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Obama: No interest in border 'photo op'

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President Obama declared Wednesday he wasn't interested in a border trip “photo op,” saying such a visit was unnecessary to bolster his knowledge about the surge of unaccompanied children entering the U.S.“There's nothing that is taking place down there that I am not intimately aware of or briefed on,” Obama said in a hastily arranged speech in Dallas on Wednesday.
“This isn't theater. This is a problem,” he added. “I'm not interested in photo ops, I'm interested in solving a problem.”

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You people that voted for this man, read the bold part. Read it several times. The border is an unmitigated disaster, he's in Colorado shooting pool.

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This is the same man who early in his Presidency got photo ops from dead soldiers at Dover, who has no problem with photo ops pushing Obamacare and a sea of WH provided white lab coats as a backdrop. The man is a quintessential hypocrites hypocrite. He's nothing BUT a photo op - stupid statements like this from him is why he and his Presidency in my view, is venturing into negative credibility territory. He's becoming a living breathing joke about a farce.
 
That photo op would show that a great many of those children are not unaccompanied as we saw when they departed the busses/aircraft used to scatter them far and wide into the US interior at taxpayer expense. There seem to be plenty of "resources" available for that mission but none available to secure the border. These folks are not trying to sneak past our border security - they are seeking them out and "surrendering" to them as the final leg of their journey to the promised land.
 
Thanks for the humorous post. I needed a chuckle this morning.
 
You people that voted for this man, read the bold part. Read it several times. The border is an unmitigated disaster, he's in Colorado shooting pool.

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And Bush was in Arizona eating cake while Katrina was blowing up. There's been little good leadership in America.
 
Natural disaster vs man made. No contest. Obama is failing. He is dancing as Rome is burning.
 
If the President had gone to the border, GOPea brains would be playin the "photo-op" card .
 
Natural disaster vs man made. No contest. Obama is failing. He is dancing as Rome is burning.

Our southern border was open when Obama was born. Of the eight or ten presidencies during Obama's life, none of them have secured our border. Obama entered the WH with an unsecured border, he'll leave with an unsecured border, and the president that follows (d or r) will not secure the border either.
 
And Bush was in Arizona eating cake while Katrina was blowing up. There's been little good leadership in America.

C'mon, Monty. Five posts in and you bring up Bush. Bush had his problems, and yes, we could use some good leadership, but decrying the past does nothing to fix the current situation. The past can't be changed. There is also the difference between a natural disaster which can't be prevented and the border situation, which can be prevented.
 
If the President had gone to the border, GOPea brains would be playin the "photo-op" card .

Of course, that's the partisans way. Works both ways too.
 
C'mon, Monty. Five posts in and you bring up Bush. Bush had his problems, and yes, we could use some good leadership, but decrying the past does nothing to fix the current situation. The past can't be changed. There is also the difference between a natural disaster which can't be prevented and the border situation, which can be prevented.

I agree humbolt! But our border has been unsecured for DECADES! Btw, do you realize that big business isn't interested in secure borders and that both parties pander to big business.
 
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I am no fan of Obama but in this case he is right. As someone who has worked disaster areas of varying types I can attest that when high level VIPs come by it only slows the workers down and makes it difficult for them to do their jobs. And when the VIP is the POTUS it is a couple orders of magnitude worse.
 
A couple of things stood out as pure Obama yesterday in his statement in Dallas.

- He said Congress needs to learn to co-operate again like the old days by passing his legislation that he sent them. He didn't say work with him to make a mutually acceptable piece of legislation ... just passing what he sends them is being co-operative[/LIST].

- When he said what the 3 billion would be used for he said half would be used for increased border control and immigrant processing (I think it was) and the other half would be used for something or other. So what he did was lump border control funding with immigrant processing funding as half, while border control would actually only be around 5% to 10%.
Pure Obama wordplay.
 
I agree humbolt! But our border has been unsecured for DECADES!

Why do you think some of us have been screaming for DECADES? I could engineer the security of the southern border within a month. It wouldn't be pretty. Most of us have been hoping for something somewhat better.
 
Our southern border was open when Obama was born. Of the eight or ten presidencies during Obama's life, none of them have secured our border. Obama entered the WH with an unsecured border, he'll leave with an unsecured border, and the president that follows (d or r) will not secure the border either.
So, if other presidents did little to nothing. He is OK doing nothing. No matter that NOW the border is being breeched by the thousands. Good god.
 
I agree humbolt! But our border has been unsecured for DECADES! Btw, do you realize that big business isn't interested in secure borders and that both parties pander to big business.

Big business isn't responsible for securing our borders.
 
Why do you think some of us have been screaming for DECADES? I could engineer the security of the southern border within a month. It wouldn't be pretty. Most of us have been hoping for something somewhat better.

We agree again. If you acknowledge the border problem is systemic, a decades old problem and aren't finger pointing at Obama, you're interested in solutions not partisan politics!
 
I got a hundred a game against him. Any time he thinks he has what it takes.


If you don't play pool better than you talk politics, a child could clean your clock! :lamo
 
You people that voted for this man, read the bold part. Read it several times. The border is an unmitigated disaster, he's in Colorado shooting pool.

Perhaps hes meant that all those other things he does photo ops for ARENT problems, then?
 
Our southern border was open when Obama was born. Of the eight or ten presidencies during Obama's life, none of them have secured our border. Obama entered the WH with an unsecured border, he'll leave with an unsecured border, and the president that follows (d or r) will not secure the border either.

There are some cans a individual POTUS may kick down the road, let be the next fellow's problem. Quite a string of presidents has done just that with this issue. Every POTUS has at least one issue that hits them in such a way that the can is no longer kickable. This is one for Obama.

That said, if he fails to do his job, his party will suffer for it, and they/you, do not want that to happen.
 
And Bush was in Arizona eating cake while Katrina was blowing up. There's been little good leadership in America.

Bush went to Katrina when it became evident that it was becoming a humanitarian disaster, which happened not because of the malfeasance of the federal government but rather the city and state governments.
 
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