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"Monster" Colorado wildfire rages; Obama plans visit
Reuters ^ | June 27, 2012 | Keith Coffman

Posted on 06/27/2012 7:20:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(Reuters) - Firefighters struggled on Wednesday to beat back a fiercely aggressive wildfire raging at the edge of Colorado Springs that has forced at least 35,000 people from their homes and was nipping at the edges of the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The so-called Waldo Canyon Fire, fanned by gusting winds, has gutted an unknown number of homes on the wooded fringes of Colorado's second-most populous city and prompted more evacuations as flames roared out of control for a fifth day.

President Barack Obama plans to pay a visit to the area on Friday to view the damage, the White House said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: campaignprop; coloradofires; coloradosprings; obama; obamafirephotoop; obamaphotoop; photoop; waldocanyonfire
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe it’s fitting he’s going to see raging fires then, as Obamacare will be going down in flames tomorrow.


41 posted on 06/27/2012 8:16:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: DuncanWaring

I thought about it later after I typed it, but think of it more as a high pressure fuel vapor bomb, sucks all the air out of the surrounding atmosphere and you suffocate. Because it’s going to be coming out of those big ol’ butt cheeks very, very fast.


42 posted on 06/27/2012 8:19:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Unless Air Farce Zero is prepared to perform low level water drops, I don’t think his skinny butt flying in here and grounding fire fighting flights is going to go over so well.

Every time the President’s plane flies there is a 30 mile TFR put up around it.


43 posted on 06/27/2012 8:20:20 PM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Irish Eyes

I just do not know.
I have decided fight or drink or drink while fighting, no matter what I am sickened.
It just makes me weep.


44 posted on 06/27/2012 8:21:40 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Another disaster visits Colorado.


45 posted on 06/27/2012 8:23:08 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: hal ogen

I do not know Colorado very well, is the fire in a conservative area of the state or a liberal part? It all comes down to politics with obama


46 posted on 06/27/2012 8:23:08 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: Irish Eyes

See Post 16.


47 posted on 06/27/2012 8:25:52 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: depressed in 06

Maybe George Clooney or Fat Al Sharpton will show up. Bad things often happen in threes.


48 posted on 06/27/2012 8:25:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: hal ogen

Haven’t we suffered enough in Colorado?


49 posted on 06/27/2012 8:28:08 PM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What? You mean there isn’t already enough hot air in the region?


50 posted on 06/27/2012 8:32:06 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: svcw

Colorado Springs, where the fire is, is the most conservative part of the state. It is home to focus on the family and the nsvigators. It is probably the only area of the state more conservative than the arapahoe/Douglas county area I live in. There will be no love for Obama turning their disaster into a campaign stop, believe me. I can’t print what my father in law (who is currently staying with us because he is evacuated from the colo spgs fire) said when he heard Obama was headed into town.


51 posted on 06/27/2012 8:33:20 PM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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52 posted on 06/27/2012 8:34:11 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Mom MD

In 2008 BHO took Colorado, hopefully they learn who he really is for 2012.


53 posted on 06/27/2012 8:37:43 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Irish Eyes

ElPaso County is the most conservative county in Colorado. I doubt that the great BO will give much to us, but who knows, this is a swing state. His performance and Marxist agenda doesn’t play well here even with a lot of DIM’s.


54 posted on 06/27/2012 8:39:43 PM PDT by ptshredder (Take back the US to it's constituional limits!)
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To: svcw

I know he took Colorado. My point was there are conservative parts of the state where the won will find little welcome. As for Colorado leaning left, if we kept illegal immigrants (and California transplants) from voting, there would be a markedly different result.


55 posted on 06/27/2012 8:49:33 PM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Has anyone offered the services of the Mars yet?


56 posted on 06/27/2012 8:51:16 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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To: MtnClimber

Gutless hussein couldn’t even carry a chainsaw up a fire line at 7 or 8 thousand feet, let alone start it and use it.


57 posted on 06/27/2012 8:52:07 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Breto

Moved in from the West Coast to escape the Mexican invasion and the implosions of the state government. Got the price of a mansion from selling a California shack.


58 posted on 06/27/2012 8:59:10 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: Mom MD

Living in California it is as frustrating as well. Most of California is right leaning, but the way districts are drawing the LA basin, San Francisco and the coast are given a real advantage.
CA will go for BHO because of that. If delegate were just awarded on the popular vote probably not.
If you look at the blue/red maps CA is amazingly RED.


59 posted on 06/27/2012 8:59:51 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I was thinking that the Beast would feel right at home there now.


60 posted on 06/27/2012 9:02:21 PM PDT by WVNan ("Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy." - Winston)
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