Posted on 04/18/2012 1:13:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Once Needed 'to Take a Subway or a Bus Just to Find a Fresh Piece of Fruit’ By Penny Starr April 18, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Barack Obama's vision as president is shaped by the fact that he knows what "it's like to take a subway or a bus just to find a fresh piece of fruit in a grocery store," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said last week.
Donovan seemed to be suggesting that the president had once lived in what First Lady Michelle Obama now refers to as a "food desert"--a place without a nearby supermarket. The First Lady has launched an initiative to eliminate these places.
“Why has all this work been such a priority for the president and every one of us in the administration?” Donovan said. “Because he knows what you know: He knows what it’s like to walk the halls of public housing because he’s worked there.”
“He knows what it’s like to walk the streets of some of our cities’ poorest neighborhoods because he’s lived there,” Donovan said. “What it’s like to take a subway or a bus just to find a fresh piece of fruit in a grocery store.”
Donovan also said the president had to “wonder” about whether he could “afford a college education or decent health care” or be “judged” unfairly.
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That was really hilarious!
:D
Sheesh!
Yeah, but probably only temporarily, and not in the way you might think. She'll conclude it's "typical" evil white people conspiring to deprive "hood" residents of fruit, and her solution will be to force merchants to open money losing branches. The idea of changing the behavior of the real sources of the problem would give her the shivers.
Obama Once Needed ‘to Take a Subway or a Bus Just to Find a Fresh Piece of Fruit’
Big Whup.
0bama tried to get the Secret Service to loot the fruit with him but they decided to stick with melons and cookies.
"Fresh piece of fruit" is slang for what?
Dat would homo-bonics for seeking underage boys, see also pederasty, 'chickenhawk'.
He's a liar. He lived in a middle class neighborhood and went to a private school from the fifth grade on in Hawaii.
AND...he went to Harvard....which is NOT located on the poor side of town...plenty of access to stores as well.
I had help. LOL
Typical white granny's bank boss was on the board of Punahou so he had it made scholarshipwise.
Guess what parking lot he had to walk through between home and school every day? The Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children. Yep, he walked past this hospital every day yet can't remember which of the two hospitals he was born at. As if his typical white granny wouldn't have stopped one day on the way to the grocery to buy him a piece of fruit and say, "Look, Barry, that's the room where you were born!"
Wouldn't surprise me!
He wanted a little on the side.......
We still don't have buses or subways.
Nice hat, Laz! Er, boss.
He'll have more latitude after his election, or at least that's what he said.
Stalin and the Kulaks come to mind.
It is racism: some people don’t like Koreans or other Orientals.
How in the world was this nation settled without grocery stores around the corner?
Can a person make a trip to the store and buy groceries for the week? I regularly do that. Maybe it’s unhealthy and I didn’t know it....
And the fruit’s name was Larry what?
“We should amend the Declaration.”
Here goes:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness, and fresh Bananas.
While I’m at it, why don’t I help them rewrite the commerce clause:
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes, and within the States, and to regulate stuff that isn’t really Commerce, and to create Commerce in order to regulate it.
Oh, how about the Second Amendment; I only need totake out one word:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall be infringed.
This is boring, we don’t need anything but:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do let Washington do whatever the heck it wants.
Maybe he was in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge?
Obummer Once Needed ‘to Take a Subway or a Bus Just to Find a Fresh Piece of A__’
lol — no doubt TJ would be impressed...
For the last 25 years I’ve had to drive at least 6 miles (Oh, the unutterable horrorr of it!) to buy any groceries, and wouldn’t have it ant other way. FU Obama!
Powerline has this about so-called food deserts
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/another-obama-lie-debunked-by-the-new-york-times.php
Anyways...I know what it’s like to have to pay $4/gallon of gas to drive 10 miles to the closest store that has fresh fruit.
ROTFLMAO!!!
ROTFLMAO!!!
Exactly!!!!
The libs were having a fit at the dog jokes on twitter.
They want soooo bad for Romney to pay the price for sticking Seamus on the roof that they’ve missed the whole point.
It isn’t that Obama ate dog as a kid - afterall, he just ate what the adults put in front of him.
It’s that his upbringing was completely foreign. He cannot connect with americans because he didn’t experience mainland america until he was already an adult
Shame on you for not learning your Ebonics. The proper spelling of “child” is “chile.”
Obama tiene a la fruta con el botín, y ocupado su equipo de seguridad de los melones y las galletas. Entonces todo es una relación sexual de cabra de las agrupaciones.
las cucarachas...las cucarachas...
Meanwhile who is talking about Obama’s record? Hell , we will have a scandal a week.
All farmers must be collectivized and the evil Kulaks either reeducated or, even better, liquidated.
I remember in Las Vegas when the only Costco was on Martin Luther King Blvd. That really worked out great, when we went to Vegas, one Costco shopping trip was more than enough for us. Costco then wised up and built a store out in the suburbs. Don't know if the Costco on MLK Blvd is still there or not.
The president grew up in Hawaii. He lived in Indonesia and had a transvestite nanny. I don’t think those places are food deserts. He went to an Ivy League university prior to choosing to work as a community organizer in Chicago. He then attended Harvard Law School. Do they not teach how to grow food at those pricey schools? I bet the president knew where to get some of the white powdery stuff in Chicago without having to hop a bus or subway. Priorities.
all that means is he didn't own a car, and was tooo lazy to walk...
A disgracefully corrupted dog, by now hopelessly irredemable. I’m glad I haven’t corrupted my Pitador and Great Dane the same way. They only sleep with me because of the terrible danger of irreversible rejection trauma if I didn’t let them share the bed with me.
I see my best option as ridiculing everything about 0bama and the left and laughing in the face of anyone who takes him seriously. I'll treat him and them as a joke. If that makes them mad then I've done my job. If that makes them take a swing at me then I'll really do a job on them. :-)
We live in AZ midway between Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City. It is a 35 mile trip to either for shopping, and we only go in once about every three weeks or monthly. But we live out here by choice and would have it no other way.
A disgracefully corrupted dog, by now hopelessly irredemable. I’m glad I haven’t corrupted my Pitador and Great Dane the same way. They only sleep with me because of the terrible danger of irreversible rejection trauma if I didn’t let them share the bed with me.
I cannot imagine that there is not fruit growing everywhere in Indonesia either.
Leftists are such lying pukes!
Today’s NYTs has a large article on a study debunking the whole “food desert” myth. It’s worth a read.
Gee, if you live in the White House, I’d imagine it’s quite a schlep to the the nearest grocery store, but do you really want to make such situations the basis for public policy for the rest of the country? A lot of “food deserts” may be in wealthy, gated communities.
Just thought I'd correct the title a little.
One of their best sketches! I was lucky enough to see them live at City Center in the late 70s (or early 80s) and they did that sketch brilliantly.
Yep, whitey here just spending my time keeping the black man down.
What a bunch of crappola.
Yep, whitey here just spending my time keeping the black man down.
What a bunch of crappola.
Go to the schools...Dog meat is now “for the children”
Well he is fond of poodle pot pie....
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