October 16, 2009
barry goes to Louisiana to talk in pre-set sterilized townhall meetings. He didn’t go to Katrina-ravaged areas – so what was the point? Swing state and to say he was there?
Here he is a snippet of his hard-hitting townhall at University of New Orleans. In attendance were Gov Bobby Jindal, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Sen Mary Landrieu and a cute little 4th grade boy, Tyren Scott.
Hard to believe this wasn’t scripted. Especially the way he halted asking it like he was trying to remember what to say and also since it was the last question.
If he went to the still-ravaged areas, the question would gave been:
Child who hasn’t been able to go to school: Why do you hate us?
POTUS: What do you mean?
Child: You don’t care about us. We still don’t have a house or a school or a playground. My mom cries all the time cuz she doesn’t have a job cuz where she worked isn’t there any more and my dad left to get a job and never came back and my brother just gets drunk and eats all our food and my grandma died because she couldn’t pay for medicine. We’ve been living in that crummy trailer – you know rats get in that hole there at night and chew on my only pair of shoes – and I can’t play with my friends because they’re all gone. So, Mr President, you gotta hate us cuz otherwise you’d be helping us.
POTUS: Uh,uh, uh…
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It’s hard to tell if the boy thinks barry is God.
POTUS: All right, I’ve got time for one more question. It’s a man’s turn, isn’t it? It’s a guy’s turn. Okay, here’s — this young man, right here. I’m going to let him use my special mic. Hey, this is a big guy — don’t go “awww.” Come on, man, I mean, this is a — all right, what’s your name?
Fourth grader: Tyren Scott.
POTUS: Terrence Scott. What do you have to say?
TYREN SCOTT: I have to say, why do people hate you and why — they supposed to love you, and God is love and –
POTUS: That’s what I’m talking about. (Laughter and applause.) Come on.
barry hugs the crowd and looks right at the cameraman and photographers.
POTUS: That’s what I’m talking about. Terrence. I appreciate that. What grade are you in?
SCOTT: Fourth.
POTUS: You’re in fourth grade? Well, now, first of all, I did get elected President, so not everybody hates me, now. I don’t want you to — (laughter.) I got a whole lot of votes. I want to make sure everybody understands. But you know, what is true is if you were watching TV lately, it seems like everybody is just getting mad all the time. And, you know, I think that you’ve got to take it with a grain of salt. Some of it is just what’s called politics, where once one party wins then the other party kind of gets — feels like it needs to poke you a little bit to keep you on your toes. And so you shouldn’t take it too seriously.
And then sometimes — as I said before, people just — I think they’re worried about their own lives. A lot of people are losing their jobs right now. A lot of people are losing their health care or they’ve lost their homes to foreclosure. And they’re feeling frustrated. And when you’re President of the United States, you know, you’ve got to deal with all of that. That’s exactly right. And, you know, you get some of the credit when things go good; and when things are going tough, then you’re going to get some of the blame and that’s part of the job.
But, you know, I’m a pretty tough guy. Are you a tough guy? You look like you’re pretty tough. And so you’ve just got to keep on going even when folks are criticizing you. Because as long as you know that you’re doing it for other people. All right? (Applause.)
Shakes hands with Tyren – Secret Service standing by.
POTUS: So thank you. You’re a fine young man. I appreciate you. (Applause.) Give Terrence a big round of applause.
The end.
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