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Subject: Fw: Stay Outta here!
fires and presidents do not mix !On TV, the Colorado Springs police chief begged Obama not to come as he had no resources to protect him, and didn't need the extra burden ....but Obama came here anyway..Read this.Colorado Springs ..…they had to suspend flights of the fire fighting tankers because the big O came to town.No air traffic could be in his vicinity, so the firefighting planes had to stop. The big O (zero) spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayers money to fly across the country in Air Force One to Colorado to make a campaign stop in the middle of a tremendous fire, thereby totally disrupting all the firefighting and police efforts, and causing millions more in fire damage to forests and homes.. and peoples lives.. all just to make himself look more prominent in the news. This is what we have for a President of our country now folks.He sure has the best interests of Americans at heart doesn't he! We got "change" alright !
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It's well known that Obama flew to Colorado to view the disaster. That's what presidents do. Otherwise, not a word of this is true.
And had he not gone, RW pundits would be howling that this is a 100 times worse than Katrina.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/conservatives-find-a-way-to-blame-obama-for-monster-colorado-wildfire
Well Obama's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't, so what else is new?
Here's a quote from an article from that noted LIebrul media outlet Fox News:
"Colorado Springs Police Chief Peter Carey said Obama's visit to Colorado ... would not tax the city's already-strained police force. Gov. John Hickenlooper said he expected the president might sign a disaster declaration that would allow for more federal aid."
my bold
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/27/ferocious-fire-devours-homes-in-colorado-springs/
The "article" in this RWF was written by some random person with no link to substantiate Police Chief Peter Carey allegedly "begging" Obama not to come.
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2012/08/colorado-asked-obama-not-to-come-in-the-midst-of-the-fires-2449626.html
There you go: even Fox News is more factual and less inflaming than rightwingnuts who want to bellyache about nothing all day long.
Ironically comments posted about the fake "story" of the Police Chief "begging" Obama not to come are all bitching, vetching, whining & complaining about the Federal Govt not providing them with federal aid and assistance fast enough.
Yet in the RWF ranting tirade of insanity below this one, we are directed to an undoubtedly erudite "article" by Chuck Norris whining about the horrors of FEMA Aid.
Which is it, wingnuts? Do you want Uncle Sam to help you? Or are you all such Libertarians that you can fight these wild fires all by yourselves, plus pull yourselves up by your boot straps to clean up the devastation afterwards??
Oh, I see: you prefer to victimize yourselves to the Darkie in the White House once again. Quelle surprise!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-five-rules-of-disinformation/24889
25 Rules of Disinformation
worth reading
I live in Colorado Springs, and while I am not always a huge fan of President Obama, I appreciate the truth.
Not a word of this is true. Not a single, word. Well, except for the park about us having a bunch of fires. That part was true. But the President was welcome, and his visit was deeply appreciated.
Having had terribly destructive fires twice in the past few years, the President visit was helpful - the fires and floods have been isolating and beyond stressful. His visit helped highlight our problems.
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