, would never do such a thing.
HEAR YE, HEAR YE! The newest Hillmomban Proclamation is now in effect:
COMMENTERS ARE PERMITTED UP TO TEN (10) SNIDE COMMENTS PER POST.
So decreed by the Supreme Leader, Mrs. Hillbilly Mom, on this 29th day of September, in the year 2008.
Stewibelievedrushonthisone,
I also saw several articles that said McCain put the kibosh on the issue at a lunch thingy, saying he would stand alone if he had to, like he did about the surge. And that he couldn't take a side with the House Repubs or Bush when he was in the top secret meeting. AND that the Dems outsmarted him by having BObama call him out for his opinion. That's why he refused to answer BO, and left the meeting ahead of everybody else. Those links escape me.
Anyhoo, I find BObama to be a smug opportunist with no original thoughts of his own, so if this happened, I'm of the opinion he was a mere marionette for those DNC puppetmasters.
I wonder if that famous Jew, Bill Clinton, ever met the other Betty, that famous author who just died, as reported by HH.
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