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     Xl1200r |
What a total cluster f***. Albany International Airport is shut down for HOURS. Every road from Albany to Troy (where he's visiting) is closed. His little speech is for "invited guests" only. Guess they're a little worried about more outburts? If you're an Obama supporter, this is a chance to maybe get a glimpse of our illustrious leader. If you're not, it's just another major waste of taxpayer money and a majot inconvience if you have anything you need to do today. | ||
| Xl1200r |
HAHA! Update - Obama wants to tour the auto repair school at HVCC... get a glimpse of what REAL work looks like since he's likely never seen it before? Invited guests... spewing a bunch of b.s. only to the people who want to hear it. What a joke. | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
No matter the President, its always a total mess when one comes to visit. When I was an undercover drug cop and Bush Sr came to town, the Secret Service came in, tossed their weight around and comandeered the entire sherrif's office, at tax payers expense, to do security detail. They didn't care that we had undercover drug operations, they wanted all of us in uniform to be a "presence" while the President was here. After about 3 hours of talks with our bosses and their head guy, it was agreed that myself and the other agent would work non-uniform detail. The kicker, I still had to wear a radio headpiece and a gun. Camo shorts, mullet, earing, purple t-shirt a earphone and a holster.....I'm surprised I didn't get arrested. | ||
| Xl1200r |
No doubt. People often accuse me of being one-sided with this kind of thing, but even if it were a president I agreed with, it's still an awful lot of money that had to be spent and an awful lot of people that have been inconvenienced so this guy can give a feel-good speech to 300 hand-picked people. BTW - all he basically said was: a) America is a great nation b) Washington is broke c) he can fix it Seems I've heard all that before. | ||
| Court |
He's on his way here to tape the Letterman show . . . whoopdedo . . well at least I'll concede he's a damn good entertainer. I've got some hilarious stories from the time I spent with The White House and local law enforcement. | ||
| S1wmike |
He's on his way here to tape the Letterman show . . . whoopdedo . . well at least I'll concede he's a damn good entertainer. Just a thought have BHO stay at home and do HIS job!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Blake |
Add one more to the list... Coopt the NEA, a taxpayer funded organization, to get our your partisan propaganda.  http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/200 9/09/21/explosive-new-audio-reveals-white-house-us ing-nea-to-push-partisan-agenda/ | ||
| Gearhead |
Buellinachinashop is absolutely correct. Many years ago when Bush Sr. was Vice President, he came to the school I teach and coach at to run with my Cross Country team. Every house across from the track either had to give up their firearms or have a secret service agent in their home while he was running. There were approximately 20-25 secret service folks with him not including the two sharp shooters who were posted on the roof. It was amazing! As it turned out Mr. Bush was a very pleasant almost ordinary guy and it was an experience I'll not soon forget. That's the price we pay to have someone in high office come to visit and regardless of your politics, for those who get the chance to rub shoulders with these guys it's a very cool experience. | ||
| Rocketsprink |
well put Ralph. Wish more could see it from your point of view. We got stuck in the U.P. of Michigan because Bush 1 was coming over the bridge with his motorcade. Small price to pay to protect the Leader of the Country. I believe visits by ALL Presidents have something to do with promoting their agenda. Seems strange that some here think that this President shouldn't do that?? "Just a thought have BHO stay at home and do HIS job!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Now there's a knee slapper. I believe Bush 2 holds the record for most time away from his job. Over 880 days to be exact. Must be nice. Who held the record before Bush broke it? good old Reagan. | ||
| Court |
Kinda true . . . kinda not true . . depending on location. I was one of the people who chose where he would run and started making arrangements to secure the local locker room etc. Best example I recall was Caspar (yes, that's spelled correctly), WY . . we were doing a BBQ lunch Fund Raiser at the IIzaak Walton Cabin near Caspar. After a couple hours in Caspar . . . we were to fly to Phoenix (or Tucson . . I'd have to check my records) for yet another BBQ/fundraiser gig. Ordinarily the run would have taken place in the afternoon but we had a perfect, and very easy to secure facility, right next to the hotel I'd been holed up in for 9 days. Bush was unusual in that he was very respective to the "Mr. Vice President I'd like to propose a suggestion". Some, and I missed the Nixon trip to China that Bill Athey did, used to tell stories about Nixon and LBJ that were quite the opposite . . including LBJ flying AF1 to Texas as he left office and having ranch hands stripe the plane of everything with a Presidential Seal. I must say . . . that of all the folks I could have accidentally wandered in with President Reagan and Vice President Bush were nothing but an absolute jot to work with. It's fun being a construction worker . . . . | ||
| Court |
>>>>I believe Bush 2 holds the record for most time away from his job. I think that is accurate. Obama holds the record for the most precipitous drop in popularity in 60 years. In addition, he's given something like 147 speeches compared to Bush and Clinton who both hovered around 45 at this point in their administration. The more he talks the tougher it is to maintain cogent (witness his little "slip" of 16,000,000 "uninsured" last week) stories together. With the exception of a 3 day "bump" following his speech to the joint session his ratings have dropped (in all polls, dem, rep and Ind) after each speech. He's on track to break LOTS of records . . . his most salient to date . . the deficit.  Not many people are buying into the "we'll pay for it with cost savings through efficiency" . . . . line coming from the government. For whatever solace it is . . . I'd laugh if Bush said it too. | ||
| Madduck |
I lived in Moline, IL for 27 years and for twenty of them we had the only trauma center in the bi-state area. Davenport Iowa got visited by every elected official and wannabes for a year before those damn caucuses. We had to have Trauma 1 available while the dignatary was in town plus two hours on either side of his actual arrival. For an area of 250,000 people our ER department was scrambling. It was totally nuts as the average length of time any patient tied up a trauma room was less than 15 minutes and unless he got shot in the hospital, the driving time was thirty minutes. Nothing worse than a busy day and in walks a suit and gun and takes away your main trauma room. We only had advance notice 30% of the time. Had one close call when the SS guy tryed to clear out a local club member with 10 of his friends in the waiting room. I was setting up a doppler flow US machine for the techs and knew the crowd from other activities. Should have let em kill him. Would have been one of those real teaching moments. | ||
| Court |
>>>We only had advance notice 30% of the time. I had such a "teaching moment" once . . . We were in a "wheels down" condition when someone spotted a car parked on a road the motorcade would be coming down. I politely asked the fellow to move the car. I got a "you SOB's should plan better" . . . . which was not inaccurate in the least . . . his timing was poor his tack worse . . . he told me "you'll have to move it". The fire truck was hooked to it within 20 seconds of my radio call and he and I stood on the veranda watching the smoke roll off all 4 tires as it headed off to town. Paul . . .you can bet that the folks in the "other" ER (there's always a silent second somewhere) were more pissed since they likely didn't even know what was going on. | ||
| 99savage |
Not going to trash our President (right now) but do not understand how anybody can think that "Hi Tech" is going to help NY. The people in NY that need help are just barely literate. "Hi Tech" might create a few jobs but there will be so many people depending on these few employed people the jobs will quickly move elsewhere. - We need to start removing the obstacles to manufacturing. | ||
| Johnnymceldoo |
We need to start removing the obstacles to manufacturing. Hey! thats what the administration is working on now. Removing the obstacles on manufacturing a need for green job programs and carbon credit systems that directly fund liberal organizations both at the top and the bottom. van jones was working on this and probably still is. They need to stifle guerrilla radio and internet information so people are left in the dark. hugo chavez did similar as the FCC diversity czar mark lloyd talked about how smart of a move this was for chavez. *private security force for the administration *complete control of radio and tv *ability to shut down internet patriot act, I laugh at you! |
