{"id":4073,"date":"2014-07-17T05:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2014-07-17T21:34:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T02:34:46","slug":"obamas-north-dakota-visit-where-did-he-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s North Dakota visit&#8230;where did he go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/07\/obama_standingrock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/07\/obama_standingrock.jpg\" alt=\"obama_standingrock\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/07\/obama_standingrock.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/07\/obama_standingrock-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/07\/obama_standingrock-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s interesting.\u00a0 A few Fridays ago, &#8220;the Preezy&#8221; came to North Dakota.\u00a0 In case you missed it, North Dakota at that time had <a title=\"ND Unemployment rate lowest for 65 consecutive months\" href=\"http:\/\/sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/north-dakota-unemployment\/\" target=\"_blank\">had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for 65 consecutive months at 2.6%<\/a>.\u00a0 We have prospering energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and even tourism sectors&#8230;examples of things going right.\u00a0 The President didn&#8217;t visit the Energy Corridor, any of our so-called Centers of Excellence, or an agricultural landmark such as a farm or co-op.\u00a0 So where did he go?<\/p>\n<p>The Community Organizer in Chief instead did what community organizers do best: <a title=\"Standing Rock unemployment is around 60 percent.\" href=\"http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/president-obama-visits-standing-rock\/article_c085ba14-f358-11e3-86b8-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">he went to a part of the state that admits 60 percent unemployment<\/a> and 40 percent poverty, speaking in broad platitudes and offering no solutions, then hopping back on his jet to head for a $32,000 per plate fundraiser in another state.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, life on &#8220;the rez&#8221; is a perfect example of what happens if you let the federal government intrude upon all aspectsof your life.\u00a0 This is the liberal Democrat utopia in full effect.\u00a0 Think I&#8217;m wrong?\u00a0 Look at other bastions of Democrat Party liberalism such as Detroit, which has deteriorated from a bustling metropolis and center of ingenuity &amp; industry into a scene from Sarajevo or Tikrit.<\/p>\n<p>The example doesn&#8217;t end there.\u00a0 In fact, the native peoples have had &#8220;single payer health care&#8221; provided by the federal government for a long, long time.\u00a0 You know what the credo is for people in the Indian Health Service system?\u00a0 <a title=\"Don't get sick after juno\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/entertainment-life\/don-t-get-sick-after-june-american-indians-say\/article_58f0e2d5-0efb-5ca8-acc1-44af08feb74c.html?mode=jqm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t get sick after June.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a> The money simply runs out, and treatment is unable to continue.\u00a0 Welcome to another Democrat utopia.\u00a0 Never has there been a more perfect microcosm to demonstrate where the United States will be if Hope\u2122 and Change\u2122 are allowed to reach fruition.\u00a0 Native people deserve more, the way they&#8217;ve been treated over the years is an embarrassment to our nation, and it&#8217;s sickening to use them as props.\u00a0 The scary thing is, instead of helping them, this president and his party want to expand their plight to the rest of the nation&#8230;&#8221;equally&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/07\/bistrib_obama_standingrock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4071\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/07\/bistrib_obama_standingrock.jpg\" alt=\"bistrib_obama_standingrock\" width=\"333\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/07\/bistrib_obama_standingrock.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/07\/bistrib_obama_standingrock-82x150.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/07\/bistrib_obama_standingrock-164x300.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a>By the way, Chase Iron Eyes dared to make a comment about he would have actually liked to have seen some &#8220;concrete plan&#8221; from the president&#8230;but he got nothing but platitudes and other community organizer rhetoric. You won&#8217;t see that comment on the Bismarck Tribune website anymore, because the article has been scrubbed from the Tribune website.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/pdf\/bistrib_obama_standingrock.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a PDF of the article before it disappeared.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, instead of visiting North Dakota&#8217;s &#8220;energy corridor&#8221; to see how land is mined then reclaimed, or how oil is recovered while flaring is reduced, or how North Dakota farmers are feeding the world, he instead went to a place where poverty and misery run rampant because of government policies and dependency upon myriad social programs&#8230;and did the one thing he does best: sowing discord while offering no solution.\u00a0 <strong>That is not leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No wonder more people were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxnet.com\/story\/25774578\/crowds-gather-to-see-air-force-one?clienttype=generic&amp;mobilecgbypass\" target=\"_blank\">excited about seeing the plane<\/a> than the president occupying it.\u00a0 Can you blame them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting.\u00a0 A few Fridays ago, &#8220;the Preezy&#8221; came to North Dakota.\u00a0 In case you missed it, North Dakota at that time had had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation for 65 consecutive months at 2.6%.\u00a0 We have prospering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}