Barack Obama brings Hope to Ft. Meyers as Stimulus Bill Passes
Submitted by Betsy Muse on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 2:51pm
I turned on the television in time to see Barack Obama handed a slip of paper. Apparently, it was a note telling him the stimulus bill had passed in the Senate. When he announced this to the crowd in Ft. Meyer's, Florida, the crowd came to its feet. Obama was quite obviously pleased and said several times, "This is a good thing."
He took questions from a grateful crowd. At one point he called on an older woman who was obviously overwhelmed with emotion. Her name is Henrietta Hughes and she said, "We need help." She said her family is their home. She said, "We need more than a vehicle or parks to go to. We need Help. We need our own kitchen and a bathroom." Barack Obama left the center of the stage and walked over to Ms. Hughes. He took her hand and kissed her cheek and assured her that we will do everything we can to help. He then told her to make sure she spoke to his staff afterward.
It's sad, but I can imagine what George W. Bush might have responded had he been presented with the same situation. He would have probably smirked and said something along the lines of, "Well, you've got nice parks here in Ft. Meyers."
Andrea Mitchell just mentioned on her show that these sessions are not "pre-cooked" or hand picked and their stories aren't hand-picked.
How refreshing.
I lived near there for 13 yrs(Lee Co), and it's a big neo-con...
voting area. If anyone was getting or looking for a bailout back then, you would hear all kinds of talk about "the Socialists". Luckily I was able to sell my place just about six months before the real estate market collapsed. I still know a lot of people who wanted to come north, but couldn't sell their homes. All were retirees who put everything into those places, and now they have become a "bad asset", as the banks like to say. Eventually, we'll all feel some effects from the Bush years, but I can remember being pretty unpopular down there saying an invasion of Iraq was a bad thing. I'm not saying this to gloat, but there is some irony on how these things come back to bite you in the ass.
Oh yeah, both elections and your Karma
have consequences! Love the saying, "what goes around comes around".
I have been thinking about that saying a lot lately
There have been so many things happening locally and in D.C. and I have pretty much confirmed that you just don't piss Karma off.
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