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'He made a promise to help us and he broke it' (NOT OBAMA!)
Daily Mail ^ | 4 January 2013 | Lydia Warren

Posted on 01/05/2013 12:45:22 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

When President Obama hugged a tearful New Jersey business owner after Hurricane Sandy ravaged her home and livelihood, it was the image of compassion, promise and hope.

But the victim in the photo, Donna Vanzant, has now revealed that the president's promises to pour aid into the area were empty - and that, after the hug, she merely received a form letter from him. Obama visited the destroyed marina Ms Vanzant owns in Brigantine, New Jersey on October 31 and promised her 'immediate' aid. Soon after, Ms Vanzant wrote him an email.

'Many days later, I got a response back,' she told the Philadelphia Magazine. 'It was disturbing.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: sandy
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'He made a promise to help us and he broke it': Hurricane Sandy Victim pictured in embrace with Obama reveals her heartbreak at receiving standardized letter after his visit

1 posted on 01/05/2013 12:45:29 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

I bet she voted for him, too. Surprise!


2 posted on 01/05/2013 12:48:45 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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A hug, soothing words, but when it comes time to deliver-NOTHING.

A succinct illustration of the President Obama method and results.

3 posted on 01/05/2013 12:48:50 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

That’s pretty much Barky’s job as he sees it. Making empty promises with your money.


4 posted on 01/05/2013 12:50:50 PM PST by BradtotheBone (Moderate Democrat - A politician whose voting record leans left and whose vote can be bought.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Take notice that this is not being reported in the American press, which blamed the Republican Congress and specifically John Boehner.


5 posted on 01/05/2013 12:53:07 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Obama’s Katrina!
Obama doesn’t care about New Jerseyans or white people!


6 posted on 01/05/2013 12:58:02 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Hey Donna... Unfortunately you’re too stupid or apathetic to know who you were dealing with; your purpose was to provide a photo op for an evil, vile, and totally indifferent sociopath who couldn’t care less about the region’s plight. Now you feel played? Too bad, and just in case you think the media might care... He won.


7 posted on 01/05/2013 12:59:24 PM PST by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Interesting.

Things become clearer to people when situations become “personal.”


8 posted on 01/05/2013 1:06:13 PM PST by berdie
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To: Darksheare

Well, she was a business owner. President Obama probably comforted her by telling her that she didn’t build that anyway.


9 posted on 01/05/2013 1:06:13 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

What do broken promises and lies mean to a man who is held accountable for nothing and by no one?

Nothing.

The majority of Americans have the leader that they deserve.


10 posted on 01/05/2013 1:08:27 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

“It really belongs to me anyway” -Obama.


11 posted on 01/05/2013 1:08:27 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Obama is essentially sayin’:

“When I was in New Jersey, I said what you wanted to hear in order to get your vote and my photo op - NOW BUZZ OFF !!!”


12 posted on 01/05/2013 1:08:45 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

He said, Sure, Doll, I’ll respect ye in the mornin’.


13 posted on 01/05/2013 1:13:11 PM PST by lurk
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Some people need to learn the difference between “help” and a “photo op”. Barry went there for a much needed pre-election photo op.


14 posted on 01/05/2013 1:20:13 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

What did she think Obama was going to do for her?


15 posted on 01/05/2013 1:28:24 PM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
It was probably autopenned, too, just like the bills he signs into law.

There is nothing that Obama does personally anymore except appear at disasters and take vacations.

-PJ

16 posted on 01/05/2013 1:33:54 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: AtlasStalled

I dunno, go weld on some underwater twisted beams and screw down some new decking and re-roof her marina and fix her ice machine?


17 posted on 01/05/2013 1:38:43 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Colonel Kangaroo; All

give him a break - he has other, more omportant places to put our money - illegally, too boot

http://www.texasbrady.com/archives/1407


18 posted on 01/05/2013 1:49:56 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Common Sense 101

“Too bad, and just in case you think the media might care... He won.”

Yes, I have no sympathy for those that participated in letting Obama look presidential and American. Maybe Donna knows how the rest of us felt when she was used as a tool...


19 posted on 01/05/2013 1:54:21 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
When President Obama hugged a tearful New Jersey business owner after Hurricane Sandy ravaged her home and livelihood, it was the image of compassion, promise and hope.

To idiots, maybe, or possibly people who were in a coma for the last four years.

20 posted on 01/05/2013 1:54:35 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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