The Seattle press establishment and liberals from Greenwood to the Green River are just giddy over the announcement that Barack Obama is coming to down Feb. 17 for what is being described as an “official event.”
Translation: He’s coming for money to fill his campaign war chest.
Obama is planning an official event Feb. 17, a White House official said Wednesday.
No details were provided, but the president is likely to continue pushing the economic proposals outlined in this week's State of the Union address, such as incentives for U.S. manufacturers and small businesses, raising taxes on millionaires, and continued federal investment in clean-energy projects.—Seattle Times
If there is a press conference, that would be a proper opportunity to ask about Operation Fast and Furious. It will have been 15 days after Attorney General Eric Holder’s scheduled testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It will have been more than one year after the mainstream press began paying attention to what a handful of on-line journalists had been snooping into; a story that has now led to two Capitol Hill inquiries, an investigation by the Justice Department’s Inspector General, the resignation of the U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, the reassignment of officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ office in Phoenix, and some sizzling hearings before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
The news is not going over all that well with readers of the Seattle Times’ on-line story. Evidently, Northwest conservatives read more than the liberals, because they’ve been posting comments since last evening, and early this morning. Perhaps the most brutal came from a Bellevue reader:
I for one am sick of Presidents coming here, screwing up our traffic and forcing us to pay millions of dollars for the "honor" of their visit when all they're doing is raising money for their re-election. Clinton, Bush, Obama: all of them can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
Where's the federal disaster aid for the storm last week? Where's the indication the federal government gives a damn about us as more than surplus tax revenue (because we send more to DC than we get).
I would be happy to never have another US president visit here again. They don't do a damn thing for us and just suck ever more money.—Julian Arancia, Bellevue
Outside of the greater Seattle-Tacoma-Everett area, the president might not get such a warm welcome as he did in Phoenix Wednesday. He might have a hard sell for his economic programs up in Pend Oreille or Ferry counties, where unemployment is above 10 percent. In Grays Harbor, the unemployment rate is above 12 percent. Some of the ranchers and farmers down along the Snake River breaks probably have a few thoughts they could share that would make yesterday’s tarmac chat between the president and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer appear trivial by comparison.
But he would have the hardest time with Northwest gun owners and Second Amendment activists were he to stick around a few days and visit the Washington Arms Collectors’ monthly gun show at the Evergreen Fairgrounds in Monroe, or drop back a week later for the bigger confab down at the Puyallup Fairgrounds.
Someone in either crowd just might unceremoniously ask him about all those firearms that were illegally walked to Mexico with the knowledge of ATF and Justice Department officials who have since insisted they did nothing wrong, or were – as critics suggest – somewhat dishonest about it, or have, as did federal prosecutor Patrick Cunningham earlier this week, exercise their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent as this column reported.
Someone also might inquire who will be held accountable for the gun trafficking operation that raised alarms among Arizona gun dealers who subsequently were blamed for selling guns to shady individuals; guns later recovered at Mexican crime scenes.
The president is coming to Washington for campaign cash. There wouldn’t be much of that in Monroe or Montesano, Aberdeen or Almota. He might not even be offered a penny for his thoughts.
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