New Orleans – worse under Obama
By Brian Kirwin | Monday, August 30th, 2010 | PolicyPresident Barack Obama toured New Orleans this weekend (I guess Martha’s Vineyard was booked) and touted the “resilience” of New Orleans.
What Obama could’ve said was this:
“Unemployment here is only 8.2 percent! This is a freakin’ boom! The rest of the nation has 9.5 percent unemployment.”
or maybe he could’ve said
“Sorry I screwed everything up. New Orleans was a hotbed when I became President with unemployment only at 7.4 percent. But as much as I’ve screwed up the rest of the country, I’ve pretty much left you alone.”
or maybe even this
“Someone told me about some oil spill while I was on vacation. How’d that turn out?”
Actually what he really said was:
“We’re going to keep on working, all right?”
At least those who still have jobs will, Mr. President. At least those who still have jobs will.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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10 Responses to "New Orleans – worse under Obama"
J.R., I didn’t know your blog was supposed to be comedy central. But of course, BK isn’t really funny, and his attempt is so pitiful that we could have done without.
Mike, if I wanted to write about pitiful attempts, I’d profile your support of candidates in recent years.
No Brian, it has been the results that are pitiful; afterall, we have a Governor who’s unfulfilled promises have fallen like leaves in the wind. The actual results of electing an anti tax proponent are deplorable roads, loss of economic prosperity, and the primacy of advice from CEO dominated “commissions” about more corporate tax breaks which are nothing more than payback.
Mike, does anyone publicly advocate raising taxes besides you?
Well Yes, Brian, just about every major business associaton in the Commonwealth supports an increase in transportation related taxes and fees. Of course, the republican party in Virgina long ago gave up on doing what was right for Virginia to grovel for the populists and the anti tax zealots. The result is a Commonwealth in danger of losing its share of federal transportation tax dollars because we lack the state match. Congratulations Brian, you won!
I mean someone elected, Mike.
You know, those things that keep us from being a dictatorship?
What do yous guys say about the Fair Tax?
Some of the democrats at daily kos are less then happy with Obama also.
“Well, FWIW, there have been many of us hammering
away at the feeble logic of the Ardent Obama Fans for some time now, but it hasn’t done much good. They are, most of them, still up to their necks in cognitive dissonance, and are grasping for logical life preservers that simply don’t exist. Instead, fallacious reasoning, ad hominem abuse, and constant repetition of unsupported assertions seems to be the consistent modus operandi. Very sad…
… except when it’s very abusive, in which case it becomes obnoxious and inflammatory.”
“The interesting moments for me s where you ask them questions they can’t answer and they lash out at you for asking it:
a) If this were Bush doing what Obama is doing, what would you think of it? I have never gotten a straight answer to that one.
b) If its all just the product of the system around the president, then how to you explain when they were about to pass x (I mention for example the passage of drug re-importation and the president killing that bill despite bi-partisan support)? I get rather contorted pieces of reasoning along the lines of 1) He still had no choice to get a bill (why? Not clear why just he had no choice) 2) Attacking me for pointing out 3) Distortions of what I wrote or 4) All of the above plus some other things like changing the subject or wholesale denial (No that didn’t happen. Now prove it to me. I will list some articles providing evidence. See that doesn’t prove x happen because it doesn’t directly say Obama said X, and therefore, you are wrong! The article will normally corroborate 80 perscent of what I said and I wil include other articles with other pieices, and they will settle on one to argue that its all false)
And on and on and on.
The point is to deny, deny deny.”
“We’ve told you and told you but you all hide in your picture diaries, cover your ears and scream lalalalalalala. Because the bright shiny reality thing hurts you somehow. We post list after list of exactly WHY we’re @issed off at obama and exactly what he’d doing wrong. And your response is to either post some rule that some little rule change that twiddled around the edges of soemthing.. or more likely scream in rage that anyone would dare question the Savior. We’ve grown weary of trying to shovel reality into the heads of the lefts very own wingnuts.
And the really disturbing thing is how you convince yourself youre not a very very small minority of very extreme authoritarians.”
If you think New Orleans is worse under Obama take a good look at how much the unemployment rate has gone up since Obama took office among African Americans.The first black president isn’t doing much to help other black Americans.
No tax is fair.
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