Another example of a liberal "caring" about the homeless

I didn't find it particularly offensive or particularly funny but this gave it some context:



Obviously it didn't get ignored. It was in the local news where it belonged.

Let's hear some more of these "another example" examples to get a rounded picture.

I'm fairly politically liberal and I find his comment (off the cuff, joke, whatever you want to call it) in bad taste.

If he were thinking of the homeless person as an individual with needs he was concerned about having addressed- he'd have said something like, "Let's get these people a way to get somewhere where they will have the support they need- we can't handle it here."

He's lumping them together and making them a 'problem' that he wants to relocate away from HIS city - for good- preferably.

Homeless people are aware they're seen as a problem no one wants to deal with. But it's pretty tasteless to try to 'joke' about it.

Liberals can be tasteless ***holes too- especially when they're aspiring to power in politics.

A politician is a politician wether democratic or conserative.

Woops! I meant to say republican. There are conserative democrats also.

Obama Highlights Plan to Build New Orleans
February 07, 2008 12:16 PM

ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Echoing themes central to John Edwards, Barack Obama argued against the "empty promises" that George Bush made to the city of New Orleans after the devastation of hurricane Katrina.

"When President Bush came down to Jackson Square two weeks after the storm, the setting was spectacular and his promises soaring: "We will do what it takes," he said. "We will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives." But over two years later, those words have been caught in a tangle of half-measures, half-hearted leadership, and red tape."

Obama told a Tulane crowd of 5,000 that he won't be a president that watches people from the window of an airplane instead of on the ground. The Obama campaign pointed out that this is Obama's fifth visit to New Orleans since Katina stuck. His last visit was in August as a presidential candidate.

"If catastrophe comes, the American people must be able to call on a competent government. When I am President, the days of dysfunction and cronyism in Washington will be over. No more Brownie. No more heads of the Arabian Horse Association," Obama said referencing Michael Brown, the head of FEMA under the storm.

Obama outlined his plan to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast - a plan he's announced before - including having the FEMA director, with a fixed term report to him directly.

"I don't want FEMA to be thinking for one minute about the politics of a crisis. I want FEMA to do its job, which is protecting the American people - not protecting a President's political future."

Obama weaved in his argument of past vs. the future that he's been hawking since the South Carolina primary, applying it to the reaction to Katrina, "We can begin to turn the page on the invisible barriers - the silent storms - that have ravaged this city and this country: the old divisions of black and white; of rich and poor. It's time to leave that to yesterday. It's time to choose tomorrow."

It was a joke.

Not particularly funny, but just a joke without any malignance intended.

We need more politicians with a sense of humor, not less.

An important component of having a sense of humor is realizing which subjects lend themselves to actual levity and which don't.

Having no place to live is not funny. Being unwanted (for whatever reason) is not funny.

The fact that he'd joke about this makes me respect him less than if he'd come right out and said, 'No joke - I don't want to have to deal with these people.'

What we need are more politicians with the courage to tell the truth straight out. A sense of humor is relative - the truth isn't.

Well, I guess he's just have to try and get re-elected without your support.

Fewer.