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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Gina on April 19, 2012, 08:54:49 AM

Title: Obama's been there!
Post by: Gina on April 19, 2012, 08:54:49 AM
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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.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-once-needed-take-subway-or-bus-just-find-fresh-piece-fruit

Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: Rebel on April 19, 2012, 09:05:15 AM
And I know how to fly a 767, because I'm flown in a few.  :whatever:
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: Maxiest on April 19, 2012, 09:21:13 AM
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.  :naughty:
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: Gina on April 19, 2012, 09:33:01 AM
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.  :naughty:

so you are an expert at being really quick, eh?   :popcorn:
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: JohnnyReb on April 19, 2012, 09:33:51 AM
Being a community organizer takes you places you really don't want to go. But you have to do it for the money.
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: Maxiest on April 19, 2012, 09:34:23 AM
so you are an expert at being really quick, eh?   :popcorn:

 :bird:
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: Chris_ on April 19, 2012, 09:45:33 AM
Being a community organizer takes you places you really don't want to go. But you have to do it for the money.
Funny, that's my definition of a whore.
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: NHSparky on April 19, 2012, 05:41:54 PM
I for one love their definition of a "food desert," which is any place that doesn't have a grocery store or other food source within one mile for a majority of residents.

I live in one.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/fooddesert.html

There are three grocery stores within three miles of my house, not including the Cumberland Farms and other mini-mart places.

What a bunch of whiny bitches.
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: thundley4 on April 19, 2012, 05:45:10 PM
I for one love their definition of a "food desert," which is any place that doesn't have a grocery store or other food source within one mile for a majority of residents.

I live in one.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/fooddesert.html

There are three grocery stores within three miles of my house, not including the Cumberland Farms and other mini-mart places.

What a bunch of whiny bitches.

There are a bunch of small towns throughout Illinois and I'm sure every other state that don't have stores, not even a gas station within a mile that would meet their definition.
Title: Re: Obama's been there!
Post by: Lacarnut on April 19, 2012, 06:28:30 PM
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.  :naughty:

How much is that doggie in the window. Obama and Moochelle can go chow down now.