Montrose - Daily Press

  On Wednesday, August 5th it was announced locally that the President would be coming here. There are many groups here that are against his healthcare and huge spending so those groups began talking and deciding on what they were going to do. The White House would not release ANY details other than the date.

 

On about Tuesday Bill found out that they would be holding the "Town Hall" at the airport. (This is only because Bill knows EVERYONE at the airport) Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade (tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely located hangar. You could not pick a more remote location, and you can not get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public.

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 FYI: We have many areas in Belgrade and Bozeman which could have held a large amount of folks with sufficient parking.

 (gymnasiums/auditoriums). All of which have chairs and tables, and would not have to be SHIPPED IN!! $$$$$

 

During the week, cargo by the TONS was being shipped in constantly.  Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our President coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession.  $$$$$

 

Late Tuesday/early Wednesday the 12th,  they said that tickets

 would be handed out on Thursday 9am at two locations and the president would be arriving around 12:30 Friday.

 

Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out. However, 1500 were printed at a Local printing shop per White House request  Hmmmm......900 tickets just DISAPPEARED.

 

This same morning someone called into the radio from the local UPS branch and said that THOUSANDS of Dollars of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation!!!  And it would have been really wonderful to help out the local economy.   Anyone heard of the Recession?? Just think...with all of the traveling the White House is doing. $$$$$ One can only imagine what else we are paying for.

 

On Friday Bill and I got out to the airport about 10:45am. The

groups that wanted to protest Obama's spending and healthcare had gotten a  permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be.

 

A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal) and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man but they said they did not have the manpower to remove the SEIU crowd.

 

The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30 and they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY made signs. Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and Planned Parenthood folks were with them.....professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs.  (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area)

 

Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man.

 

So we had Montana folks from ALL OVER the state with their homemade signs and their DOGS with homemade signs. We had cowboys, nurses, doctors you name it. There was even a guy from Texas who had been driving through. He found out about the occasion, went to the store, made a sign, and came to protest.

 

If you are wondering about the press.....Well, all of the major

networks were over by that remote hangar I mentioned. They were conveniently parked on the other side of the buildings FAR away.None of these crowds were even visible to them. I have my doubts that they knew anything about the crowds.

 

We did have some local news media around us from this state and Idaho. Speaking of the local media...they were invited. However, all questions were to be turned into the White House in advance of the event. Wouldn't want anyone to have to think off the top of their head.

 

It was very obvious that it was meant to be totally controlled by

the White House. Everything was orchestrated down to the last detail to make it appear that Montana is just crazy for Obama and government healthcare. Even those people that talked about their insurance woes........the White House called our local HRDC (Human Resource and Development Committee) and asked for names. Then the White House asked those folks to come. Smoke and mirrors...EVERYTHING was staged!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White

House. The amount of control and manipulation was nbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I  was physically nauseous. Bill and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country. America needs your prayers and your voices.

 

If you care about our country please get involved. Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!! If they are willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY a small town one can only imagine  what is going on in Washington DC. Scary!!

 

 

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To Reality Knocking wrote on Sep 1, 2009 9:02 PM:

" I agree completely, but I was responding to those who think the concept of this administration making this event favorable to their cause is unfathomable. It is the same as EVERY administration. The letter does have some incorrect issues but multiple points are correct as witnessed first hand. No need to knock on an open door. "




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Fake Poster wrote on Sep 1, 2009 7:19 PM:

" To...to Fake Poster...below are just a few sites that have this same fake post you insist is real and written by you just for Montrose since "You know live here"...bsimmons.worldpress.com, righthooks.blogspot.com, abovetopsecret.com/forum...I could go on but I'll just let you in on a secret...google exposes chain shams like your trying to perpetuate. "




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Fake Poster wrote on Sep 1, 2009 7:12 PM:

" To...to fake poster...one last thing...if the letter reflects what you saw and know ...why is it the almost exact same letter is on many newspaper blogs across the country! ALMOST WORD FOR WORD! Just stop now before you embarass yourself any more. You can call me all the names you want including illiterate but I can assure you I'm literate enough to see that your post here is almost exactly the same as on other newspaper blogs across the country. "




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Reality Knocking wrote on Sep 1, 2009 12:15 PM:

" Montrose Resident Moved to Helena,

ALL political events are staged and at EVERY political event the majority of tickets go to supporters.

Is that someone knocking? Yes, it's REALITY! Please, Montrose Resident Moved to Helena, please let it in and visit with it awhile! "




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So True wrote on Sep 1, 2009 10:08 AM:

" Please do some investigation before blindly believing everything you read.

To read how Snopes believes it should deceive its mindless readers please go to the jemreport.com and view the article below.

When the Debunkers Print Bunk.
thejemreport.com/content/view/235/1/ "




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To Fake Poster wrote on Aug 31, 2009 5:51 PM:

" You obviously are illiterate. Please have someone read my post to you (since you cant read it) and follow the trail of documentation. I am here and I saw it first hand. I know that snopes is the end all and be all, but the info I am giving came from the mouths of the individuals listed. Please follow up then repost. Also realize that I did not advocate either position as correct. I simply stated what happened. Thank you. "




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Fake Poster wrote on Aug 30, 2009 5:25 PM:

" To Montrose Resident Moved to Helena...You are a fake as is this post. Again go to snopes.com/politics/obama/montana.asp and you will see this is a fake chain email that has appeared in many papers slightly altered for the home town. This was caught earlier by JudyJ and its funny how this person who is caught tries to perpetuate the lie...I guess it's easy to do online when no one can see you. "




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concerned res wrote on Aug 30, 2009 6:16 AM:

" Ms. JudyJ, I didn't vote for Obama but supported his effort at the very beginning. So don't tell me to open my mind. He is nothing like he said he would be during his campaign. He has appointed extremist crooks to surround himself with. "Birds of a feather flock together". Why is it that all of the O supporters aren't bothered by a debt that we can't even pay the interest on. "




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Montrose Resident Moved to Helena wrote on Aug 29, 2009 5:39 PM:

" To those who keep spouting off about doing some research and check facts. Please check my post. It clearly gives fact checking references. Interesting enough, the democrat senator who gave out the tickets ADMITTED it. He is not denying what the administration is trying to do. That is why he is trying to develop a bipartisan approach. Please read the posts thuroughly before making claims of lack of fact or research. "




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JudyJ wrote on Aug 29, 2009 5:36 PM:

" Oh, Concerned Res, you astound me. Why are you so compulsively focused upon what you call a "regime" trying to run your life (your memory is so short)? Figments of your overactive imagination? OUR side, nevertheless, cares about YOUR well-being (although I don't know why we should). We won -- get over it. Open your mind a bit . . . "




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concerned res wrote on Aug 29, 2009 6:26 AM:

" Ms. JudyJ seems to be an extremely insightful person that I'm sure has something to contribute other than her self-righteous opinion of other bloggers" opinions. This country is clearly a divided country on their political beliefs. Only time will tell who is right or wrong. It is my opinon that government wants total control of our lives and that once this regimes plan is implemented that the majority of America will hate it. "




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JudyJ wrote on Aug 28, 2009 7:21 PM:

" I SO wish most of you would -- at the very least -- stop and ponder what you think you want to say before you run off at the mouth, spouting what you've read online or heard on 1100AM radio. Do some freakin' research, will you? Stop the rhetoric. Stop drinkin' the Koolaid. Analyze it before you feel the need to yap, yap, yap. Freedom of speech is our right, but think first! Please! "




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So True wrote on Aug 28, 2009 11:50 AM:

" "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have".

Thomas Jefferson "




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anti pc wrote on Aug 28, 2009 8:42 AM:

" Where were you all when the Radical Left compared President Bush to Hitler? I seem to believe that there was a lot of silence going on. Kinda hypocritical don't you think? I for one condemned it then and still condemn it now no matter who the President is. "




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Baa Baa wrote on Aug 27, 2009 2:49 PM:

" What, are you stuck in the 60's and 70's Russia and China are hardly Communist states. Not based on racism, look at the states Obama lost, most of the old Confederacy and sparsely populated states that are mostly white, Missouri being the exception which Obama lost by a whisker. Most of the people who still believe Obama is a Kenyan are from those very same states. "




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tdawg wrote on Aug 27, 2009 12:15 PM:

" The public option is just like public school. If your kids go there you can't complain. Or if you do pull them out. Our hypocrisy knows no bounds. "




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Montrose Resident Moved to Helena wrote on Aug 27, 2009 11:08 AM:

" I amnew to Montana via Montrose last month. The tickets were advertised as raffle/lottery (Helenair.com to confirm). A site to put your name in the lottery would be confirmed at a laterdate. Instead, the tickets were announced at the last minute to be picked up at obscure sites in Bozeman. There were only 600 by admission of those handing them out. The other 900 were given tothe local politicians for supporters (Confirmedby SenBachas). While some good questions came out, it was a staged event as admitted by BOTH sides ofthe local debate. Very disappointing. "




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JudyJ wrote on Aug 26, 2009 6:53 PM:

" This is a faux letter, email circulated, not one sent specifically to the Daily Press, folks. Go to Snopes.com/politics/obama/montana.asp for debunking of practically everything it alleges. I wish our newspaper would stop stoking the fires of fanaticism by publishing these fabrications. Check it out, people -- before you react. "




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concerned res wrote on Aug 26, 2009 6:16 PM:

" It absolutely amazes me how so many people want the government to control so much of their life. Wake up people!!! Why don't you people see this administration for the hypocritical bunch of communists that they are. They will tax this country into oblivion.
If you are an illegal alien, or a lazy dirtbag who just doesn't want to work,, or a union worker(reminder:unions make it so that the U.S.A. cannot compete internationally) I can see why you would like this admin, but the rest of you hard working Americans have just lost your minds. "




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concerned res wrote on Aug 26, 2009 6:02 PM:

" To all of you liberal sheep,
If it's communism you seek, than why don't you move to Russia or China. And for those of you that think that racism is the root cause for the dislike of this President, shame on you!. I was actually thinking that maybe this President might bring honesty and integrity to the white house. Instead, he has become the epitome of corrupt politicians. "




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scary wrote on Aug 26, 2009 3:41 PM:

" What is truly scary is the certain element comparing the President of the United States to the iconic symbol of hate, Hitler, a person who is responsible for the murder of millions of innocent human beings- this nothing more than right wing bluster who don't get it, you lost the election, get over it. "




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take a good look wrote on Aug 26, 2009 3:04 PM:

" the majority of Americans are not racists but the majority of the noisy obama haters are and use the political buzz words socialist and marxist to stealth what is really the problem and that is they can't accept a black president no matter what he does or doesn't do. stop denying it you Glen Beck crazies. You are inciting another national tragedy with this political perversion. "




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Just Sayin wrote on Aug 26, 2009 11:29 AM:

" The root cause of the dislike of Obama is his leftwing/socialist/marxist/progressive views. Only the ignorant would assume that someone who won the election with a majority of the white vote is disliked because of his race. We don't want his policies, or those of Bill Ayers, Van Jones, Saul Alinsky, etc. We don't want the takeover of the banks, financial institutions, auto companies, or health care. That is what the National Socialist
Party run by Hitler did in Germany. "




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CD wrote on Aug 26, 2009 11:15 AM:

" Obama is very Hitler-like. This is scary! "




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Jan wrote on Aug 26, 2009 11:06 AM:

" There isn't a "hate Obama" crowd but there is a crowd that is very concerned about the direction he is taking us down.
America needs to fall on their knees and pray, turn back to God and His Word, then we have hope. Without God we are doomed! "




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delusions of grandeur wrote on Aug 26, 2009 5:59 AM:

" yes this is the ussr and obama is hitler or maybe stalin. this is getting to be beyond ludacris go hide under the bed will you and stop spewing this bs. maybe u want to go back to the good old days of segregation or genocide against the people who preceded us. we all know what the root cause of the hate obama crowd is don't we? "




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