with the messiah in office there will be no criticism, no crying, no need to care about the people of kentucky. it can't be used as a political football against the republicans, because the dems are in charge.
On Feb 2, 9:18 pm, Jim Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > To watch the mainstream media, “from our Illinois perspective” one > might conclude that Kentucky is merely struggling a bit amidst a > winter wonderland of sunshine and lollipops. Having visited the > bluegrass state over the weekend I can attest to the complete disaster > visited upon them a full week ago. > > Kentucky was victimized last Monday by an ice storm, “3 inches” that > effectively shut the state down. To date; there remains gas lines, > food shortages, water outages and almost 300,000 households without > electricity. Kentucky’s Governor, Steve Beshear, Democrat, has been > quick to complain about everything except the federal response. > > Yet, the residents we spoke to railed against FEMA and the federal > response in general. Megan Gore, of the Paducah area noted that as > soon as FEMA showed up, the gas and kerosene dried up. Electric > generators ceased to exist, electronic purchases halted and even the > local WAL-MART had to have security usher twenty-five shoppers in at a > time, to a store without power. > > Here in Springfield we confirmed that only one store had generators in > stock and their supply was dwindling to three units. We were told > that every generator was headed to Kentucky. And; they weren’t being > purchased by FEMA. > > It’s little wonder that the freshly minted Obama administration hasn’t > broken a sweat for a state he lost by twenty points and it’s even less > of a surprise that the Democrat Governor hasn’t taken the leader of > his party to task for his inaction. After all; there’s infrastructure > money for the states to be had and it’s a safe bet Governor Beshear > doesn’t want to lose his place in line. > > Still, as of today, at least twenty deaths are attributed to the after > effects of the storm, Many due to ill vented kerosene heaters and > hypothermia. But, as residents in Graves and McCracken counties told > us; wait until they go door to door. > > Much of Kentucky is rural and elderly. Many of these people have been > living without electricity, water, food or heat for more than a week. > They expect the death toll to go much higher. > > All the while Governor Beshear puts lipstick on this pig; as people > die. What we want to know is this; Where are the Charlie Gibson’s, the > Katie Couric’s, the Shepard Smith’s crying on the overpass asking > where are the FEDS? Where is Obama’s FEMA and where’s Obama? > > The only positive in this story are the people of Kentucky themselves. > Antidotal as our observations were, we suspect what we noticed is in > fact statewide. Nobody was waiting for FEMA and it’s a good thing. We > saw people with chainsaws, neighbors helping each other and a grit > unseen in New Orleans. We saw Americans; we saw what founded this > country and made it into what it is today. We saw spirit and guts. We > saw. > > Conservative Springfield Staff 02FEB09 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
