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Obama’s Broken Promises to Sandy Victims
Washington Free Beacon, by Mary Lou Byrd
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Posted By:StormCnter, 12/10/2012 5:20:25 AM
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| Six weeks after Sandy hit the New Jersey and New York coast, residents are still struggling and in desperate need of shelter. Many hard-hit victims are not getting help despite President Barack Obama’s pledge of the full support of the federal government, and they are dealing with red tape the president said would not be tolerated. In the Red Hook community of Brooklyn, N.Y., many residents are still living in their unheated, powerless homes in freezing temperatures. Help from the government for residents has not come.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/10/2012 5:28:49 AM (No. 9057250)
What did they expect? He said if he hadn´t fixed the economy in 3 years, "this will be a one-term proposition." That´s the most egregious broken promise of all.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
geo11, 12/10/2012 5:29:15 AM (No. 9057251)
Sandy was a crisis that Obama was not going to waste. The photo ops with Krispy Cristie and the phony pledges served the purpose. The election was around the corner and Obama was hustling for votes. Job well done.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lydwho, 12/10/2012 5:48:04 AM (No. 9057257)
He promised all Americans a big vacationland. He knows that you are to broke and to overtaxed to take them so he and Moocher are going to take them for themselves.
Isn´t that sweet of him and Moocher???
Art
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Janjan, 12/10/2012 7:03:01 AM (No. 9057288)
After 6 weeks of waiting for Big Government to rescue them you would think these people would get a clue.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BirdsNest, 12/10/2012 7:11:48 AM (No. 9057292)
I know, we all are aware that if this was a Republican president the media would be screaming about this at every opportunity. I hope those folks up there that voted for Zippy are feeling screwed. Those of us that did not vote for him are sure feeling that way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hellfire, 12/10/2012 7:13:15 AM (No. 9057294)
As far as the libtard media is concerned...Sandy didn´t happen and Barack 0bama has more important ´stuff´ to do. Why don´t the major networks merge and call themselves TASS? s/o
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Really?, 12/10/2012 7:29:24 AM (No. 9057308)
He´s got some serious golf still to be played. He has fooled even his own voters. A complete phony.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Red Jeep, 12/10/2012 7:40:45 AM (No. 9057317)
Ditto Reply #6. Sandy is Barry´s real Katrina but the Pravda MSM here won´t report it, no how, no way.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chance_232, 12/10/2012 7:44:29 AM (No. 9057325)
And yet.....43% of voters said that Hurricane Sandy was their number 1 issue when they voted. Of that group, 78% voted for Obama.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! Ya´ll sold out the country for empty promises. And I´ll just bet these people still blame Bush for Katrina.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 12/10/2012 7:50:08 AM (No. 9057332)
And donut forget---no MSM press coverage! And they WONDER why they are held in such contempt!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lancelink1, 12/10/2012 7:55:22 AM (No. 9057339)
I see it this way - since Sandy there hasn´t been another hurricane to hit NY/NJ so the Dear Leader must be doing something right.
obama is awesome
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
guybee, 12/10/2012 8:03:39 AM (No. 9057355)
The Bible says God is sovereign over every event, every detail. Nothing happens that He does not cause or allow. So you have to think, if that is true, that God allowed Sandy to prevent Romney from getting elected.
That and ORCA - the dismantling of the GOP communication network on election day.
Maybe God, in His divine wisdom did NOT want to give the Mormons an international platform to spew their form lies and deceitfulness to unsuspecting souls. Just maybe the eternal consequences are more important than the momentary inconveniences.
Just a thought
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 12/10/2012 8:04:05 AM (No. 9057356)
This administration is incompetence on steroids. Have they done anything for the good of this country? Everything they have done has been a disaster from day one. They do, however, excel at throwing million dollar state dinners, planning exotic vacations and blowing through the taxpayers´ money.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Shucky, 12/10/2012 8:05:56 AM (No. 9057358)
obama could easily make it happen if he chose, and everyone knows this. but many if not most of the suffering who voted for him are unwilling to admit the foolishness of their choice, so they will place the blame everywhere else you can imagine.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LZK, 12/10/2012 8:26:16 AM (No. 9057381)
Well -- what the heck -- he needed the photo/op....
He lies and people -- well you know the rest....
I want you all to remember this. No one can take your freedom by degree. It´s yours until YOU surrender it. obama will never by MY president. The supremes will never rule away MY guaranteed freedoms to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- American style....
LZK
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 12/10/2012 8:30:31 AM (No. 9057389)
If all this devastation was in the inner city, FEMA would be right on top of it handing out cash.
The main difference between Sandy and Katrina is the color of the victims. One of the big reasons why the MSM could care less with Sandy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Catherine, 12/10/2012 8:32:32 AM (No. 9057393)
Oh they voted alright. All of them. Every New England state went for Obama. And we knew this by 8 pm New England time. Obama, Mooch and the kiddies walked out on stage to maniacally screaming crowds, declared themselves winner then everyone went home. Election over before a third of us had finished voting and several states not even counted. What a set up.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
4freedom, 12/10/2012 8:33:40 AM (No. 9057395)
Sad part is they will pull the lever again for skippy again.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
4freedom, 12/10/2012 8:35:48 AM (No. 9057404)
oops too many agains sorry coffee not kicked in yet.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Barbarian Heretic, 12/10/2012 8:37:45 AM (No. 9057407)
What concerns me the most is that Barry the Magnificent has apparently figured out the psyche of the Proletariat to the point that he can lie with impunity and have his popularity INCREASE.
That´s a big problem.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Maybeth, 12/10/2012 8:50:22 AM (No. 9057426)
Hey ... anyone who expected more was dreaming. Obama´s character was revealed long before Sandy, and keeping promises is not on the list. ..... Besides, Obama got what he wanted out of the hurricane tragedy. Rahm must have been pleased that the president took his advise and didn´t ´waste the crisis.´ The world watched Chris Christie bend over and kiss the president´s butt, again and again and again.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
geoguy, 12/10/2012 8:53:55 AM (No. 9057434)
NY and NJ are like used toilet paper, he flushed them after they voted for him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 12/10/2012 8:56:36 AM (No. 9057439)
Come now, does it matter what he promised to whom? He´s in now and will remain so for four years. If you voted for him, you Sandy people, you set the course, now enjoy!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 12/10/2012 9:21:34 AM (No. 9057478)
Chumps. Nearly all the victims voted for him. What did they expect? They were the wrong skin color. Elections have consequences.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Adam, 12/10/2012 9:27:43 AM (No. 9057489)
I used to live one block from the Red Hook housing project. It is entirely made up of "people of color." wonder if the 12/12/12 concert will feature celebrities saying, "Obama doesn´t care about black people?"
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/10/2012 9:30:18 AM (No. 9057494)
Thank Gov. Christie for NJ´s plight.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Eheu Fugaces, 12/10/2012 9:40:09 AM (No. 9057509)
The most pitiful thing is that these people (victims, or whatever) believed Obama and voted for him.
The second most pitiful thing is to watch these people still standing around helpless, with unhappy expressions on their faces, waiting for Momma Government and Papa Obama to take care of them. They have no idea of how to take care of themselves; but then, if they tried, the officious socialist bureaucrats they voted into office would stop them in their tracks.
Even so, few of them will learn from this that the cradle-to-grave promises of Big Government are made to be broken.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
nightvision, 12/10/2012 9:45:48 AM (No. 9057515)
Cheer up, folks! HERE´s some good news! Friday more than two dozen sea turtles, that were "stressed" by the cold water off New England were airlifted to Florida by the Coast Guard. There now, don´t you feel better? http://tinyurl.com/bezjgxf
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Vivi, 12/10/2012 9:58:37 AM (No. 9057532)
He didn´t govern the way he campaigned last time. Honey boo boo nation just want paying attention I guess. Plus our right to make someone else pay for our birth control pills was at stake. Or something.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
larryp, 12/10/2012 10:31:20 AM (No. 9057620)
But what did Gov Kris Py-Creme get from Obama. New Jersey is still swamped,the voters still homless and wterlesss and powerless (both kinds) He got bupkis. Just a caampaign ad for his re-election. Obama voters-- how stupid are you? 60 million morons.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 12/10/2012 11:22:37 AM (No. 9057707)
But what does it matter? Obama makes them feeeeeeel good, he makes them think that he really really really caaaaaares for them. The sheeple voted for this in droves, Truth be damned.
Fool us once, shame on you, fool us twice shame on us.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Dante, 12/10/2012 12:25:53 PM (No. 9057807)
What a shock, an actor doesn´t care about his stage props once the show is over.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
ChazzPalm, 12/10/2012 12:36:52 PM (No. 9057825)
Clearly, G W Bush has spent some of his ill-gotten family (dirty) oil money to pay off FEMA people to be ´no-shows´ in order to make Obama look bad. Seriously, on Nov.29. I spent 5 hours at Breezy Point and saw NOT A SINGLE FEMA rep anywhere. There were few Red Cross folks, some NYPD/FD but NOT ONE person from FEMA was anywhere to be seen.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mindyourbubble, 12/10/2012 1:47:29 PM (No. 9057956)
Well most NJ voted for him and this is how BHO has thanked you for your votes. Let them eat cake. BHO Fema et alia are a crime of nothing but red-tape, excuses and lies. Too when some help from out of state showed up to help, the NJ Unions kicked them out because the aides were non-union. Too where was Obama hugger Christi on that one?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
get er done, 12/10/2012 7:52:34 PM (No. 9058580)
Ditto to #17 -- if the victims of Sandy were "minorities", the media would be all over this story and the victims would be receiving all sorts of government assistance.
Imagine how different the response to Sandy would be if Romney was president -- Romney is an experienced businessman of high moral character who has demonstrated his caring for others through charity over the years and who has the experience to govern our great nation. Obama did the same thing to Nashville, Tennessee flood victims.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Aliveritas, 12/10/2012 9:27:30 PM (No. 9058661)
You´ll love this. FEMA or Red Cross didn´t show up the first week I was there. But they had trucks for voting.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
memphis, 12/10/2012 9:29:15 PM (No. 9058663)
A majority of those people voted for O. Bet they wish he would do something but he probably will not because they are white.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
ncgrammie4, 12/10/2012 9:35:18 PM (No. 9058668)
You know it´s hard, as a Katrina survivor, to get too excited about people who took time out of their clean-up to go to a makeshift polling place to vote for the person who is leading them down the rosy path to destruction. The next few years will be a living hell. Good luck. Elections do have consequences.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
billa, 12/10/2012 10:45:05 PM (No. 9058732)
Why don´t these seemingly helpless people pull an OWS and go and go storm mayors´, governors´, State and Fed offices. Sit on their front lawns with cameras, etc.
Remember when OWS were in LA and SF...they were getting free gourmet food daily, free lattes, warm blankets, music, money, free med care and other amenities from guess who? The PRIVATE sector. Doctors, attorneys, nurses, chefs, masseuses, and many other donated time, money and property to these vagabonds who created their own peril.
The victims of Sandy are probably being ignored because they are largely white (payback time by BO), largely perceived as elitist Northeasterners who stupidly voted for BO, portrayed in film, TV and other media as rude, loud, greedy, dimwit drunken slobs and bimbos (just think of what "Jersey Shore" did to the reputation of New Jersey, not just in the US, but also a large part of Europe.) And there is no "boogey man" to blame as there was with GW for Katrina.
So, Sandy victims, hope Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Eric Clapton and the rest of the limosouine liberals can get you some free stuff.
Although, I would not be holding my breath. Way more than half of these "fund raisers" for victim relief, rarely get actual financial assistance to the actual victims.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 12/10/2012 11:32:10 PM (No. 9058776)
I almost puked watching that fat slob Chris Christie cooing with John Stewart about what a "leader" Obama was. Is Ann Coulter still talking up Christie? If so she is an idiot.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
mercedesops, 12/10/2012 11:36:29 PM (No. 9058783)
41--BTW Eric Clapton is a conservative which is why they ran him out of the UK. You wull now find him living in Dublin--Dublin,Ohio that is; one of the most conservative spots in the country.
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, a persistent voice of media skepticism on Benghazi
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/7/2013 11:01:43 PM
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From the start, the Obama administration’s account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn’t quite square for Sharyl Attkisson. So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. (Snip) While other media, particularly Fox News, have been similarly skeptical about the official narrative about Benghazi, Attkisson and CBS might put the story in a different light. As a much-decorated reporter from a news
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Dem Sen: Second Amendment Not Meant For Citizens To Take Up Arms Against Government
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/7/2013 9:28:03 AM
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on states nullifying federal gun laws: I mean, let´s look at the context of nullification. Nullification was last used by Southern states to try to eviscerate Civil Rights legislation, to try to prevent states from basically enforcing desegregation and frankly, I think history will look back on this round of nullification as kindly as it did on the last round. It is laughable also because it is a total bastardization of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not an absolute right, not a God given right, always had conditions upon
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