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How's that Hope-n-Change® working out for you liberals out there?

1 posted on 12/13/2009 1:18:27 AM PST by Mad Dawgg

2 posted on 12/13/2009 1:19:28 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)

5 posted on 12/13/2009 2:26:24 AM PST by Bon mots

6 posted on 12/13/2009 2:44:31 AM PST by Iron Munro (God is great - Beer is good - People are crazy.)

The MSM is so predictable. Approximately 30 minutes after GW Bush took office in January 2001, homelessness became rampant by the number of news stories suddenly addressing the topic.

7 posted on 12/13/2009 3:20:13 AM PST by NautiNurse (Obama: A day without TOTUS is like a day without sunshine)

Media just doing its job, as usual - getting liberals elected and keeping them in office.

8 posted on 12/13/2009 3:57:54 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Is it because that happened so soon after Inauguration Day that it could easily be blamed on George W. Bush, and that given the name given to this area that's no longer possible?

I pass this area every day and have stopped a couple of times to bring these guys some things (as much as I can in these terrible times). The area is right near a veteran's center, sandwiched between I-25 and the river. Most of them have been there since last year.

A lot of these people are veterans and are there to access the vet medical clinic nearby. One guy closest to the freeway raises and lowers the American flag each day on a makeshift pole. I doubt sincerely that these signs displayed in the article could have been created or paid for by any of these folks. Likely, they were placed there by people with an agenda other than helping these needy and deserving folks survive what has so far been a brutal winter.

What's needed here are blankets and food and prayers. Not disingenuous crap and lies. These folks have been used and discarded enough.

9 posted on 12/13/2009 4:03:38 AM PST by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)

10 posted on 12/13/2009 4:14:05 AM PST by lowbridge ("We may be wrong, but the point is, we believe in what we're doing." - Joe Biden)

By contrast, when word got out in March of a tent city in Sacramento, California, news media couldn't get enough of the story. Is it because that happened so soon after Inauguration Day that it could easily be blamed on George W. Bush, and that given the name given to this area that's no longer possible?

In fact, that was even more obvious gratuitous Bush-bashing than the question supposes. That "tent city" (of about 20 tents) in Sacramento had been there for at least thirty years. The MSM was careful to never take a picture from more than like 50 feet away to show how small it really was.

12 posted on 12/13/2009 4:30:40 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)

22 posted on 12/13/2009 10:06:47 AM PST by Bon mots

24 posted on 12/13/2009 2:35:20 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)

33 posted on 12/14/2009 7:15:53 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)

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