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A 9/11 Mother Gets No Response From Obama

By Bronwyn's Harbor on October 20, 2009 at 12:05 AM in Current Affairs

It is profoundly sad and incredibly infuriating that Obama’s White House does not have the decency to reply to this 72-year-old mother whose son died on September 11, 2001:

Melissa Long’s description of the White House meeting is truly depressing.

I don’t know what else to say.

  • obiewankenobe

    The words ‘Never forget” have not been uttered by President Obama nor will they ever be. His crowd believes America has been the terrorist nation and America is at fault for 9/11. The entire White House staff is forbidden to use the word “terrorism” to describe 9/11 or any act committed by Islamic fundamentalists. It is a sad day when an elder matriarch of an American family is treated this way by our Commander in Chief. God Bless America! And may we Never Forget!

    • elizabethrc

      I get the distinct feeling that the Obama administration is falling in on itself. How naive they were to think that they could fill their administration with any and all who were cut from their mould of socialist leaning, Chicago bullying, Constitution shredding left wingers, without the public catching on.
      Obama is incapable of feeling empathy because he has very few real emotions, other than feeling hurt that people may say ‘bad things’ about him, so it is no surprise to me that he doesn’t think of the victims, but thinks instead of what will gain him more power. Sure, he smiles a great smile and can chew the fat with the best of them, but in the end, what has he changed? What has he said? What has he accomplished that is good for the American people?
      To the mother of the 9/11 victim, don’t waste your time on this man. The rest of the country honors your child’s sacrifice and if you can just put up with 3 more years of having to see this man everywhere, every day, he’ll be taken down and you won’t need to have him as a painful reminder of his silence to you. 2010 and 2012 can’t come soon enough.

      • Amae

        You are corect. We are all waiting for new elections! We want all the socialist Chicago
        thugs out. We als want to change the make up
        ofth congres. It can not come fast enough for me.

      • Scout

        I agree with your assessment, except for this:

        He’s not hurt when people say bad things about him, he’s outraged. Then no matter how big or small the comment, he goes for the jugular. It’s a classic narcissistic pattern.

  • http://www.somosrepublicans.com DeeDee

    It is depressing.

    I’m not surprised to hear this. But hold on! At least Obama had a fast response (24 hours) when he signed that Mexico Policy.

    The Obama administration is going to make Dubya look like a creme puff. Dubya wasn’t so bad, was he when you put him right beside the “one”.

    • Peggy Sue

      No, let’s not get misty-eyed and stupid.

      GW was bad. Obama is bad. But please, two bads do not make a right, erase recent history or instill mass amnesia.

      GW will never look like a creme puff. He was as inept as the Obama Administration is proving to be. Only he was right of center rather than left. Revisionist history doesn’t help anyone!

      Please, get real.

  • SoCalDem

    Actually W doesn’t look bad at all, compared to that one.

    • Peggy Sue

      GW was bad on his own time. He didn’t need a comparison. Please! I’m no fan of Obama. But George W.? He was the worst President of my living memory. True, Obama is making a run for the gold ring.

      But GW? The longest eight years of my life. So far.

    • elizabethrc

      I have to agree, much as I don’t want to, that GWB at least worked to keep the country safe from terrorists. He wasn’t indecisive as this clown is and he didn’t lean toward favoring terrorist countries as Obama seems to.
      Was GWB a good president? No, but I’m not one to throw out the good with the bad.

    • http://noquarter foxyladi14

      almost looks good

  • trixta

    GWB still looks bad to me. He and BO are two sides of the same coin.

  • trist

    GW will ALWAYS be the worst of the 2, if for no other reason that it’s precisely because of what “W” did to us, that the country allowed the one to get in.

    • elizabethrc

      Will you still feel that about GWB when Obama has destroyed democracy and installed a dictatorship of some sort or another? That was never the goal of Bush.

  • terminu

    Estimates are Barack Obama has freed 3,400 terrorists (the bulk were 3,000 Iraqi captives which he set free without consulting the Iraqi government, who went on to kill more), he freed Iranian terrorists and top Qud terrorists responsible for IED killing of hundreds of US soldiers, he freed Guantanamo terrorists putting some up at $1mill a head in Palau and Bermuda.

    Obama has funded terrorists, giving $900 Million to Hamas and recently $2.5 million to Khadaffi.

    http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Widow-Dies-In-Plane-Crash/2885198
    Beveryly Eckert had planned on being very vocal about 9-11 justice and had met with Obama, not on pleasant terms. She then died in a plane crash.

    Obama has never shown the slightest degree of compassion or empathy or humanity, because he’s a sociopath/narcissist. He REALLY does feel newborns born alive after botched late term abortions should be left to die, he voted for that 4 times. He REALLY does feel Special Olympians are a joke (ironic that he received a Special Olympics version of the Nobel).

  • terminu

    Where did my post go to?

  • MrMike

    George W. Bush only got away with what the public allowed him. True he was aided and abetted by an in the tank print and broadcast media but the information was out there from the likes of Molly Ivins for those that cared about the truth as opposed to sound bites.
    In 2008 that same media switched its allegiance to Obama and new we are stuck with him.
    As this depression worsens and more lose their jobs and eat into their savings, they’ll start to pay attention to Washington’s shenanigans.

  • glennmcgahee

    Bush was and is the problem. His Presidency set the bar so low people would’ve elected a hamburger and thought it was an improvement. Thats the pathetic part. Its the folks that re-elected Bush in 2004 that elected Obama in 2008. Dumb.

  • Diana L. C.

    This is another pathetic example of what was descibed in the post below about Ann Dunn. Obama’s administration controlling the media. He doesn’t respond; he controlls. Get frustrated all you want, he’ll figure out a way to convince the gullible public he cares, when HE decides.

  • Sassy

    It would seem to be politically savvy to remove the 9/11 attack from our collective memories.
    Hope and Change are in charge now. Once they conclude the surrender in Afghanistan, the reason for going there will fade into the past.
    Not for those who value freedom enough to fight for it, but for those who do no more than demand their due!

  • mountainaires

    What do they care about a poor mother of modest means, who lost a son on 9/11? Nothing. They’re mixing it up at music parties every night at the White House with the rich and famous.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEfUAdYWG5Ysa7CDcGMLMuIZ2xdwD9BEJCEO4

    And then, there’s this:

    First Ladies do have assistants. Laura Bush had one; Hillary Clinton had three; Jackie Kennedy had one. Michelle Obama has twenty-two.

    Recession, Depression, What Michelle Worry?
    First Lady requires more than twenty attendants

    By Dr. Paul L. Williams

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652

    “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, “ Michelle Obama

    No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.

    How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:

    $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
    $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
    $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $90,000 – Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
    Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
    $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
    Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
    $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
    $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
    Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
    Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

    • Scout

      Wow, for a first lady who’s job is “mom in chief,” she has 4 assistants to handle her schedule and travel.

      I’m a “doctor mom” and somehow I manage to see twenty five patients a day and still keep track of my family’s activities, get everyone fed and walked and bathed and loved, and keep the house clean. Go figure.

    • Diana L. C.

      I wonder how many of these people are friends from Chicago who paid to play. Just asking. I don’t know, but this is an incredible amount of tax money going for she who does nothing for us as far as I can tell.

      Totally disgusted. I must go vomit. Excuse me.

    • http://firefox Martha Washington Collier

      I believe this goes to her lack of competence in any of the above categories. As the Affirmative Action, Hip-Hop-Pop Faux Presidential couple, they need a lot of cover from Czars,Directors, assistants, etc. Even then their Chi-Town idiots can’t seem to figure out protocol or what’s appropriate. Low culture, vulgar woman.

  • Elle

    No hesitation for our president to fly over to Coppenhagen to snatch up the “Limelight of having the Olympics in Chicago.Yet he shows no backbone or urgency to bring 911 justice.

    • http://noquarter foxyladi14

      that may be his Waterloo

  • http://firefox Martha Washington Collier

    I’m in Spam…please release me, let me go.

  • susan h

    When will everyone wake up and get it: Obama doesn’t care about Americans, about our suffering – he said himself, “if anything happens, I will side with the muslims”. He is likely foreign born, was schooled in Indonesia, was mentored by anti-american, anti-white, anti-semitic individuals like Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Rashad Khalidi, domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers. These are no coincidences.

  • http://www.BlandyLand.com Daniel Bland

    Want to wake up American’s to the truth of 9/11? Here’s how……

    http://blandyland.com/?p=388

    Make it go viral! Thanks!

    Daniel Bland