Comments on: Barack Obama’s $1.1 Million Botanical Garden — Er, $100,000 Gazebo

By: ji

ji — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:39:03 +0000

Again and again Obama’s skeletons in the closet keep coming up, but all the MSM can do is try to find something on Palin.
Not a word about Obama.

By: Chris, St. Petersburg

Chris, St. Petersburg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:40:13 +0000

There is nothing tougher than trying to clean up and stand up a neighborhood gone bad. Yeah, this is laughable, but it’s also cry-able.

What was Obama’s mission when he went into Rosedale, a neighborhood blighted by the closing of the steel mills? Hint; it wasn’t this.

All over the Country steel mills shut down because of unions and process. We don’t mine iron, in this Country, because it is cheaper to buy steel shipped across the world. We actually buy steel, in this Country, that is made from scrap iron we send to foreign countries, melted down, then re-processed and sent back here. That’s cheaper than making our own steel from our own iron ore, in union cities. We also process scrap iron in non-union cities in this Country.

Barack Obama’s mission was to bring jobs to Rosedale, but he wouldn’t buck the unions, so he wouldn’t bring any jobs. Except for a one-week job for a small (probably union) carpentry crew to build that gazebo.

Jeez, the least he coulda done was had it be made from steel! That thing won’t last 20 years; even the shingles don’t appear to be architectural grade and may not last that long!

By: ji

ji — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:43:47 +0000

Thats about 50 miles from where I live. I will see about getting some pics.
Not a good neighborhood though.

By: Blogengeezer

Blogengeezer — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:11:57 +0000

I worked that neighborhood about 50 years ago driving a truck. Had to be careful, real careful and always alert. kind of like being in parts of Iraq before Petraeus troops got a grip on it. Tough town like many in the USA, but survivable if you are street savvy and get out before it grabs you. Good reporting.

By: Kurt(the McCain/Palin infidel)

Kurt(the McCain/Palin infidel) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:40:11 +0000

hell i would have built that gazebo for 1/20th the cost of that. even less. what were they charging? about 20 bucks a nail. 5 bucks per nail in labor costs on top of that.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:23:06 +0000

you know. the funny thing is. Obama is what? 40-something years old. McCain is pretty old. We all know that. How is Obama so shady and has so many skeletons in his closet! The Obama camp has nothing really on McCain so they are going after the VP! Is this really a guy you can trust be president? way to go dems. This is really the best of the best for you?

By: billie (barracuda)

billie (barracuda) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:07:28 +0000

I’ve got a carpenter friend who could build the gazebo by himself in a week’s time or less, and the bill would be, like Kurt commented above, 1/20th of what Obama paid.

I think people should stay on this story. I hope Rush Limbaugh picks up on it.

By: Steven D

Steven D — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:13:15 +0000

So will this be called “The Gazebo To Nowhere”?

By: Steve Rogers

Steve Rogers — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:21:18 +0000

Give Barry a $550 donation and get a $100,000 grant, that makes Hillary’s cattle futures small potatoes.

BHO- change we can cash in on.

By: TedB

TedB — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:15:40 +0000

If anything it is a monument to liberalism! See, we came in and did something that felt good and then left you holding the bag! Thanks for your support! See you next time!

Isn’t anyone’s eyes open in that neighborhood?

Yeah, they have a gazebo, for how ever long that untreated wood will last, for crackheads to shelter in and hang out and further destroy that neighborhood. Where is the maintenance crew to cut the grass?

I had to laugh when I read that the money went into ground preparation for the jobsite. So what, they made a greenfield? (removal of all underground obstuctions like pipes and rocks and doing soil analysis, etc.) Kenny Smith is $95,000.00 richer.

I’ll say it again, he just ain’t that smart…

Obonehead.

By: Mike Mose

Mike Mose — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:40:22 +0000

Obama isn’t vetted fully and it is unimaginable how this Democrat could possibly get a security clearance to be President.

By: jasjfarrell

jasjfarrell — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:45:58 +0000

Is this what to expect from all of those government funded “green” jobs Obama talks about?

By: CBL

CBL — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:15:15 +0000

Ummm yeah don’t go there at night.

Why they would choose to stick it in some shit-hole west side neighborhood…well I guess that adds to the fact that the 100k just dissappeared.