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Good old Jug Ears in Camden, NJ.

Like many, initially I thought Barack Hussein Obama was merely supremely incompetent.

I’ve grown to believe that he’s devilishly smart.  It’s not incompetence, but an overarching strategy to bring America down in the world.  Obama doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism.  He sees America as a blight upon the world that needs “fixing”.

Frankly, it reminds me of the “Hunger Games” series of novels, with the central government operating in splendor and largess, while the rest of the nation struggles, and national government representatives tell the toiling masses how good they’ve got it.

Today, Barack Hussein Obama called Camden, New Jersey a “symbol of promise for the nation”.

Yeah, because most people think of the cesspool that is Camden, NJ when they think of the American ideal.  Why didn’t he give that speech in Detroit?

Photo via NBC News

Original caption: Two men talk on a rooftop near crumbling residential buildings in Camden, New Jersey, July 30, 2000, where later in the day welcoming ceremonies for the Republican National Convention will be held along the city's waterfront, the only redeveloped part of the city. Camden, a city of 82,000, has 3,500 vacant building,  school dropout rates as high as 60 percent, and a tax base that yields about $29 million for combined city and school expenses of $350 million. The Philadelphia skyline is visible in background.   REUTERS/Peter Morgan --- Image by © Reuters/CORBIS
Camden, a city of 82,000, has 3,500 vacant building, school dropout rates as high as 60 percent, and a tax base that yields about $29 million for combined city and school expenses of $350 million. The Philadelphia skyline is visible in background. REUTERS/Peter Morgan — Image by © Reuters/CORBIS
CAMDEN, NJ - AUGUST 20:  Officer Tom Rambone, of the Camden County Police Department (CCPD), goes on a foot patrol on August 20, 2013 in the East Camden neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey. The town of Camden, which was once a large industrial town but watched it's population dwindle as manufacturing left, has been marred with societal problems including high unemployment, crime, murder and heavy drug trafficking for decades. The Camden County Police Department was officially created in May, 2013, after the unionized Camden Police department was disbanded. The overhaul, which was supported by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, has been considered unprecendented and has been closely watched around the country. The new force currently has approximately 280 members, and will reach full size by December, with 400 members. Early signs suggest the overhaul has been effective - The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Camden murder rates fell 29% from May, 2013 to July 2013, compared to the same period last year. Absentee rates of the CCPD is also lower: approximately 5% of officers have been reported absent so far, compared to approxmiately 30% of the Camden Police Department prior to the change in command.  (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
CAMDEN, NJ – AUGUST 20: Officer Tom Rambone, of the Camden County Police Department (CCPD), goes on a foot patrol on August 20, 2013 in the East Camden neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey. The town of Camden, which was once a large industrial town but watched it’s population dwindle as manufacturing left, has been marred with societal problems including high unemployment, crime, murder and heavy drug trafficking for decades. The Camden County Police Department was officially created in May, 2013, after the unionized Camden Police department was disbanded. The overhaul, which was supported by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, has been considered unprecendented and has been closely watched around the country. The new force currently has approximately 280 members, and will reach full size by December, with 400 members. Early signs suggest the overhaul has been effective – The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Camden murder rates fell 29% from May, 2013 to July 2013, compared to the same period last year. Absentee rates of the CCPD is also lower: approximately 5% of officers have been reported absent so far, compared to approxmiately 30% of the Camden Police Department prior to the change in command. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Photo via Ridgewood blog

NY Times photo.
The best way to see Camden? In your rear-view mirror.

Wiki photo

Camdennjmonthly photo

Yeah, Camden is a real jewel of promise for America.

Perhaps it is so, in a Democrat-controlled region.

As one commenter noted this morning:

Voting for today’s Democrats is nothing more than voting for the pre-Civil War slave-masters of the South. They’ve done more to keep black people poor and disintegrated into society than the Klan ever dreamed of doing.

 

6 thoughts on “OBAMA-NATION: Obama cites Camden, NJ as “symbol of promise for the nation””
  1. I lived in Burlington County NJ,about 25 miles or 30 minutes from the city of Camden. The Camden waterfront is nice with the US New Jersey battleship and a few other sites such as a great aquarium. But after dark and especially in the summer, you stay out of Camden unless you live there. The City of Camden police force was probably the most corrupt force in the nation. That is why it was shut down. Then the Camden County Police Dept was created. Since it became unionized, not sure if it will be any better. Still the worst city in the US.

  2. Maybe they should be calling these places Obamaville, in reference to the old Hooverville homeless camps.

  3. I lived in the worst part of Akron, OH for 4 years – but this blows that away. The 5th picture looks like a 3rd world country that’s been shelled by artillery.

  4. Camden, Decatur, parts of Danville, Kankakee, parts of Chicago: They all look about the same. They look like Obamaville.

    The difference today in IL is that the law-abiding aren’t sitting ducks for perps.

  5. The pictures of Camden are reminiscent of East St. Louis. Burned out and boarded up buildings and vacant lots where businesses once served the citizens surround the one lovely building left in town – the federal courthouse. Of course it only remains lovely because of the armed US Marshals who patrol the exterior.

  6. Not much difference between those pictures and Detroit. Seems as though there is another place on my list to never get lost/broken down in.

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