This Fits: Obama Sign Posted In Front of Homeless Camp
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, December 12, 2009, 9:40 AM
Hope and Change…
“Welcome to Obamaville, Colorado’s fastest growing community.”
An Obamaville sign was posted in front of a homeless camp in Colorado Springs says it all.
KJCT reported:
Someone has put a lot of thought into a welcome sign that may surprise you, it’s in front of a homeless camp off I-25 in Colorado Springs.
Its message, “Welcome to Obamaville, Colorado’s fastest growing community.” Despite repeated calls no one could answer the question, who put up the sign?
To some homeless the sign’s message says enough. Mark Limonez, a homeless man living in “tent city”, says the sign doesn’t make him feel good about trying to get back on his feet. “Guys are trying to work but there’s not enough work out there, so they go pan handling or flag a sign” Limonez says, “I’ve never seen so many camps since I’ve been out in the streets – there’s no money.”
Hat Tip Brian B.
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bg commented:
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OT.. bad news for Iraq, and US..
via TRBO
Aiham Alsammarae: we’ll do it the Obama way
[Alsammarae, who holds dual U.S.-Iraqi citizenship, thinks he can win in Iraq’s 2010 elections with a dose of Chicago-style politics. Over the past few months, he has quietly traveled to the city of Samarra and says he has won pledges of support from tribal leaders representing more than 20,000 voters.
He figures 50,000 votes will win him the seat.
“We have to do it the Obama way. We are trying to send a message of change. We will clean up the system,” Alsammarae says during an interview here in the Jordanian capital about his election plans.
And part of the Obama way is a big web effort:
Part of Alsammarae’s campaign money is being used to pay several Iraqi college students living in Jordan to “improve” his reputation on Iraqi blogs, where he is often pilloried with accusations of corruption.
At a recent meeting with some of the students, Alsammarae praised one young man for responding to a posting that blasted him. The student, Ali Koperly, 22, wrote on the blog that Alsammarae did a good job rebuilding Iraq’s electrical grid.
“We have to show the corruption of the
current Iraqi government,” Koperly said.
Alsammarae has traveled to Iraq on several occasions in recent months, but he says he’ll stay clear of Baghdad until he wins a seat in parliament. After all, he says he still has enemies in the current government that he says would like to see him behind bars.
“I have to be careful,” Alsammarae says. “You never know if this government will try to make up some new charges against me.”
Great…those young bloggers should start first with Alsammarae’s appalling press conference with Radio Sawa: Pro-Obama Iraqi-American Ex-Convict Supports Increased Attacks on U.S. Troops.]
not near all, but a bit more @ link..
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Valerie commented:
They used to call them Hoovervilles.
bg, thanks for the news, even if it’s bad. I hope our Iraqi friends will take note.
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ctrptrct commented:
Gee, I thought there was only high unemployment and homeless people during Repub administrations. That’s what the libs always told us. Worst economy since the great depression and it’s all Obama’s now.
Ozark Lee commented:
The terrible thing about the news report was that they were more concerned about who put up the sign than the reality of the homeless camp. Do you think the story line might have been a tad different if the sign said “Welcome To Bushville” instead?
Hopefully this will resonate though, Colorado is definitely in play for the Senate next year.
…Lee
Agent 99 commented:
bg thank you and this http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/11/exclusive-leaked-justice-department-memo-terrorists-to-be-moved-to-camp-gitmo-illinois And Panetta (CIA Director will no longer use BlackWater ….NYT did a hit piece on them) But please be aware that the PLEDGE To shut Gitmo Down is coming sooner than expected… The Illinois Correctional Facility is nearby to not one but 2 Nuclear Plants and the danger is the ROP ”breaking” their ‘brothers’ out… Or Smuggled Cell Phones or sympathetic liberal lawyers smuggling notes…OR … worst of all would be as in Checynan(sp) Rebels taking school children hostage..
Agent 99 commented:
All Dems must be voted out ASAP… God Bless The USA … RESTRICTIVE ROE for our Troops in A-Stan http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121330893
Chisum commented:
12 reasons the job market is worse than you think
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/12/09/12-reasons-the-job-market-is-worse-than-you-think/
Male Silverback commented:
Amazing. We are reliving the past; Obamaville vs Hooverville. The people of America are watching ever closer, we may have a complete shift in our government come the next couple of years.
someone2 commented:
From the picture, it looks like a gated community, too!
daryl commented:
It will be interesting to see how long they are allowed to stay up.
DaveinPhoenix commented:
Obama and the rest of the criminal congress goals are being achieved….
Ben White commented:
The news media found a message that wasn’t in line with the leftist orthodoxy. They were so surprised, they had to investigate.
No one at the TV station thought for a second to question any leftist policies though. No curiosity at all about that.
Maybe the sign was financed by the stimulus bill. It saved or created the sign-makers’ jobs.
Lee__ commented:
All those media guys have to do is call Obama and ask that some of those ‘shovel-ready’ jobs be sent over there asap…..
davidr commented:
I would’ve called them “Barack’s Barracks”.
Corky Boyd commented:
For those who never read Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, the epic novel about the great depression, Hoovervilles were the left’s description of homeless camps.
I guess it’s our turn now.
CaMaven commented:
It will only get worse under Obama, his Czars and a Marxist Congress. Read “The Obama Timeline” (see ww.colony14.net )
Yoodles commented:
All they care about is gutting the person who put up the sign, not that it is up and what it means. Silly media, they make it almost hard to watch their segments on any level.
Sandy commented:
In the 30′s they had Hoovervilles and now we have the homeless in Obamavilles. A dubious achievement to say the least.
Sandy commented:
Yoodles — Scary isn’t it that no one seems to care about the occupants of these tent cities only who named them. In fact there have been no stories about those middle class families who have fallen through the cracks because of bad mortgages. All we get is Obama crowing about saving this economy from bad old Bush. I wish Bush were still President. At least life made sense then. We knew who the bad guys were.
Sandy commented:
Barack’s Barracks is a great line but I think Obama is going to save those dwellings for those who choose not to get Healthcare.
John B. commented:
Totally off base. These posts show base racism and hatred for our legally elected and competent president.
Chisum commented:
Totally off base. These posts show base racism and hatred for our legally elected and competent president.
Yes, because to be critical of “The Once” is racist. Right, moron?
Reader25 commented:
This is Obama’s vision for America. Were he will “level the field”. All but his selected minons will have equal opportunity to purchase tent, sleeping bags and field utensils.
Colony14Author commented:
For those interested in Aihan Alsammarae (who was mentioned in the comments here), the following is from my book, The Obama Timeline:
In April of 2005, while Aiham Alsammarae is Iraq’s Minister of Electricity, a $50 million contract is negotiated with a company called Companion Security to train Iraqi security guards in Illinois. Companion Security is run by Daniel T. Frawley and a Tony Rezko/Daniel Mahru partnership. In May a Panamanian company, Fintrade Services, lends money to Rezko. On Fintrade’s board of directors is Ibtisam Auchi, wife of Nadhmi Auchi. Another of Nadhmi Auchi’s companies helps finance a power plant in Iraq, working with Rezko and Aiham Alsamarrae. Alsamarrae is a Chicago resident with dual (U.S. and Iraqi) citizenship. He was accused of graft with Iraqi construction projects and imprisoned for four months in Iraq in a $2 billion corruption case. Obama is thus a critic of the War in Iraq at the same time he is receiving political favors and contributions from Rezko, who is in turn dealing with Iraqis and kickback schemes
spayandneuter commented:
“Chisum
December 12th, 2009 | 10:52 am | #11
12 reasons the job market is worse than you think”
And lets not forget about the boomers nearing retirement. When they lose their jobs the chances of someone hiring a 59-64 yr old is almost nil.
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Snake Eater commented:
But but Obama has a stash…he said I wouldn’t have to pay my mortgage or car anymore..I want me some Obama money! Where’s my Obama money at?
LOL!
spayandneuter commented:
“John B.
December 12th, 2009 | 5:30 pm | #25
Totally off base. These posts show base racism and hatred for our legally elected and competent president.”
I know, amazing isn’t it? And remember all the black people who didn’t agree with Bush and his policies, totally racist!
sarc/off
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John B. commented:
Right! I’m white and I never agreed with W., nor did anyone in my family. So, there’s your “racist” theory dashed. W. was the worst president since James Buchanan. Obama is a mental giant compared to Dubya and the most qualified president we’ve had since Thomas Jefferson.
Atomic Lib Smasher commented:
John B.No Gravatar
December 12th, 2009 | 8:35 pm | #32
Right! I’m white and I never agreed with W., nor did anyone in my family. So, there’s your “racist” theory dashed. W. was the worst president since James Buchanan. Obama is a mental giant compared to Dubya and the most qualified president we’ve had since Thomas Jefferson.
I’d agree with you…………….
If I was also a crackhead.
Piss off, liberal douchenozzle.
No Man commented:
Obama and his idiot congress (again I repeat myself) are making the same gross errors that FDR made which elongated the Great Depression through 1946. No prior panic or depression lasted more than 18 months.
Wonder why? Bc the Fed didn’t exist and the guvmint hadn’t usurped sufficient power to totally screw productive people.
John B. go on and call me a racist. Call me anything you want. Just don’t call me late for dinner.
Oh! Check that! I feed myself unlike liberal scumbags that think its someone else’s duty to provide for them – and want something for nothing from somebody!!!! Please feed me!!!! Or that blame someone else bc they’re are useless tools.
It’ll take O time to undo all the good Dubya did. But he’s feverishly working on it when he’s not trying to imitate T Woods or taking Michele out on $500,000 dates on the taxpayer’s dime.
A$$hole
Cassandra commented:
davidrNo Gravatar
December 12th, 2009 | 12:36 pm | #18
I would’ve called them “Barack’s Barracks”.
That’s coming, Dave – and it won’t be nearly as pretty OR as unconfining as Obamaville!
Solaratov commented:
John B.
December 12th, 2009 | 5:30 pm | #25
Totally off base. These posts show base racism and hatred for our legally elected and competent president.
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But, I thought barak obama was the president.
Did they put in someone competent while we weren’t looking? That’d be nice.
btw, johnny, trying to play the race card is foolish. a)Nobody cares. You might as well call someone a forsythis bush for all the effect that “raaaacccciiiisssssssst” has any longer. And, b)You’re an idiot, you leftoid drone.
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Solaratov commented:
John B.
December 12th, 2009 | 8:35 pm | #32
Right! I’m white and I never agreed with W., nor did anyone in my family. So, there’s your “racist” theory dashed. W. was the worst president since James Buchanan. Obama is a mental giant compared to Dubya and the most qualified president we’ve had since Thomas Jefferson.
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Yep.You’re an idiot. But then, all obots are.
Stupid leftoid drones.
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.The only good communist is a dead communist.
Tired American commented:
WHERE IS THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE? If they could just produce the B.C. & Americans could finally know the Truth, things might improve–especially if the Truth is that Mr. O. is not qualified to be our Prez and thus EVERYTHING the guy has done suddenly becomes NULL & VOID. FIND the damned B.C.!
Chisum commented:
Well well well, looky here. More verification of the lies from the left. No rationing of healthcare. Oh no. Death Panels? No way! More lies from the wingnuts!
Harry Reid Inserts Lifetime Limits (Death Sentence?) in Health Care Bill
An alarming find comes to us via the inveterate investigative blogger Jane Hamsher, often seen on TV news programming. The Senate bill contains a lifetime limit placed on the care that ill patients can receive. The next time an Obamabot mocks your assertion that the legislation would ration care, or if you dare to use the incendiary phrase “death panels” — if a lifetime limit on treatments and drugs isn’t a death sentence, please tell me what is! — you can tell them that Jane, a very liberal blogger, cancer survivor and all-around fine person, has unearthed the following in her post, “Harry Reid Slips Lifetime Limit Into Senate Bill“.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/12/13/harry-reid-inserts-lifetime-limits-in-health-care-bill/
Chisum commented:
Ruh Roh!
Rasmussen shows continued slippage for Obama
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/rasmussen_shows_continued_slip.html
Miguel commented:
John B.
December 12th, 2009 | 5:30 pm | #25
Totally off base. These posts show base racism and hatred for our legally elected and competent president.
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Hey, John B: I get it! The joke was on everyone else who thought you were serious when you posted that. But I can get it when someone tries to get a rise out of others by saying something outlandishly sarcastic. Good show, you had quite a few of ‘em fooled!
To those of you who think he was serious, I mean, re-read the thing. The legality of Obama’s election was not in question in this article, no supporter would bring it up his birth certificate reference out of context like that – they want to sweep that under the rug. And an Obama supporter would use a more glowing word to describe the Messiah than “competent”.
The racist thing is an overused lefty defense of Obama criticism, and readers here are so keenly aware of it we preempt the claim by mocking it.
This post was a spoof by a fellow conservative making a sarcastic comment. Seems it was lost on most everyone up ’til now. But I got it and man, that was a great one.
Now, if you overreacted and read it straight, the joke was on you. Don’t be so quick to take bait like that. When debating real lefties they’ll try to distract you, upset you and then hope independents see you as the weirdo. Don’t get sucked into that, we need to persuade I’s to come back to reality from the la-la land they thought they elected.
Betty commented:
I’m not a fan of Obama’s by any means
but he could not of done this much damage in 11-12 months so I think he has had lots of help .
Don’t miss understand he’s done plenty on his own but lets be real folks this is a trickle down issue also.
the birth certificate – We would all love to see that also. So if he’s not showing it Who’s not making him.
J