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1. #1
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

   Obama hates white rednecks.

   /Kanye East

2. #2
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am, MNUSMCDavid said:

   It is not without a sense of anger and wishing for revenge, that I notice not a whimper out of the media , Shepard Smith, Rachel Maddow, Olbersnot, Begala, you know who you are….. This state of emergency is as bad , people wise as Katrina… and worse due to the cold. Where’s the umbrage?

3. #3
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am, katablog said:

   What you don’t mention (and I am thrilled BTW that so many others are helping) is that FEMA and the US Government are NOT there in Kentucky and no one in the news media seems to notice or care.

   At best Kentucky gets 1 minute on nightly news broadcasts about still being without power. We have no Geraldo screaming and crying about victims; we don’t have hour after hour of news reels showing people standing on the streets begging for help. We don’t have story after story about the plight of these people who are indeed suffering.

4. #4
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am, BobK said:

   Where are Sharpton and Jackson?

   Where is um, uh, um, you know, that guy in the White House?

5. #5
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am, cpodug said:

   Noted in passing:

   (1) This will not help the C.S. 2.0 get passed – after all, who cares?

   (2) The Office of Emergency Management can’t manage a hurricane – they’ll be absolutely useless in an ice storm.

   (3) The states are going to have to do this themselves – them, and the private sector.

   (4) Looks like this is a preview of the next four years, folks. If you’re involved in a natural disaster, you’ll have to get yourself out of it. Sad as it might be, the Feds aren’t going to be there for you.

   I weep for my country, and what it has become. No longer the shining beacon of hope around the world, now the laughingstock of the world, being mocked by anyone and everyone for our newfound inability to lead, and our preference for apologizing for all our past mistakes.

6. #6
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:22 am, Socky said:

   Remember when Obama claimed 10,000 people died in the Kansas twister and blamed Bush for states not having the resource to respond?

   Obama pledged in the 2008 campaign, that “the federal government needs to be a strong, swift, effective partner with state governments in dealing with disasters.”

   So, where’s the swift response, President Hopeychange?

   Hilldawg attacked Bush for not responding to Katrina saying he just didn’t care: “It is a great injustice that you would deny the resources to your own people, but that shouldn’t surprise us, because many people are invisible to this president.”

   Is it fair to say the people in Missouri and Kentucky are invisible to this president?

7. #7
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 am, babbledabble said:

   Isn’t the Midwest just “flyover country”? That’s why the media & others don’t care.

   (I live in the Midwest BTW.)

8. #8
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 am, TimothyJ said:

   Let me get this straight. You want FEMA, with their many hundreds of unused trailers and general incompetence to help out in KY? Sounds like these great citizens are doing for themselves what needs to be done. BTW, I haven’t heard any MSM stories on looting as I did in NO. What’s up with that. Don’t these people know an opportunity when presented with one?

9. #9
   On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am, CW4_KGP said:

   How does this help Michelle O’s kids???

   Just because PBHO and his entire administration have left those goobers in Kentucky to fend for themselves does not mean he is incompetent or ignorant, or even inexperienced. He is simply being the Messiah who knows that if you give relief to people, they will come to expect it. And if they did not vote for him, well, he does not need them anyway.

   You know…give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Teach a man to fish….

   The Messiah knows what is best. Trust him and his apostl…discipl…staff. Where are Jesse, Al, and even Louis at this time of suffering and need….oh…wrong people.

   Expect the worst…it is certain to come to pass in the next 4 years. It is good to be the Messiah. And he knows that Kentucky jelly does not taste good with arugula and steak!!!

10. #10
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 am, drivingjack said:

    Calling Obamessiah insensitive is NOT going to help Michele’s children.

11. #11
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am, BobK said:

    Where are Sharpton and Jackson?

    Where is um, uh, um, you know, that guy in the White House?

    And just why would the Justice Bros and You Know want to help a bunch of Bitter Clinger Red Necks?
    Oh, that is what you said, sorry
    But I do know that quite a few of those Bitter Clingers are out helping their neighbors. A four wheeler club in Murfreesboro, TN is running their generators to stricken areas. A 2.5 or 3 kw generator just might run the heaters for these people-that is the hope and then pack as many very young and very old people into that house.

    That is some a Government Clinger might do if he sees someone else doing it, otherwise they sit on their hands and wait.
    
    The Office of Emergency Management can’t manage a hurricane but I bet they can do the paper work. Nothing wards off a flood or killer storm like good paperwork.

12. #12
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am, Michelle Malkin said:

    Let me get this straight. You want FEMA, with their many hundreds of unused trailers and general incompetence to help out in KY? Sounds like these great citizens are doing for themselves what needs to be done.

    That’s the point of my post.

13. #13
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am, heathermichelle said:

    Kudos to the surrounding states (mine included – yay Hoosiers!) for stepping up and doing the right thing. We in fly-over country know better than to sit around and wait for a government handout.

    We got some of that weather here (almost a foot of snow), but not nearly as bad as KY. I have family down there…I hope they’re alright.

14. #14
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am, DBNinKY said:

    It is bad here in KY. We don’t usually have winters like this, so to say we were unprepared for this much ice and snow is an understatement.

    But compounding all this misery, is the bitter cold shoulder Obama has given my state with his refusal to even acknowledge our emergency situation.

    Last night, for example, rather than sending KY a good thought via a SB pregame interview, he rips on Jessica Simpson’s weight. What the heck was that all about – we’re in trouble and Obama gives us gossip?

15. #15
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am, cpodug said:

    Last night, for example, rather than sending KY a good thought via a SB pregame interview, he rips on Jessica Simpson’s weight. What the heck was that all about – we’re in trouble and Obama gives us gossip?

    Those are HIS priorities, after all – in the relative scheme of things, YOU don’t count.

16. #16
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am, Paul Revere said:

    Kentucky is not one of the 57 states Obama visited.

    There are crews from NC there as well.

17. #17
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:49 am, alilianstrom said:

    BTW, I haven’t heard any MSM stories on looting as I did in NO. What’s up with that. Don’t these people know an opportunity when presented with one?

    
    Looting in Kentucky? It would be more like looters shot dead in Kentucky.
    
    Unless someone has a better suggestion I’ll be making a donation at lunchtime to the Red Cross link that Michelle posted.

18. #18
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:53 am, smfoushee said:

    “The White House Fried While Kentuckians Died”

19. #19
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 am, JHSII said:

    Obama turned up the thermostat in his Oval Office while Kentuckians froze!

    “If they can’t stand the cold, then let them have ice!”

    Obama makes this too easy…

20. #20
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm, Kwill said:

    I’m proud to be a Hoosier.

21. #21
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm, labwrs said:

    I was just on my weekly work conf call with ppl from the Southeast. Arkansas has over 50,000 ppl without power STILL. KY has been devastateded..so fa</strong>r 14 people are DEAD. Power crews from TN were in KY one day after the storm hit last week despite some parts of northern/western TN getting a taste of winter too.
    I just heard the FOX newscasters touch on this briefly..KY is a DISASTER AREA and ARK isnt much better and there is another STORM approaching! WHERE IS THE MEDIA? Oh…right…nevermind.

22. #22
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm, southsideironworks said:

    I just sent the Bluegrass chapter a $100 donation. I also dropped MM’s website address in my comment to the Red Cross.

23. #23
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm, Buy Danish said:

    Don’t you see, unlike Katrina, this disaster is good for the planet. Everyday that Kentucky residents are without power is one less carbon emission polluting the environment. These people are not victims, they are patriots. Therefore, Obama does not need to rescue them; he just needs to recognize their sacrifice and maybe make a quick video praising their contributions from the comfort of the Oval Office where he’s busy saving the world.

24. #24
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm, heathermichelle said:

    Maybe this is a bit of a stretch, but just play along for a minute.

    Does anyone else think part of the reason this story is getting no play is that, unlike Katrina, an ice storm is pretty hard to blame on Global Warming?

    Let’s face it – this is about the last thing Al Gore needs right now, what with all the stories of people defecting to the common sense side of the issue.

25. #25
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm, sims said:

    heathermichelle, my thoughts exactly! On top of that Pres. Obama has promised to make energy costs rise to the point that people have to think twice before turning their thermostat up. We in WI (who right now keep our therms at 68 days and 63 nights and only dream of 77 degrees) and those poor folks in KY are going to have to get used to being cold.

26. #26
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm, NJRepublican said:

    I think part of it is that it is COLD. NOLA was warm – no problem for Shep and Anderson to sit out there all day. But sit in the freezing cold? Forget it! They’re prissy media people – can’t have them freezing. Of course, if KY were Chicago, they’d be having school with recess outside.

27. #27
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 12:56 pm, Lindsay said:

    Power crews from other states,a band of brothers, answer the needs of the people during hurricanes or national disasters. They are given the welcome for the heroes they are. Here in Florida, you see the out of state trucks, with the Florida crews, getting into position before the storm. The convoys on I-10, after the hurricanes of 2004, brought tears to my eyes. Thank you all. You don’t appreciate power and simple things you take for granted until they are gone for a week or two.

    Also, Michelle, thanks for the shout out for Mississippi, the most giving state in the country (or, in Obama’s 57 states).

28. #28
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm, CW4_KGP said:

    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am, DBNinKY said:
    It is bad here in KY. We don’t usually have winters like this, so to say we were unprepared for this much ice and snow is an understatement.

    GLOW BULL WARMING!!!!
    And that’s all I gots to say about that!

29. #29
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm, MTConservative said:

    These folks in Kentucky that are suffering; are they primarily white folks? Must be, huh? See? There it is. Our president is a racist. He doesn’t care about white folks’ suffering.

30. #30
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm, chep said:

    If it was an urban sprawl full of black folks you would see Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson on CNN every 30 minutes scolding the populate for being white and willing this on the black man. In the mean time – Democrats think that their candidate is untouchable on the race topic because he is multi-ethnic. Even though he attended churches which spewed racial sermons for more than 20 years.

31. #31
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm, Ocracoke said:

    It was bad here in Louisville, but at least we have the equipment to clear the roads and we have fewer people depending on wells for water.

    Just ten miles outside of the city, much less thirty miles, it’s a whole other story. We have at least two towns with 95% power loss. Until at least Friday (and I’m sure longer), there had been no state, federal, or volunteer response from organized agencies.

    Everybody I know that needed shelter found it with another family here in town. We never lost power and invited anyone from our church and my work to stay.

32. #32
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm, rightwingmom said:

    I live in Louisville, KY. Back in September, people were without power for up to two weeks due to the remnants of Hurrican Ike. They project at least 14 days before everyone’s power is restored after the ice storm. Our schools have already been closed ten days this school year due to power outages.

    Everyone here tries to help one another and not whine about our situation. Those without power find shelter with a friend or family member. Several of the churches have opened emergency shelters.

    When one area regains power, they offer shelter or lend generators and heaters to others without power. We always take time to stop and thank the crews from Georgia, Mississippi, etc. who are working to help restore power.

    We don’t feel like we’re owed anything; we just want life to get back to normal. Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers while we’re getting back on our feet!

33. #33
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm, HotWeaver said:

    “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur. …” [whitehouse.gov]

34. #34
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm, les said:

    On February 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am, MNUSMCDavid said:
    This state of emergency is as bad, people wise as Katrina… and worse due to the cold.

    So let’s see, Midwest ice storm – 42 deaths; Hurricane Katrina – 1,836 deaths. So how do you define “as bad, people wise”?

35. #35
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:55 pm, pookysgirl said:

    State National Guard units get some of the toughest, unnoticed jobs. When a horrendous blizzard hit Iowa two years ago, the IA NG called every family that had a patient at home through Medicaid on a ventilator (some of my mom’s clients) and assured them that if the power went out, come hell or high drifts, the IA NG would take them to the nearest hospital safely. The IA NG had vehicles and choppers all lined up for this possibility.

    “The White House Fried While Kentuckians Died”

    Yup, but kudos to KY and the surrounding states for buckling down, doing the work, and serving the chili and beef stew.

36. #36
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 1:58 pm, shooter said:

    11:44 am, DBNinKY But … the bitter cold shoulder Obama has given my state with his refusal to even acknowledge our emergency situation.

    “..rather than sending KY a good thought via a SB pregame interview, he rips on Jessica Simpson’s weight. …we’re in trouble and Obama gives us gossip?

    Pretty much says it all.

    I live in Colorado. we have horrible blizzards that leave 4 to 5 feet of snow and we lose power for a few days.
    4 days without heat is absolutely miserable as your house plummets to 50 degrees or worse (with a fireplace going).

    Kentuckians must be absolutely miserable.

    OBAMA get off yer lazy butt and do something.
    Go without a workout for a week and give that time to the Americans who are FREEZING.

37. #37
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 2:01 pm, shooter said:

    OBAMA FRIES – KENTUCKY DIES!

    OBAMA self-pleases – Kentucky freezes.

38. #38
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm, rambler said:

    Ky can’t be freezing. We have global warming. s/off

39. #39
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm, schmanz said:

    Is Kentucky a Red State?

    According to the Ayers Plan, it’s Red States are slated for re-education — perhaps that explains the response. It’s a ‘get with the plan, or get out of the way’ world now.

40. #40
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm, Lan Astaslem said:

    Hey fellow Kentuckians! And thanks to everyone on the boards for the kind thoughts and all the help. I’m in central KY, and we are essentially okay. Still lots of ice on the ground, trees down, and some folks still without power, but basically everyone just does what needs to be done. My mom still lives in my hometown (Madisonville) in western KY, and they are in a world of hurt. Power was knocked out to the entire town, and is slowly getting restored. She talked to one of the electrical workers this morning. He had driven out to check on utility poles. In a stretch of ~300 poles, more than 200 were down. It’s still going to be weeks before things are restored — and that’s only if the weather holds. I’m annoyed as all get-out with the lack of attention being paid to this situation, but I also know that a lot of people in this area really don’t want to hear “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.”

41. #41
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm, Lan Astaslem said:

    On February 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm, schmanz said:
    Is Kentucky a Red State?

    For the most part, yes, but often just barely. We have a Dim (yes, dim..) Governor now, two Repub Senators — although the one that is giving MM brain damage keeps trending into the RINO category — and Red in 6 of the last 10 Presidential elections.

42. #42
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm, MtsEdge said:

    Sounds like these great citizens are doing for themselves what needs to be done.

    Hear, hear!

    I’m thinking Obama doesn’t want to leave his warm, snuggly office to go and visit a disaster area like KY. Of course, if the disaster was in a warmer climate, I’m sure he’d find some other excuse to be conspicuously absent.

43. #43
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Weary Citizen said:

    It’s Kentucky’s own fault that the feds are not falling all over themselves to provide assistance. They obviously have not gotten with the diversity program. If there were more welfare dependent minorities in the state, obummer himself would have visited the area (along with every other publicity seeking, hand wringing, scum pol) and proclaimed it a “disaster area of historcial proportions”. Of course the gov’t will have the answer to that problem. Next wave of refugees from some 3rd world country will call KY home. You guys are better off not getting help from the feds. Payback is h*ll.

44. #44
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pm, Gottafang said:

    Amen to my fellow Kentuckians posting here – especially Rightwingmom, a fellow Louisvillian.

    Thanks to everyone who has sent prayers, good vibes, and a few dollars. Our household was fortunate (we made our house available to friends and family without power, but they managed otherwise), but there are still so many that aren’t.

45. #45
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm, heathermichelle said:

    Is it mostly western KY? I have family in the eastern part of the state – Winchester, Mt. Sterling – and I have no idea what’s going on with them…

46. #46
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm, Gottafang said:

    Oh. . .I forgot to mention you, too, Ocracoke.

47. #47
    On February 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm, kyconservative said:

    Here in KY we for voted McCain by over 16 points. We aren’t holding our breath and waiting for the Messiah to come and help us.

48. #48
    On February 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am, Andy said:

    Just a thot. OK got socked with a freeze just before Christmas 07. Didn’t see much, if any, of FEMA either. Mostly Red Cross, National Guard and ordinary Joes doing what ever to help each other thru. Also had help from TX, AR and others to restore power.

    Granted, OK may be sparse population-wise, but in terms of real-estate, we got hammered pretty good with power out for as long as 20 days in some areas.

    Maybe, it’s not just the One, but the fact that FEMA simply doesn’t do Cold Weather disasters. In that case, no point in Obambi talking about the current situation, as it would only serve to highlight that here’s a situation where “Mr. Proactive” got caught with his pants down — so to speak.

49. #49
    On February 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm, Ocracoke said:

    Louisville kids went back to school today. National Guardsmen saved the life of a couple whose furnace malfunctioned yesterday. The Guard is trying to knock on every door–the couple said they felt dizzy, and the Guardsmen’s CO detector registered fatal levels of buildup.

    Thanks to all who are giving their money, time, and effort to help those in need.