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The massive traffic jam that resulted from President Obama's motorcade and speech Monday night in Hancock Park is prompting calls for an investigation from some residents, who say they were caught in traffic for hours.
Obama was only in L.A. for a few hours, but his presence caused numerous streets to be blocked off.
Residents reported that commutes and errands that typically took minutes turned into hours-long ordeals. One particular complaint was that streets remained blocked for hours -- even when Obama was inside TV producer John Wells' Hancock Park home at a fund-raiser.
$30,000 a plate is much more important than hours long traffic jams for the plain folk.
Sorry but this is not limited to Obama. It has always been a general practice to shut down streets whenever a President has been in a town - for whatever reason. As someone who grew up in DC and Baltimore, I've seen this happen numerous times, for Presidents of both parties.
Heck, in the last four years I have endured significant flight delays on three occasions (once in the terminal, once sitting on a plane at the gate waiting to leave, and once circling an airport) because all air traffic has been stopped for Air Force One to either take off or land - twice for Bush II and once for Obama.
Never mind the fact that Obama just finished another vacation and immediately hit the campaign trail criss-crossing the country all week. When, if ever, does this man ever work??
The responsibility for that colossal ****-up lies with the city and ultimately the LAPD, who demonstrated their usual finesse, planning skills and competence level - the Keystone Kops would have done a better job, and probably provided some entertainment along the way.
Getting a motorcade through a town is not the job of the Chief Executive - it's the job of the local authorities. And they dropped the ball, big-time. I was caught in that snafu - at one time, I was directed, with big hand movements and much uniformed authority, directly down a cul-de-sac.
Of course , the right-wingers had a field day with this: //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...al-choice.html - where the President had the NERVE to use a helicopter. (He did the last time he was in LA, much better choice.)
This comment from the OP's first link made me LMAO, he can run 1.5 miles less
today seeing that he ran too far yesterday!
Quote:
Carlos Garcia, a 25-year-old waiter from Miracle Mile, had the misfortune of setting out on a
run about the time the area went on lock-down. He had planned on a four-mile run, but it
turned into 5.5 miles as he tried unsuccessfully to get back home, ultimately waiting 25 minutes
at a yellow-police-tape barrier.
"They waved me through, but then they stopped me coming back," he said. "I can't believe
they did it during rush hour on a Monday."
Wow...who knew this President will set a trend by being the ONLY one in HISTORY to travel with a motorcade. And oh my LAWD he should have gotten out there and direct traffic, because all of Presidents have done this in the past. Oh and wow another trend being set by this man by supporting a candidate within his party.
Whew, the OP sure educated us on the things that NO past President has EVER done just in this ONE thread.
Never mind the fact that Obama just finished another vacation and immediately hit the campaign trail criss-crossing the country all week. When, if ever, does this man ever work??
http://search.aol.com/aol/search?q=bush+fundraiser+shuts+down+traffic&q=bush +fundraiser+shuts+down+traffic&s_it=keyword_rollov er&page=2&nt=SG2&oreq=f7112ecf683741e0beff56bc4d5a cd43&v_t=keyword_rollover (broken link)
What an arrogant piece of work.
$30,000 a plate is much more important than hours long traffic jams for the plain folk.
Hasn't the bottom of that barrel been scraped clean yet?
VA Refuses to Shut Down Highways for King George
The last time Bush came to Nashville, it cost tax-payers a small fortune. This is a poor state. Why do we have to pay for the pResident to come here to pick up money for his lousy party's political campaigns? This is a blue county, when Bushie comes here and we pay for it, Democrats are paying for Republican fundraisers. Let the friggin' Dark Side pay their own way.
Working for the people or just the dems as per usual.
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Oh, please.
