What Do Obama Supporters Do Now?

FirefightnRick · November 13, 2008

Yeah when you read this you just realize how much of a lost cause he really is.

Speaking of "Lost Causes"....

Rick

Edited November 13, 2008 by FirefightnRick

FirefightnRick · November 14, 2008

We learned so much about Madelyn Dunham for months during the campaign during the countless rally's and interviews and she is mentioned in both of Barrack Obama's books. Then the country was updated when she became ill, and then mourned the loss when she passed away the day before the election. But it's been 10 days since and I had not heard any more about her until today.

Tribute tomorrow to Madelyn Dunham

Rick

Censored by Laurie · November 14, 2008

Tribute tomorrow to Madelyn Dunham

I'll see you...and raise.

Coffee and TV · November 17, 2008

Speaking of "Lost Causes"....
Rick

Did they let you keep the Armadillo suit? Do you ever feel the urge to wear it to a Mean Green game?

SilverEagle · November 19, 2008

Why is it that so many ignore the fact that the greatest opportunities are here in the U.S. How is it that this is missed by so many? Flyer is not making a generalization, he's talking about those here in the U.S., in which Poverty doesn't exist on a "MASSIVE" scale which I'd expect to be the descriptive of a 3rd world nation, not the U.S. This is the land of opportunity. If your an abled body and are poor here, imagine what you would be in Mexico? You cannot help those who won't help themselves. I see it and live it every third day and Emmitt does too and every emergency worker in the nation does as well. You cannot help those who won't help themselves move on and improve their lives. You can help them temporarily but they won't change their ways for the most part. I've been picking up and helping the same countless hundreds of people on the east streets of Fort Worth for years now. They don't want help until they can't get something they do want on a temporary basis.
Last night as the rain storms hit we made an EMS call to an elderly woman's house. She was complaining of difficulty breathing and it was raining so damn hard we were soaked to the underwear by the time we got up to her door. Went inside and found her sitting in a recliner in the front room in which the ceiling was caving in and leaking profusely and she had buckets all over the place catching water as it came in through the ceiling, and she was having a hard time getting any air. We had been there before, several times and the last time I recalled was at the end of the summer and inside the house she had several full-grown young men living in the house, I suspected renting from her. I'd say about 4 or 5 of them, about 18 to 25 years old. I looked around the corner while we were waiting for the ambulance to see two young girls, I figured were this woman's grandchildren, but the young men were no where to be seen. So my Lt and I looked up into the ceiling right over where the woman had been sitting and her attic was coming in. Two of the main ceiling joists were broken from the weight overhead and had forced through the sheetrock. There were numerous things piled up in the attic, plus the air conditioner/heating system was right there over her as well, all just waiting to fall in and crush anyone below. We both let her know that she was just asking for to get crushed by remaining where she was. This lady is very proud and I could tell she's been having tough times and she's very sweet on top of all of that. So the situation finally just got to me and while I was carrying her out to the ambulance I finally just asked her, "Where's all the young men you had here the last time we were here, seems like it wouldn't take any of them much to at least help you get the stuff out of the attic and get that fixed?". She looked at me with the worst look of disgust and said, "I kicked their asses out. They wouldn't pay rent, wouldn't mow the grass, wouldn't do a damn thing, hell they wouldn't lift a finger much less help me with the roof, so I kicked them out,". And that's just a tiny bit of what I see. Give those same 4 or 5 guys a $5,000 check and you can only imagine what they would do with it. Damn sure wouldn't give any of it back to that woman who took them in and let them have a place to stay back in the summer, that's for sure.
Rick

I'm sorry, but what administration was it that pushed for checks to be sent out this last time? And what administration is it that is currently making noise to do the same? And as I recall, you didn't get one of those checks unless you paid taxes.

And while I would be very distressed to see checks go the the young men that you described in your story, I wouldn't see it as being much different than the current administration creating a situation where Halliburton (thanks to Lord Vader Cheny) got their welfare checks.....and probably still do.

Edited November 19, 2008 by SilverEagle

FirefightnRick · November 19, 2008

I'm sorry, but what administration was it that pushed for checks to be sent out this last time? And what administration is it that is currently making noise to do the same? And as I recall, you didn't get one of those checks unless you paid taxes.
And while I would be very distressed to see checks go the the young men that you described in your story, I wouldn't see it as being much different than the current administration creating a situation where Halliburton (thanks to Lord Vader Cheny) got their welfare checks.....and probably still do.

SE, stay on topic. The Bush administration gave out the checks, which wasn't right either, it still doesn't dismiss the fact that we have built a "Hold your hand out" society of lazy individuals and it sure doesn't help the old woman.

Rick

untbowler · November 19, 2008

The Democrats controlled the Congress that authorized the Bill to send Welfare Checks to most Americans earlier this year.

They could have told President Bush to stuff it if they really wanted too.

SilverEagle · November 19, 2008

SE, stay on topic. The Bush administration gave out the checks, which wasn't right either, it still doesn't dismiss the fact that we have built a "Hold your hand out" society of lazy individuals and it sure doesn't help the old woman.
Rick

I believe that I was on point. And are you somehow blaming the Democrats for this? My point is that welfare is welfare. Individual or corporate. Before you start splattering all this on the Obama administration, look at all of the corporate welfare (Halliburton is one example) that's been handed out by Alfred E. Newman and Lord Vader Cheny.

SilverEagle · November 19, 2008

The Democrats controlled the Congress that authorized the Bill to send Welfare Checks to most Americans earlier this year.
They could have told President Bush to stuff it if they really wanted too.

But it was still Mr. Conservative values idea!

FirefightnRick · November 19, 2008

But it was still Mr. Conservative values idea!

There's plenty of blame to go around, for sure.

Rick

SilverEagle · November 19, 2008

There's plenty of blame to go around, for sure.
Rick

But you never utter the name of a conservative when you're handing out blame..... only Democrats.

Mean Green 93-98 · November 19, 2008

But you never utter the name of a conservative when you're handing out blame..... only Democrats.

SE, stay on topic. The Bush administration gave out the checks, which wasn't right either, it still doesn't dismiss the fact that we have built a "Hold your hand out" society of lazy individuals and it sure doesn't help the old woman.
Rick