Should Obama visit Ferguson?

matteos · #1 03-13-2015, 01:03 AM

I'm not aware he has yet. A half black, half white president. Very logical, doesn't rely on his emotions. A situation that seems to escalate and seems to be the focus of the nation with similar incidents repeating itself Throughout the country for months . I think he's should go there. There's no one better, in many ways he's the perfect candidate to heal this race fragmentation were currently experiencing. . I'm probably a 70 percent fan of his, which is probably quite high. . He's coming to la this weekend for Jimmy kimmel and a fundraiser. Honestly his time is better spent in Ferguson. That would show real leadership. .. and he won't clog up our freeways... and Jimmy kimmel is so unimportant as well as his fundraiser.

matteos · #2 03-13-2015, 01:04 AM

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sheltiedave · #3 03-13-2015, 06:43 AM

Obama should not visit Ferguson while in office. There are many more effective things he can do as President than to waste time on a photo op. Besides, the situation has mutated beyond the point where he would be safe.

CarlV · #4 03-13-2015, 11:07 AM

Nope, I don't think him going there could be anything but a symbolic photo-op. He has plenty other things do deal with and the Republicans and the Fox sheeple are going to bitch whether he does go or not anyway.
I take it you don't think our President needs or deserves any time off?
Good reading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...0ce_story.html

Carl

bobabode · #5 03-13-2015, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by CarlV

Nope, I don't think him going there could be anything but a symbolic photo-op. He has plenty other things do deal with and the Republicans and the Fox sheeple are going to bitch whether he does go or not anyway.
I take it you don't think our President needs or deserves any time off?
Good reading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...0ce_story.html

Carl

Here's some rightwing stupidity for lunch, Duhmerica's mayor Rudy Ghouliani opined that he wished the President would be more like Bill 'Rufie' Cosby after those two cops were shot in Ferguson.

CarlV · #6 03-13-2015, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by bobabode

Here's some rightwing stupidity for lunch, Duhmerica's mayor Rudy Ghouliani opined that he wished the President would be more like Bill 'Rufie' Cosby after those two cops were shot in Ferguson.

No bigger piece of s*** than Rudy.

Say, Bush was on an extended vacation when Katerina hit. IIRC he cut short to return to Washington which was unnecessary and unneeded, but he did fly right over N.O., even had the plane fly low but did not land or visit for quite some time. Right thing to do or wrong?

Carl

matteos · #7 03-13-2015, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by sheltiedave

Obama should not visit Ferguson while in office. There are many more effective things he can do as President than to waste time on a photo op. Besides, the situation has mutated beyond the point where he would be safe.

He is in LA to go on Jimmy Kimmel. That is not a better use of his time.

bobabode · #8 03-14-2015, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by matteos

He is in LA to go on Jimmy Kimmel. That is not a better use of his time.

Everybody's a critic...So what? You aren't some disgruntled golfer who got tee time bumped by Obummer, are you?

The way I see it is the Kimmel show was a respite from after attending a political fundraiser during a working vacation. A time honored Presidential tradition whether you lean left or right and even more important since the Citizens United ruling and that other recent RW SCOTUS ruling McKutcheon vs. FEC, IIRC.

Even the LATimes was bitching about traffic, big effin' woo. As a LA native I wish three quarters of the assholes who moved her from parts east would pack up their shit and head back to Texas or Louisiana or New Jersey or whatever god forsaken shithole state they came from. ((sarcasm))

BlueStreak · #9 03-16-2015, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by sheltiedave

Obama should not visit Ferguson while in office. There are many more effective things he can do as President than to waste time on a photo op. Besides, the situation has mutated beyond the point where he would be safe.

Like all of the right-wing nut cases who think he should attend each and every military death and the fact that he doesn't is somehow proof that he hates the military?

Think of the silly waste of time that would be.

Dave

donquixote99 · #10 03-13-2015, 11:12 AM

It would all depend on what he did when he got there. This President is so risk-adverse (and not without reason) that he wouldn't go there to make a bold, chancy move. So there's no reason for him to go.