Posted on 05/29/2010 5:51:45 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn't look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army of temp workers to spruce it up for the president and the national news crews following him. Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, whose district encompasses Grand Isle, told Yahoo! News that BP bused in "hundreds" of temporary workers to clean up local beaches. And as soon as the president was en route back to Washington, the workers were clearing out of Grand Isle too, Roberts said. "The level of cleanup and cooperation we've gotten from BP in the past is in no way consistent to the effort shown on the island today," Roberts said by telephone. "As soon as the president left, they were immediately put back on the buses and sent home." Roberts says the overnight contingent of workers was there mainly to furnish a Potemkin-style backdrop for the event — while also making it appear that BP was firmly in command of spill cleanup efforts. New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU reports that the workers were paid $12 an hour and came mostly from neighboring Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. News of 11th-hour spruce-up brigade spread rapidly Friday afternoon and infuriated locals. One popular radio host, WWL's Spud McConnell, suggested that the Coast Guard and the White House may have been involved in setting up the "perfect photo op." "Who else has the kind of authority to bring a bunch of strangers to Grand Isle when the president is in town for a visit? You think they did background checks on all those people?" wondered McConnell.
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This type of site prep has worked for 100 years. It’ll probably work this time too as the visual is a better communicator than the accompanying text. It’s human nature. Annoying, but not worth expending too much effort on.
Rent-a-crowd?
How many were illegals?
Obama’s used to rent-a-mobs, they’re just making him at home.
Yes! and so is Obozo to think that no one would figure it out.
David ‘BP’ Axelrod + SEIU = photo op.
They’d have to force me at gun...but yet, then again, they’d have to go ahead and squeeze the trigger.
From looking at the pictures I would say that this was a typical Community Organizer/ACORN stunt.
ACORNs not illegals.
REMEMBER; OBAMA IS IN CHARGE AND NOW DIRECTS BP OPERATIONS !
obama’s own words...
You could ask the same about any corporation supporting THE ONE©®
I’m sure that pic of O alone on the beach, squatting down and feeling the sand, will be on the cover of one of his magazines...he’s such a poser and wannabe.
He makes me sick.
But, hey, it’ll all look good on next month’s unemployment report that these were hundreds of unexpected newly created jobs!
There ought to be an award, let’s call it “The Clunky,” for businesses who pull such egregiously stupid PR stunts. In fact, politicians ought to be eligible to receive The Clunky, too. The public is just not as ignorant as it used to be, but the powers that be haven’t caught on to that salient fact.
god is coming! everybody look busy...
Sounds like the WH orchestrated it with BP. No one gets near to the President without USSS approval and screening.
“Sounds like the WH orchestrated it with BP...”
BINGO!! They were SEIU, ACORN and prisoners on work release programs. YOU BETCHA this was Obama’s idea.
“”Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts””
My first thought and probably the final one on the subject is just another official in New Orleans who enjoys complaining!
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