Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Obama Supporters Put Porta Potties on Police Memorial. What, No Military Memorials Around to Desecrate?

KPTV had the story first (here). During B-Ho's triumphal visit to Portland ("We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." ), his workers and supporters placed Porta Potties on the site of a fallen police officer memorial in downtown Portland.
Didn't they read the plaque or look at the flag that was at half staff? Here's a quarter, buy a clue!
By the way: no apology from the Barack Obama headquarters. Locals say they meant no disrespect.
The officer who spotted the desecration said, "There was plenty of room elsewhere so space wasn't an issue."
[He'd] been at the site five days earlier for an annual memorial service and a flag was still set at half [staff] on the day of the rally.

Posted by Victoria Taft, 11am - 3pm KPAM 860 at 16:15

27 comments:

  1. Just goes to show the lack of respect by Portland's left towards the Police. We already saw their lack towards the Military with the bonfire last year and dumping on the flag.

    I'm still waiting to hear if the group that warmed up the audience for BHO opened with their usual, The Anthem of the Soviet Union.
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  2. Yea ever since the Late 1960's the
    Communist Left has Hated the Police
    and look down on them and feel they
    must be controlled.

    PS: Lew, I think The Decemberists
    did play The Anthem of the Soviet Union.
    Yea I'm sure most of the Indy media Communists
    were there also. Probably thought they were
    at WOODSTOCK again.
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  3. klatu, I'm still trying to figure out where my country went while I was gone the 5 years I was.

    A real man, even though he didn't actually cause this, would accept responsibility and make a very Public announcement apologizing for such an egregious display of disrespect for a Memorial.

    All I hear so far are crickets.
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  4. Here's a Video of a recording of
    The National Anthem of the Soviet Union
    Playing before a Decemberist concert
    elsewhere. It would be interesting to find this out
    about Barack Obamas visit May 18 in Portland.

    PS: I wonder if Barack Appeasement Obama
    put his hand over his heart for
    the National Anthem of the Soviet Union
    Since he doesn't do it much here in America.

    PPS: Lew America was Transformed to a Socialist leaning Country between 1933-1945 and continued on from 1965 for a few years. I keep telling people those two periods of American History need to be Reversed. This crowd on May 18th
    and Obama just want to continue that Socialist Madness.
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  5. I like the Police.

    Maybe they just failed to pay attention, and were oblivious.

    But read into it what you want, to back up your own bias.
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  6. I'm told the Decemberists did NOT play the Soviet National Anthem (the Russian National Anthem) at their concert before the B-Ho concert. Someone sent me their playlist and I checked the lyrics of the first few songs. There was nothing particularly weird about them--except that they played a B-Ho concert WITHOUT playing the commie theme song.
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  7. Eileen: It doesn't surprise me that you like the Police.
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  9. Maybe they just failed to pay attention, and were oblivious.

    But read into it what you want, to back up your own bias.

    Eileen, can you buy that staffers responsible for setting up a major campiagn rally are that "oblivious?" No, I don't think it was deliberately done to slight the Police, just a sign of no respect, especially considering the lack of apology afterwards when it is brought to their attention.

    Any little perceived slight of Obama elicits immediate demands for resignations, apologies and you name it. Where is their consideration?

    As for bias, doesn't that swing both ways? Minimizing this obvious disrespectful act indicates what to you?
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  10. "Maybe they just failed to pay attention, and were oblivious"

    Actually.. One officer did notice it.. But apparently now one cared

    But you have to wonder.. Do political campaigns ever consider what they do when organizing ralleys like this?
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  11. Listening to the news on a station just now.. the Obama campaign has stated that they meant no dis-respect or intented too in the first place.

    Its a public statement.. and I would honestly say.. its good enough to me.
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  12. Kitanis: So you believe the Spin (News) from that Liberal Station.
    I long ago Stopped beleiving anything from Portland TV Stations, even the WEATHER.
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  13. Isn't it funny how "public statements" from the right are never "good enough?"
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  14. Fitting place for them. They should have emptied them out there too.

    But seriously, I think the city has more to do with this than the Obama Campaign.
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  15. "Kitanis: So you believe the Spin (News) from that Liberal Station.
    I long ago Stopped beleiving anything from Portland TV Stations, even the WEATHER."

    Hmmm it was a news short from KXL 750 AM before i turned the station back to KPAM this morning.. but Ok..what ever makes you think I was listening to a Liberal station...

    I do occasionally turn the dial to 620 KPOJ to get the talking points of my liberal co-workers before they come to work.. so I can understand where they pull statements out of their ass...
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  16. Still no apology from Obama camp.
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  17. Uh... to clarify for you once again Victoria, Everyone knows the Obama campaign doesn't decide where to place restrooms in Portland. Its the city of Portland that does that. Take it up with the city if you have a problem with it.
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  18. Fair enough, jonny and Eileen, in regards to both of your comments. But when reading into something, context is a use tool. The context is that the left wing, which is the side of the spectrum that Obama resides in, has historically expressed contempt and suspicion of law enforcement; thus, it's not an unreasonable leap from "contempt for police" to "careless disrespect for police memorial".

    As to the city, well, there's a really really long history of both the city government and segments of the city's population going out of their way to bash on the police or deny them any support so I feel no need to justify my reading of the porta-potty placement as deliberate.
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  19. Just for fun, Keith, when has Obama "historically expressed contempt and suspicion of law enforcement"?

    Not that thats a bad thing...
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  20. (and to clarify, I am in Total favor of law enforcement by police officers. I am not in favor of cops who lie and cheat and do illegal things) But my question still stands for you Keith.
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  21. Take a moment and read carefully, jonny. Notice that I saw that Obama belongs to the side of the spectrum that holds those beliefs. Notice, also, that I didn't say he personally held those beliefs. You're asking me to explain a position I did not take and thus, your question is invalid.
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  22. Notice that I saw that Obama belongs to the side of the spectrum that holds those beliefs.

    And you're wrong by saying this. Comtempt for law enforcement is neither liberal nor conservative. And the wisdom to understand the importance of oversight when it comes to authority figures is neither liberal nor conservative. Believing that law enforcement is always right and shouldn't be questioned is NOT a conservative belief. It's an authoritarian belief.
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  23. No, contempt for law enforcement is distinctly liberal. Sorry but that's where the contempt comes from, much as you probably hate to hear it.

    As to oversight, when oversight becomes "the person other than the police is always right", it's not oversight anymore.
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  24. Keith, cop groups are themselves notoriously what you consider "liberal". For example, you will never find a group that is more for gun control on citizens.
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  25. Likewise, you'll never find a group more opposed to gun control than cops.
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  26. The Navy chopped up and trampled on the Japanese internment memorial garden in Waterfront Park to stage a security zone and a tour entrance for its Rose Festival ships.

    Has there been an apology? No coverage here. Selective outrage??
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  27. Selective coverage. Extremely selective coverage. In fact, so selective that a single blogger on the internet claims that his readers noticed it. Strangely, I can't find any substatiation. Amazing, isn't it? The only pictorial evidence presented is a chain-link fence behind one of the stones that make up the garden. Since there's no way to know when the photo was taken or whether that fence was from the Navy or from a construction company working nearby, it's not very good evidence.
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