Obama to Create White House Office of Urban Policy

Spoken like a true Chicago person! This type of BS is why the other half of Illinois wants to be it’s own state! Everything possible for the cities and iiifffffff there is anything left over maybe the rural parts will get something. No wonder it was just the cities that elected him, he doesn’t give a rats behind about the rest of the country.

Whiners will continue to whine.
POTUS OBAMA will continue to win.
Don’t you cynics get tired of eating “Blackened Crow”? Hee Hee
POTUS OBAMA = Whiner Smasher

Al part of Obama’s communitarian policy.

Finally, a President for everyone.
POTUS OBAMA – A Beautiful Thing
Posted by: Denmark Vessey | Nov 12, 2008 9:21:16 AM
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A president for everyone? You mean EVERYONE lives in the city???? Or do you just mean that only the important people live in the cities? You can’t be president for everyone, if you only focus on urban areas, now can you!

Perhaps it is time the rural areas quit producing for and feeding the US cities. US rural areas should market only to foreign cities foreign governments and foreign concerns int he food distribution business.
The US cities of course would be free to buy the products back from overseas companies far more elevated prices then they pay to domestic and mostly Rural producers.

samhiguchi and geevil are the people that have made the same commentary and arguments that got us the last decade or so…
Obama needs to focus on energy…
energy revolution
energy revolution
energy revolution
all the “oil” morons
and the drill drill drill bologne
and the people who keep spouting bologne about Obama
need to take a look at the new announcement from the IEA…
we are in a world of hurt…
that is about to become a world of “####”…
Thank God Mccain did not get elected… and Thank God Bush is almost done…
the predictions from the IEA (and these include oil people) are BAAAD.
we need to switch our entire country AND be able to leverage China and India to do the same.
this is the crossroads and Obama better get on the energy innovation train TODAY…
priority one by a million miles… every sentence they should be talking about is “new energy sources”
especially for cities.

Urban power!

dl if O was so concerned about our economy and the world economy he would at a minimum attend the economic summit with the other world leaders…he was invited, but is choosing to stay in Chicago instead. He wants to get a jump start, but won’t attend something that will bring him insight at the least. As for oil and no drilling, I hope your home and your car are the first to run out while we are waiting for the alternatives (because it’s not like they are available to everyone right now)

Keep a close watch on how this ACORN grows into a giant kudzu vine.

sam – “he would at a minimum attend the economic summit with the other world leaders…he was invited, but is choosing to stay in Chicago instead. ” Perhaps he feels that as he is not President he should not be there. Maybe he sent someone instead.

A president for everyone? You mean EVERYONE lives in the city???? Or do you just mean that only the important people live in the cities? You can’t be president for everyone, if you only focus on urban areas, now can you!
Posted by: samhiguchi | Nov 12, 2008 9:42:58 AM
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What the heck are you talkin about? Urban population is his base, his support, his home. If our Greatest Leader does not take care of ‘em, who will? You got to give our Dearest Comrade some time to get to you lowly educated bitter people in the countryside. Power comes from the barrel of the gun, excuse me, from the popular candies of urban welfare.

Sam – give it rest, will you?

Well lets see for the past 8 years the Republicans have catered to the Gun toting bible Religious freaks, without big cities and their Business there would be no rual areas most of your people that live on welfare are found in the Rual areas,People that live in the cities pay higher taxes!

OT:
Congrats to Jake T. He has been promoted to the New Chief White House Correspondent for ABC. Thanks for the power, pop and probings. You have been a rare gem in the MSM’s unbelievably biased election coverage.

Obama did nothing for Chicago as a Community Organizer.
He did nothing for Chicago as an Illinois Senator.
He has done nothing for Chicago “The NEW Murder Capital” as a US Senator.
So, I doubt he will do anything meaningful as President. But, hey, he inspires hope and change. Well, hope… er… He inspires people to vote for him.

QWow; “Office of Urban Hand-outs!” Who didn’t see that coming???

I’d really like to see the statistics by population density, but here’s my gut feeling:
Crime – Big city problem.
Teen Pregnancy – Bigger rural problem.
Teen Suicide – Bigger rural problem.
Teen Addiction – Bigger rural problem.
Suicide in General – Bigger rural problem.
Poverty – Bigger rural problem
Availability of resources – Urban areas have more “help” resources.
In general, my gut feeling is that, by population density, rural areas have bigger problems than cities.
Any sociologists out there can verify??

I am a reluctant supporter of Obama, but this is what’s up. If this happens major accoomplishment. Go Obama

Perhaps because his Harvard Smart is so cool, he has a real distinction between Urban Policy and Urban Development.
Technically, policy belongs to lips, his big mouth, while development belongs to action, someone else’s problem.
I suppose our Greatest Leader is Smartest.

I do not know if any of these ideas are doable. I just want to bring up these points as possible solutions to strengthen our urban areas. The strength of our schools is part of the equation for a healthy community.
I remember reading once that the brain is most productive between too many external stimuli to that of not enough. Certain hormones and brain chemistry start to happen at both ends of the stimuli input spectrum. This is why if one is trying to sit still listening to a boring lecture, one basically stops listening. When someone is having a conflict with someone, this causes excess stress and the brain is not at its best. At both ends, problem solving, productivity, and creativity stops. We need to change the culture of long lectures and long times on the job and in the classroom.
We need to find creative ways for people to solve conflicts.
We need to begin programs of jobs sharing. For example, let us bring in people from the community to teach some classes within our schools. Bankers could teach money management to our students. Car repair personnel could teach basic car knowledge within our schools. Human resource people would teach how to find a job. This will break up the day for these workers. In return, they will be more productive on their private sector jobs when they return.
Based on the brain research, students’ class days should also be broken up. Perhaps the schools could have several field trips to private companies. There, they could learn about these companies and perhaps make contacts for future jobs.
Some people learn best by listening. Some people learn best by seeing things in writing or as diagrams.
Others learn best by tactile or by hand. A typical classroom requires the student to listen a lot. When it comes to teaching, we need to be aware of the learning styles of any person. Perhaps DVDs could include a lot of things in written or diagram forms. The DVDs could be handed out. A 3-d model could be handed out as well. These DVDs or models could complement any learning system.
Let us maybe begin a city/schools partnership to hire a few couples of successful counselors to teach conflict resolution to people of all ages. Are there conflicts between neighbors, neighbor’s kids, married couples, parents to kids or between students? These couple of counselors could step in to negotiate solutions to people. They could use appropriate DVDs to be handed out to help educate people.
The counselors could also hand out DVDs about resources available in the community on their particular problem. Could it be about finances between married couples? Could neighborhood kids be having a conflict? Could parents find better ways to raise their kids? Cities could partner with the private sector to produce these DVDs.
I am not sure if any or all these ideas are doable. I just wanted to get these ideas out there for community leaders to consider.

So HUD isn’t enough? Housing and Urban Development can’t handle this?
I’m beginning to suspect Obama is not going to be able to go line by line through the budget and find programs that don’t work. He’s already talking about growing the government.

Dear Sandra
I do not think President Bush had a thing to do with the mess in the urban core.

You know I saw this coming as anyone with ears should have. Handouts, and we all know Obama’s black voters are his target community. Yeah, his net will include some non-blacks but that has been his agenda all along. But you know what? I’m time for the black community to have reason to gloat, and hopefully reason to crawl out of poverty with a boost. If we are going to go down economically, we might as well go down at least making a good attempt to help those that if given a job, a decent place to live and hope for a future, maybe they will get out of the 40% of American’s who don’t pay taxes bracket. Maybe we will see a return on this investment. I’m not for handouts and I certainly will not benefit from his plan, but I’m just tired of hearing how ignored, down trodden, no opportunities, drug ridden and so on the black community is. Let’s give it a try. No, I did not vote for Obama, with 21 years of legal experience behind me I heard more than the average excited voter did to be part of a historic moment. I heard what he said and all I’m surprised about is how quickly he is putting his plans in motion. He’s a Socialist for sure, he told you all along and now he’s President. If the poor blow it, well it will truly be a historic moment because no one will support this type of program full heartedly again. One rule I do have as an American, short of him putting kids in uniforms and singing his praises every morning in Obama military school, I do believe in supporting the person this country voted to be their leader. I’ll support him until he starts ruling and not governing.

HUD is probably different than what this would be intended for. Urban centers have specific problems and solutions.
I’d like to see Akif Malik, the guy who had the Olympic bid vision for Chicago back in the early 90′s, get involved in something like this for Obama. Someone like him has the big picture understanding of transforming urban areas with solutions that have direct and indirect benefits.

Most urban areas are and have historically been run by Democrats, lock stock and barrel. Most are also broke and crime-ridden, as a result of those Democrat administrations with their failed policies and cronyism. Their situations have nothing to do with Republican policies or the Federal government except to be given more money to waste and send down a rat hole. So how is more of the same of that from Obama going to help? The Office of Urban Planning is nothing but Obama keeping his promise to Acorn to give them a policy setting role in the government, even though he lied and tried to minimize his relationship with that fraudulant, militant, Marxist organization all through the campaign. Are we suckers or what for electing this guy.

Perhaps, our Greatest Leader really has seen that HUD did not work so well. He will take a new approach, make it up side down, or front side back.
Let’s give it a try for his DUH.

You know this is really ironic. Have any of his people seen his district in Chicago? Has anyone ever read the Chicago newspapers? What about the money given to developers only to have the properties fall into disrepair, only to give the developers more money. This is how he knows Valerie Jarrett.
Also ironic is all the flack the Governor has taken about using his airplane. The Obamas took separate private airplanes to Washington, but arrived at the White House in the same limo to hide the fact? Michelle wanted to check out the private schools? Hmm. Wake up people.

It has been a week since the defeat and some of you GOPers arestill very bitter, clinging to your vile insults of President-Elect Obama.
When is this gonna end.
Please cling to your Bibles instaed and pray to the good Lord Almighty to help you “get over it”.
It is painful I know, but the sooner you get over it the better for your health.
Posted by: Steve_NJ
Steve,
As a typical liberal, you once again confuse the issues and have zero understanding of the real world.
The last thing this country needs is another federal department of anything. All this is amounts to is yet another hole the bucket of our tax dollars for yet another failed liberal social experiment. You & Obama had better figure out fast that the bucket is already empty and we can’t aford anymore dopry liberal ideas.

“How about some facts.”
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More evidence on how easy it is to only tell part of the story!
A. Obama is talking about “urban” not “metropolitan”!
B. From the same article :
“But the 1910 census was the last one in which rural Americans represented a majority of the population; these days, we’ve become a thoroughly metropolitan nation. Two-thirds of our population lives in the top 100 metropolitan areas, and 84 percent of Americans live in all 363 metros. Being in a metro means being tied to someplace else; the Census Bureau defines metropolitan areas as a city of 50,000 or more, plus the adjacent counties that have close social and economic ties to the urban core.”
Obama is not talking about this dopey department helping those adjacent counties! This thing is going to be another liberal earmark to eat money and produce no viable solutions, while it promises to make inner city & urban areas better.
We have been hearing this for decades, with no real results other than a lot of money wasted!

So much liberal wealth envy. Typical!

In addition to crime, I can see in the proposed Office of Urban Policy an oversight of all funds directed to solve city problems. Too much money goes to greedy administrators, fraud and corruption. Of course, that assumes the overseers are going to be honest.
Posted by: Shockolit
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Itis ging to be EXACTLY like the Dept. of Ed. Instead of its chief advocate being the NEA, it will be ACORN!
The dept of Ed has squandered trillions since its creation, and the result is the dumbing down of this great country!
This new Dept. will do for the inner cities what the Dept of Ed has done to our schools !

Wait, how was the department of homeland security any less dopey than this?

No, he did not inspire people to vote for him. It is that idiot George W. Bush pushed people to vote for him.
Posted by: Follower of Dearest Greatest Leader | Nov 12, 2008 11:20:51 AM
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Will get over your obama just like you liberals got over President George W Bush….NEVER.

Good government types are heralding these (anti-lobbying) steps (by President-elect Obama) — since they are unprecedented.
“The ethical guidelines released today for the Obama transition are tough and unequivocal.”
Thomas Mann, Brookings Institution
“This ethics policy is a statement about the tone and tenor of the Obama administration. It is a good sign.”
Norm Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
Posted by: pefros
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Are you kidding, EVERY new administration ALWAYS says they are going to be the most ehical in history!
Then they ALL have their share of embarassing idiots who have to resign in shame or face legal action.
There is absoultely ZERO new here!

RL in ILL
re: “Michelle wanted to check out the private schools? Hmm. Wake up people. ”
with all the nutty postings here and the
vile stuff being said about Obama around the country, I would be very cautious as well with where my kids went to school……

Perf,
I am stating historical FACT. I could care less what dopey organization thinks of any guidelines or rule set.
There has not been any form of human government that has not had ethical problems.
No one cares what some foolish crap is said today about how he picks the members of his administration. The only thing that counts is what these people do when they are in office!
If you are stupid enough to believe the “messiah” is going to only appoint the “purest of heart”, then you need to buy a lot of AIG stock!!!!

p.s. – are people perfect ethical creatures – oh course not – get real!

MikeC:
Those aren’t my opinions on the rules President-elect Obama put in place for his transition team.
Nor are they imaginings about some hypothetical future, nor a simple reporting of what somebody ‘says’ they are going to do – these are publicly stated rules Obama has put in place regarding lobbyists.
And the quotes are the studied assessments from two of America’s well-respected watchdog public policy institutes (Brookings Institute and American Enterprise Institute) – and as is stated these rules are “unprecedented”, “tough and unequivocal”.
Are people perfect ethical creatures – of course not! Get real!
Are these rules a major attempt to rein in the lobbyists who have been helping to run Washington – of course!
Tough, unequivocal and unprecedented . .. .

Maybe if we start paying attention to the inner cities and working on them the crime rates may go down. You have to break the cycle somehow to make any progress. Give these young adults a sense of pride and accomplishment, and you will see improved results.

That’s why we elected him,,, shut up.

It’s obvious Obama haters here hate Obama for something other than what he has done; since he has yet to take office and do anything to justify their hate. What couls it be???? Is it because he’s Black and racist just can stand the thought of a Black man being POTUS? They have absolutely no credibility to argue against Obama or his decisions as of now. Good grief, he hasn’t even taken office. These are the same people that gave unwavering support to Bush and republicans as they lied us into war, looted the treasury and mismanaged our resources. They need to shut up, sit back and observe how intelligent adults handle the nation’s business. Country First, Racist Last.