Obama Porkway: Road Built With Stimulus Money Will Bear President’s Name
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers

I’m only guessing that, when it’s completed, Pres. Barack Obama Parkway in Orlando, Florida will lead straight to the Magic Kingdom:
Is it too soon to name a road after President Barack Obama? A new road being built through Orlando will have his name.
Roads in Orlando honor some of our greatest presidents, from Washington to Jefferson and now Obama.
On Friday, Orlando leaders made President Barack Obama Parkway the first road under construction in the nation named after our 44th president, and surely one of the few in history to be named after a sitting president in his first term.
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Two hundred jobs will be created to build the first $10.5 million phase of the road, which will connect with Metrowest Boulevard.
Most roads that are constructed are paid for with taxpayer dollars, but the fact that the first new road named after Barack Obama is being funded by his beloved “stimulus” is only appropriate.
If you’re in Orlando looking for this road, it’s just a mile west of the intersection of Hope and Change, and a half-mile east of the corner of Shovel and Ready. Why did local officials decide to name the stimulus road after the president? Because “A Blatant Attempt to Bankrupt America Boulevard” wouldn’t fit on the sign.
President Obama has a long way to go before surpassing Robert Byrd on the “stuff named after me that somebody else paid for” list, but if enough taxpayer money keeps being dumped into “shovel ready” projects, he’ll catch up in no time.
A photo of the Obamas, Joe Biden and Hillary taking their first drive down Pres. Barack Obama Parkway is here.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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I find it odd the sign reads ‘Pres Barack Obama Pky’. Most roads I’ve seen named after people don’t include a title.
If any of you are from Orlando, could you let me know if the streets named after Jefferson and Washington also feature the title ‘Pres’.
Now we’re talking.
One would think that after Alinsky Way, it would turn into Rahm Alley, which is up the ol’ dirt road.
I love the little comment about 200 jobs being created. Yes, and how many jobs lost to the private sector to fund those 200 jobs?
How many of those jobs went to illegals in the construction biz?
It’s a one-way street leading into a dead-end.
If there’s one silver lining to this, it’s that the road was built in the US and not somewhere else.
To find it go to Acorn Drive and hang a left.
Is it the yellow brick road leading to the all-knowing, all-powerful Barrack Obama…I mean Wizard of Oz? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
It’s near Cypress Creek Country Club, so I’m sure he’ll be driving on it soon.
If you drive near Lake Champlain in Vermont, you will see the Patrick Leahy Center. Leahy is the obnoxioius, selfabsorbed career politician who never worked for a day in the private sector. He earmarks for an unnecessary and unwanted government pork barrel project and has it named after himself.
This story is now on HotAir. Comments are just starting to come in, but there are already some good ones.
On June 21st, 2010 at 3:47 pm, BadIdeaGuy said:
I wonder how many U.S. Tax Dollars have found their way to the
Senator Barack Obama School in Kogelo, Kenya?
On June 20th, 2010 at 12:54 am, dadinseattle said:
Yep. More government jobs paid for with the other people’s money that we are rapidly running out of. If government jobs are so great for this country then why doesn’t everyone working in the private sector just quit their job tomorrow and get themselves a government job? We could have 0% unemployment by next week.
Errah; now get Disney to develop a town called Socialism since they already have the road to it.