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Remember Velma Hart?

By Larry Johnson on November 22, 2010 at 9:09 PM in Current Affairs

Velma Hart spoke up a few months ago and confessed that she was exhausted with Barack Obama. Remember that nice, intelligent woman who asked Barack Obama if she had hot dogs and beans in her future? Well, the shoe has dropped. She has lost her damn job!

Washington Post has the story:

Nobody is safe.

Velma Hart, who burst onto the media scene after telling President Obama she was scared about her financial future, has been laid off. Hart was let go as the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a nonprofit Maryland-based veteran services organization.

Hart has become another casualty of the tough economy in which so many people have lost their jobs.

“It’s not anything she did,” said Jim King, the national executive director of Am Vets. “She got bit by the same snake that has bit a lot of people. It was a move to cut our bottom line. Most not-for-profits are seeing their money pinched.”

Remember, this woman lives in the Washington, DC area. This area has been relatively insulated from the economic problems facing America because there are so many government workers. All I can suggest is pray for Velma and her family. This is a tough day for them.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    While that’s a bummer, I have yet to see a CFO get the ax who didn’t have a lush severance and bonus package payout, even in non-profit. At least she’s in finance.

    That’s still better than (maybe, if you’re lucky) getting 2 weeks severance and an address to send your overpriced Cobra payment, due in 4 weeks, that you probably can’t afford anyway. With a little luck you might have some accumulated PTO, if your employer provides that at all. If you worked in manufacturing you’re pretty much screwed.

    That’s why I love finance and accounting.

  • carol haka, Matzo

    Good.  She deserves to have lost her job.  She voted for Obama.

    She is reeping the benefits of her ignorance!

    So, Cry me a River!  I’ve been fucked by her decision for 21 months.

    >:o

  • imustprotest

    Whoa!  A little harsh doncha think???  I mean I don’t like Obama but I wouldn’t wish unemployment on anyone, especially this woman…at least she had the courage to call him out and ask a tough question.  She’s better than most of the MSM.

  • Blue Moon

    Like we didn’t see this coming.  I knew the minute she stood up and made her statement she was (1) a plant for the administration (2) if not a plant and was the real thing then she just screwed herself out of a job.  

    This administation is all about payback for anyone who goes against them.  Imagine what would have happened if Richard Nixon did this—-OH WAIT, he did.

  • Jackie, It is only hard to understand if you are a total moron

    Velma and the other Obots should not have swallowed the koolaid in the first place.

  • Im a Dr Kracker 3 Seeded Linda too

    Sorry to hear that.  Good luck on your job search Velma.

    Maybe we can ask for the money we paid an imposter Taliban leader Obama discussed of reaching out to.

    Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor By DEXTER FILKINS and CARLOTTA GALL Published: November 22, 2010 var articleToolsShareData = {“url”:”http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/asia/23kabul.html”,”headline”:”Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor”,”description”:”American and Afghan officials say that a man purporting to be Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, a key figure in negotiations who was paid by the West, was faking.”,”keywords”:”Afghanistan War (2001- ),Taliban,North Atlantic Treaty Organization,Afghanistan”,”section”:”world”,”sub_section”:”asia”,”section_display”:”World”,”sub_section_display”:”Asia Pacific”,”byline”:”By <a href=”http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/dexter_filkins/index.html?inline=nyt-per” title=”More Articles by Dexter Filkins” class=”meta-per”>DEXTER FILKINS</a> and <a href=”http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/carlotta_gall/index.html?inline=nyt-per” title=”More Articles by Carlotta Gall” class=”meta-per”>CARLOTTA GALL</a>”,”pubdate”:”November 22, 2010″,”passkey”:null}; function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.url); } function getShareHeadline() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.headline); } function getShareDescription() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.description); } function getShareKeywords() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.keywords); } function getShareSection() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.section); } function getShareSubSection() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.sub_section); } function getShareSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.section_display); } function getShareSubSectionDisplay() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.sub_section_display); } function getShareByline() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.byline); } function getSharePubdate() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.pubdate); } function getSharePasskey() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareData.passkey); } z Permalink <img src=”http://graphics8.nytimes.com/adx/images/ADS/24/62/ad.246231/conviction_120x60.gif” border=”0″/>

    KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the repeated appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement.
    But now, it turns out, Mr. Mansour was apparently not Mr. Mansour at all. In an episode that could have been lifted from a spy novel, United States and Afghan officials now say the Afghan man was an impostor, and high-level discussions conducted with the assistance of NATO appear to have achieved little.
    “It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”
    American officials confirmed Monday that they had given up hope that the Afghan was Mr. Mansour, or even a member of the Taliban leadership.
     http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/asia/23kabul.html?_r=2

  • Im a Dr Kracker 3 Seeded Linda too

    Sorry to hear that. Good luck on your job search Velma.

    Maybe we can ask for the money we paid an imposter Taliban leader Obama discussed of reaching out to.

    Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor By DEXTER FILKINS and CARLOTTA GALL Published: November 22, 2010 

    KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the repeated appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement.
    But now, it turns out, Mr. Mansour was apparently not Mr. Mansour at all. In an episode that could have been lifted from a spy novel, United States and Afghan officials now say the Afghan man was an impostor, and high-level discussions conducted with the assistance of NATO appear to have achieved little.
    “It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the discussions. “And we gave him a lot of money.”
    American officials confirmed Monday that they had given up hope that the Afghan was Mr. Mansour, or even a member of the Taliban leadership.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/asia/23kabul.html?_r=2

  • Docelder

    Try to tell an Obot not to swallow… There is nothing like the school of hard knocks. Now, that degree still means something.

  • sybilll

    I’m with you on this one.  Our local charities are struggling.  AMVets does good work.  On the other hand, why does a CEO of a NON-profit get paid $200,000+, if they are so benevolent, and do it because of a higher calling? 
    For that matter, we could have a whole expose’ on so called non-profit, and not-for-profit organizations that are at best just avoiding taxes.  Let’s start with Media Matters, shall we? 

  • sybilll

    Or, any organization that contains the keyword “Progress”, for that matter. 

  • TeakWoodKite

    Velma, good luck finding a job down there in Bedrock….Merry frakin christmas…

    Please land on your feet and vote with your head next time.

  • ogee

    You mean to tell me she couldn’t see through this jive talker?

  • SeriouslySickOfObama

    What still amazes me is the fact he NEVER did answer her question.  Come to think of it, has he EVER answered a question?

  • EllenD

    I don’t know about fat severance bonuses but it is very unusual for a CFO to be laid off these days.Financial people are the only ones snowed under.
    They may be given extra duties, or have taken a pay cut, maybe, but someone needs to keep the records and do government reporting. And the government reporting has increased 10 times in this period. Every day I get a new audit request or government form sent to me.

  • JB in VA

    The only thing sad I see about all this is that she will probably vote for him again.  As will so many others — recent college grads, for example – who have been royally f*cked by this administration. If they could they’d probably vote him president for life. Idiots.

  • getfitnow

     Velma said:
    Hart told CNBC that she still supports Obama and noted that the economy is improving, though she finds the prospect of unemployment “scary.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/22/woman-who-told-obama-she-was-exhausted-loses-job/#ixzz166XUvfpZ*************************Sounds like her support for That One goes against her best interest. How much does race have to do with this?

  • creeper

    Something doesn’t smell right here.  I could understand laying off an accountant or two, but a CFO?  And one who just happened to embarrass the president?

    Reeks to high heaven.

  • creeper

    Excuse me?  She’s “exhausted from defending” Obama and has lost her job in his recession but she still supports him?

    What I wouldn’t give to know the real truth here.

  • getfitnow

    I’d like to know how CNBC found out.

  • elizabethrc

    At this point, seeing the disaster that is Obama as President, the only reason a black person would vote for him is for racist reasons.  Harsh, but true, with perhaps a few exceptions.
    People need to wake up and vote for competence, experience and awareness of what the world stage is all about.

  • Lady Cracker

    gee I bet Velma won’t be quite so POLITE next time she gets a chance to CHAT up the President!

    She might have spoke up but she didn’t SPEAK OUT!!  No one DARES!  Look how just asking a few WRONG questions gets ya……………..  HA like I believe there wasn’t more than CHANCE involved here! pfffffffft!

  • Jmm915

    Unless it is for cause.

  • carol haka, Matzo

    No, I’m not harsh.  She is a racist. 

    He sat there and giggled at her, and she still didn’t get that her loyalty to him has nothing to do with anything other than race.  Had Palin or McCain or any other white person mocked her so, we would never have heard the end of it.

    And, I bet Obama had something to do with her being fired.  She had the audacity to question him and embarrass the little king.

    Good.  One stupid racist added to the pile of losers.

    >:o

  • joanie in Brooklyn

    Carol Haka:  You’re so out of line!!! you don’t know this woman yet you seem to think you know her motivation in voting for Obama.  Could it be she believed he was the right man for the job?  You can say she drank the Kool Aid and I’ll give you that.  But it does no good to keep throwing around the “racist” “racism” accusations.

    Just because she’s Black doesn’t mean she voted for him because he’s Black.  I’m Black and I didn’t vote for him.  That doesn’t make me not a racist; although I like to think that I’m not.

  • guest

    From what I can piece together, she is a proponant of deficit spending willing to sacrifice for the “greater good” but concedes Obama “may or may not be on the right course.”

    http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/23/velma-hart-still-supports-pres

  • creeper

    So you didn’t vote for him.  But 94% of blacks did.  Do you see nothing racist there?

    carol haka has every right to be incensed.  She’s been out of work for almost two years.  Living hand-to-mouth makes people a bit testy, you know.

  • creeper

    ADMIN:

    We need either an Open Thread or one dedicated to North Korea’s attack on the south.  That’s the news today.

  • creeper

    I’m amazed at Hart’s reaction to her layoff.  Most people who are laid off describe the experience as “devastating”.  Pollyanna here sees it as an “opportunity”.  Something just does not compute.

  • Noogan

    I wonder if someone in the administration got to AMVETS, which is where she worked, so that they  deliberately punked her for publicly rebuking President Obama. I know they SAY she was laid off due to budget cuts, but she was the Chief Financial Officer at AMVETS, as I understand it. I just wonder; it’s just 2 months after her public criticism, and her comments must have really infuriated him, particularly since she was such a supporter and was a black middle class voter.

  • joanie in Brooklyn

    Creeper:  While 94% of Blacks may have voted for BHO, Carol Haka is talking about a particular individual, Velma Hart, it is a leap to say she voted for BHO because he’s Black when you have no way of knowing what her motivation was.  It’s one thing to generalize about a group but when it comes to particular individuals you can’t just throw accusations around without more to substantiate it.  The racism goes both ways, by the way.

  • HC123

    Yes, its bizarre that a black woman CFO would be fired by a not for profit. I would think she would be one of the last people out the door, shutting the lights off as she went.

    If shes dumb enough to still support the president shes clearly not a particularly bright person. A CFO should be able to see the writing on the wall. Quantitative Easing anyone?

  • Tricia

    How sad–the woman was a prophet.

  • HC123

    She may be one of the 3% of black voters who did not factor in race when approaching the polls. Maybe she just voted for him because of the D hanging after his name.

    I really dont care why, but many of my black friends simply will not say anything negative about the man. And you know what, I get it, he is “their guy”.

    What I dont get is the rest of the kool aid drinkers who cannot admit the error of their ways. Particularly the so called civil libertarians who follow along for more and more patriot act, keeping DADT, waffles on gay marriage, abortion above my pay grade etc etc etc. But I digress.

    The rest of Velma’s comments smack of delusion or hero worship, or maybe shes just not very smart. I dont know, is it racist to notice that someone who is black is also not smart? It seems to be these days.

    Maybe a job at the White House is in the works, or as a cog in the wheel of the ever growing bureaucracy that is DC.  Or social secretary #157 to Michelle O? Helping her dress like a grape to nag us all about our weight pays pretty well I hear.

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    I’ve been through several layoffs and the CFO (or any executive) was never among those to go. Middle managers and duplicate positions, but the CFO? Who’s minding the money drawer?

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    It’s one thing to generalize about a group but when it comes to particular individuals you can’t just throw accusations around without more to substantiate it.

    Oh, you mean like calling Bill Clinton a racist, broadcast throughout the mainstream media no less, because he said Obama’s life is “a fairy tale”.

    Spare us the lectures.

  • snosandy

    I still don’t get why people still call him black.  Simply because of his skin tone?  He is 50% white, was raised by his white mother and white grandparents after being abandoned by his black father.  I still think he’s a fraud pandering to the AA community. I’m just sad that he is using them.

  • BARBBF

    HELLO!!!!  This should give you a hint about the truthfulness of the situation:

    King would not say whether the organization had had other layoff

    Of course, I for one believe anything the WashPost writes and what Kings says….and I also believe that pigs can fly!

    ;)

  • creeper

    “The racism goes both ways, by the way.”

    I’ll grant you that.  Frankly, the more I see of the Obamas and their supporters the less respect I have for blacks in general.  That’s as brutally honest as I can be.

    Velma Hart described herself as “exhausted”, “deeply disappointed”, and worried that the hot dogs and beans they used to have to eat would become their “new reality” once more.

    Now she finds herself out of a job.  The fear she expressed has come true.  And yet she STILL supports Obama.  You tell me what, besides skin color, could possibly explain this.

  • getfitnow

    If no one had ever laid eyes on Obama before and knew nothing about his “narrative”, and he walked into a room, he would be seen as black; not white; not bi-racial.

  • getfitnow

    You mean, he may not be “The One” we’ve been waiting for? lol

  • getfitnow

    Looked what they did to Joe the Plumber.

    I hope Gov Jindal is watching his back.

  • getfitnow

    And what many don’t get is that it does go both ways. Just because someone is not part of the “white power structure” in this country doesn’t mean they are always the victim nor does it mean they aren’t capable of racism.

  • susiepuma-still a crazy cracker

    I’m with Carol on this – cry me a river – and call me racist – I could give a shit -

    He’s a thin-skinned stupid stupid pretender – can’t take any criticism ‘cuz he’s teh won – well only in his imagination and those blacks who still feel that he’s gonna pay their mortgages, buy their gas, etc. ………..lol

    how’s that hopey changey shit workin’ for ya now? 

    when’s the damm impeachment gonna start?  Jan 2011?????

  • joanie in Brooklyn

    Susiepuma, you are a crazy cracker, not big on reasoning skills either. But I won’t call you a racist.  You haven’t given me enough evidence.  Creeper, I don’t know why Velma still supports the guy; my sister has a theory that many women think he’s so cute. I can’t see it; he’s not my type. 

  • wodiej crackerdawg

    well she certainly has no reason to complain.  She voted for the fool on the hill who knows nothing about anything but community organizing and of course….how to hide all of his personal recrords.

  • wodiej crackerdawg

    well she certainly has no reason to complain.  She voted for the fool on the hill who knows nothing about anything but community organizing and of course….how to hide all of his personal records.

  • wodiej crackerdawg

    I have been out of work for 10 months and prospects are not falling out of the sky.  So excuse me for not feeling sorry for this person who voted for Obama and most likely has a nice severance package. 

  • carol haka, Matzo

    Yeah, or the Tea Party is racist.  Just heard it from Russel what’s his face – the music mogel.

    Dang, I can’t believe we still have to hear this shit!

    >:o

  • EllenD

    That would have to be some cause.
    I’ll tell you right now that no one can step in and take over my office. They wouldn’t have a clue how anything is done.
    I do the 401K, payroll, COBRA, and taxes. Yesterday I had to fix the thermostat and today I fixed the doorbell and handled E&O insurance and software upgrade quotes.
    Unless this was a crazy high-executive lady that outsourced everything to other companies and therefore made herself easily disposable, in which case she is not too bright.

  • JB in VA

    Second that, creeper.

    In 2007-08 I felt so sad that Obama was giving black people a bad name, and if elected would seriously set back black achievement and race relations generally. As a Southerner who had experienced desegregation first hand and did my own limited part to encourage it and make it a success, the whole situation with him really bothered me — that someone with zero understanding of or connection with the experience of most American blacks was taking over the entire stage. 

    Now, after so much evidence of his lack of competence in this area, too, and with black voters STILL giving him their full support, I’ve lost nearly all sympathy or concern about black poverty, the horrendous state of education in inner city and rural black schools, black imprisonment rates, or any of the pressing issues that so many blacks still face. The only thing that gets some measure of concern from me is the rampant, endemic misogyny in black culture.

    It is crystal clear that black voters supporting Obama, and black people taking responsibility for improving their and their children’s lives, are 2 mutually exclusive spheres — yet they continue to support him.  It’s beyond understanding that they are selling out themselves, their communities, and their own children (not to mention the entire country) for the sake of this arrogant, egotistical poseur. 

    Until a significant segment of the black population shows some glimmer of wisdom on this subject, I seriously can’t waste my time or energy caring about them. 

  • susiepuma-still a crazy cracker

    Sticks and stones – don’t think your skills are so great either – btw – what are they?

  • Retired

    Well, Velma, you voted for him and you got unemployment.  But you still support him?  Then, logically, you support your own unemployment.  Ask yourself: why?

    This situation reminds me somewhat of the Nazi SA troops who were stood up in front of SS firing squads over a deal that their idol, Adolph Hitler, made with the military to take over Germany.  The military said that the SA, also known as the “brown shirts,” had to go or they would not support Hitler.  So Hitler had the SA leadership shot.  Many of the SA leaders simply wouldn’t believe that Hitler would so thoroughly betray them after they had been so loyal and advanced the Nazi cause from nothing to a real power in Germany.  So, as they were stood up in front of firing squads, they executed a Nazi salute and shouted, “Heil Hitler!” as the SS men gunned them down.

    Heil Obama, Velma.  Heil Obama.

  • NAN

    HE STILL DOESN’T GET IT.   She was frustrated with his answers.  What  he’s been doing is for the future, NO ONE GIVES A RAT’S YOU KNOW WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE RIGHT NOW.  I/WE need to EAT NOW.  Watch how you spend your money, I’m not saying you shouldn’t buy a new pair of shoes now then…say what…THAT IS LIKE SAYING TO HIS STARVING SUBJECTS…SO EAT CAKE.   And mean while me and my wife WILL SPENDING YOUR MONEY and traveling the world…PLEASE PASS THE BUCKET I NEED TO BARF.

  • NAN

    Obama has NO BLACK ROOTS, his father is from Kenya, his mother was white…So, to me, he is completely out of reach when it comes to relating to the Black community. 

  • Noogan

    Nah, he’s black, because he likes JayZ and Beyonce, and he likes to make a big fuckin’ deal about his basketball picks every year. And, when he launches into his contemptuous jive talk during speeches, it’s red meat to his core constituency. He does it ON PURPOSE. It’s like code to establish his street cred.  :-D  

    It’s like nails on a blackboard to me. It’s so adolescent. 

  • FLDemFem

    Bill Clinton did not say Obama’s life was a fairy tale, he said his alleged anti-war stance, and speech, was a fairy tale. Just to be accurate. :)

  • FLDemFem

    Well, given his “core constituency” is a mere 12.6 % of the population, it may behoove him to change his tune. The rest of us, the 70%+, ie. white people, are getting tired of his racist song.

  • JOAN FLOWERS

    I have been on TWITTER under FLOWERSJOAN asking President Obama
    to put tombstone on my father’s grave & he will not respond!
    THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION OF THE WHITE HOUSE LIAISON DEPT
    “SUSAN” worked on my HUMAN RIGHTS CASE FOR 3 YEARS & OFFERED
    TO BURY MY DAD IN “ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY” OUT OF
    ‘RESPECT” TO A BLACK SOLDIER & PEOPLE “WALK ON HIS GRAVE” because
    I Wanted Him buried here in ILLINOIS WITH OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS!
    THIS MAN FOUGHT IN “EUROPE” & CAME BACK TO AMERICA & COULD NOT
    VOTE UNTIL 1964! 3 PROMISES WERE MADE TO ME THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
    “HONORED” I HAVE “PLEADED” WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA TO “HONOR’ MY FATHER & HE WILL NOT “SAY OR REPLY” TO MY TWEETS ON TWITTER TO HIM!
    MY FATHER FOUGHT IN WAR & DESERVES HIS NAME & TOMBSTONE ON HIS GRAVE!  On “VETERAN’S DAY” President Obama Said “NO SOLDIER” WILL BE LEFT BEHIND!  “I TWEET & HE WILL NOT RESPOND” MY FATHER MADE
    “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” & THE LIFE OF PEOPLE ON TWITTER POSSIBLE
    BECAUSE HW WAS WOUNDED IN GERMANY & HAD A FEVER HE KEPT ALL HIS LIFE UNTIL THE DAY HE DIED FROM “ALZHEIMERS”
    HE ALSO HAD A METAL PLATE IN HIS HEAD & HEADACHES ALL HIS LIFE!

    PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS “HONORED” PEOPLE FROM “ALL WALKS OF LIFE”
    “WHAT PROBLEM DOES HE HAVE “HONORING” “THEODORE LOVEJOY”
    A BLACK SOLDIER THAT “GAVE HIS ALL?”

    PLEASE “GO ON TWITTER & ASK PRESIDENT OBAMA WHY HE IS NOT
    RESPONDING TO “A BLACK WOMAN” ASKING HIM TO “HONOR” WHAT THE
    WHITE HOUSE “PROMISED” “OFFERED” ME BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT
    DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE DISCRIMINATION I HAD GONE THROUGH &
    WANTED TO “GIVE MY FATHER “RESPECT IN DEATH” THAT HE DID NOT
    GET IN “LIFE” FOR ‘KEEPING AMERICA & EUROPE SAFE”

    PLEASE ASK HIM WHY HE HAS IGNORED MY “PLEAS’ TO KEEP “THE PROMISE”
    “HIS WHITE HOUSE” MADE TO MY FATHER”

    “A WHITE HOUSE PROMISE/OFFER SHOULD BE KEPT NO MATTER WHAT
    PRESIDENT IS IN OFFICE”

    IT SHOULD NOT TAKE “ALL THESE YEARS TO ‘”DO RIGHT” BY A SOLDIER