Marisha, you really are reaching.

At his last G20 summit, there were many world leaders who refused to shake Bush's hand as he walked by them. Or, perhaps, it was Bush who showed no interest in shaking their hands. Anyway, there is a great video out in Internet land that shows this, if you are interested.

As for Obama's popularity overseas, I think the positive reaction he received as he traveled abroad during the campaign season proves you to be, well, wrong.

Finally, this thing with Obama and the teleprompter is getting old. And lame. Is that all you have? When Bush was giving speeches, according to Ari Fleischer, he “would use the teleprompter for his major big events, but when he would travel around the country or do events, he would almost always work off of large index cards.” I guess reading off index cards is A-OK with you.

Charley (isn't that what your mindless followers call you?),

It truly IS a crying shame that our wonderfully brave and second-to-none warriors (and my son is a current Navy man) have "spilt blood and sweat" because "W" and "Dick" used FALSE information to sway public and congressional opinion on the way to leading this country into this costly and never-ending Iraq fiasco. (By the way, you know who "Dick" is right? ... as in Cheney. Well, maybe you don't know Dick!)

The only complaint I have about him coming, is that I will not get to see him.
I admire the man.
He is highly intelligent, and the best thing that has been in the White House since Bill Clinton.

chris healey, you tube when obama went to russia, officials wouldn't even shake his hand, he is not loved , and his teleprompter must not had told him the question and answer when he called the cambridge police acted stupidly on the crowley/gates issue. im sure if that was scripted like everything else he wouldnt be in the crossfire that he is

the only reason he was at kroger's and not at the wal-mart or food city is the damn unions(sorry i meen his largest campaign contributors). and as for you "UR Kiddinme" alot more people in this area spilt blood and sweat in that "trumped up war" than you may know, might not want to say it that way at the V.A.

Richard, sorry for your inconvenience, but The President was here in an attempt to bolster support for a far-reaching bill that could have untold benefits for everyone. Everyone except of course the ultra rich healthcare bastards and their minions. In my opinion, that's worth spending the money required for his transportation and security, and your little waiting time in traffic. It may not happen again in your lifetime.

Ron, where were you and your TEA party members when Bush began throwing away BILLIONS on his illegal (and now seemingly endless) war in Iraq? I didn't see you guys protesting anywhere. You and your group sat on the sidelines and were silent while your hero led us into a trumped-up war halfway around the world. You only begin to make your voices heard now that somebody is finally making an effort to overhaul the healthcare system in the U.S.? Can you spell hypocracy? Do you know what it means? (should I post this twice like you did or can you understand just this one?)

I got stuck at the shell station at the airport exit from 81. 30 minutes sitting there and the policeman told me that everything from that exit back to virginia was blocked and I couldnt go under airport pkwy on shipley ferry...

So I just stood and watched with the other stranded folks....fiqured Id never see a presidential motorcade in person again... big whoop...lol. I was actually more interested in that big black ford truck with the cube shaped bed/ body..wonder what was in there...

What a mess....and for a town hall meeting at Krogers....with only Kroger employees....

Think of the money spent on this excursion.. he probably could have saved quite a few people from losing their homes...

Not knocking Barry either....all politicians are pretty much the same...wasting our tax dollars either lining their pockets...their buddies pockets...or flushing our tax dollars down the drain on frivilous trips like this.

In your dreams mcqueen, in your dreams.

OPPS i left out a word in my last post, i meant to say "waking up to this SOCIALIST DICTATOR!"

Well i cant resist no more! I just got home from protesting Obuma and his supporters in Bristol, and counted around 1400 protesters of Gov. run health care to maybe 50 Obuma supporters! and as a organizer for North East Tennessee Tea party i was well pleased to see so many are waking up this SOCIALIST DICTATOR! and i also loved putting all them liberals in check face to face, LOL they didnt have a leg to stand on!

Donna....let's revisit this at the end of his term and see if you feel the same. I think after you are hit with some taxes that are on the way (oh, yes they are) you might change your mind. But then again, maybe not. I support the candidate I feel is the best, not by party. I have voted both ways. This past election, I said I wasn't going to vote until Obama won the nomination. If Hillary had gotten the nomination then McCain would have gotten one less vote than he did.

Kajun, sweetheart, if you are attempting to get everyone (except Doris) on the forum to ignore you by posting barely intelligible, pre-pubescent taunts which reveal only your pitiful existence in world where you're continually wrong, congratulations.

Eric I agree with you.
They really come out of the wood work! Their could be a news article about "what ever" and its always Obama's fault, and it would have nothing to do with any type of politics. A lot of these comments on news articles, like this one and many in the past is just entertaining. ROFL!

Oh, and to think we COULD have the ultimately honkey skank as our Commander-in-Chief by now!

Tracy has learned how to copy and paste from all of her nut-job chain emails she gets! Congrats, Tracy!

Jane has a pocketful of solutions as always.

We should contact Bays Mountain to see if they would like to house a parrot along with their other animals, as we have Ms. Want-a-cracker herself here amongst us, Isis B.

People were rough on Bush and his dictator-like policies, raping the country in the name of his god, and spreading wars around the globe. But just listen to these ignorant fools holler about the new guy after 6 months. This is hilarious, FREE entertainment.

Jane Adam, why exactly is Obama an embarrassment to this country? And if that is true, why is he so popular abroad, especially when compared to the last guy?

And what do you have against teleprompters? Did you prefer the incoherent ramblings of the likes of Bush or Palin? You do realize that all recent presidents used a teleprompter right?

Finally Jane, if not by plane, how would you suggest the President of the United States moves around?

Tracy Farmer, are you really trying to convince people that Obama is the CAUSE of all of the problems in this country?

You don't think there is even a little chance that he inherited a complete mess from the class dunce Bush who had the reverse Midas touch?

In case you don't believe me, and I have a sneaking suspicion that you won't, why don't you go back and look at every failed business Bush had before he got into politics. Because the pattern is true time after time: Buy a decent business with borrowed money, ruin it, get bailed out, walk away and do something else.

But instead you want to blame Obama for all the problems he's inherited. Talk about not having a tight grip on reality.

I'd almost be curious to know who you'd be blaming if McCain / Palin had won. Liberal media? Nancy Pelosi?

Jesco White, Your comment "obama inherited the worst economy in 80 years" is nothing but a lie. You obviously do not remember the 70's and Jimmy Carter!

who here really thinks we'd be better off right now with mccain? our economy is like a freighter ship that needs to stop. it's a huge machine with a lot of inertia. you can't stop something like that on a dime and get it going the right direction. yes people will still lose jobs, yes consumer confidence will be down. it's not like you can wave some wand and fix this. it took years for it to get this way and it'll take almost as long to right it. i really don't feel mccain could have done any better. what repubs seem to easily forget is that your fearless leader approved TARP before he left. obama inherited the worst economy in 80 years and repubs want to yell that he hasn't fixed it in 6 months. we began this decline back in 2007 yet bush kept telling us how strong the economy was and nothing needed to be done to fix it. you know who else said that? herbert hoover.

Amen Jane...I don't blame them, I would be tight lipped too...why do you come all the way from DC to lie, lie, lie, when you can do it there for free! I have no desire to see a two bit, lying, thug...SORRY

Wasting more of our money, jaunting around in Air Force One. Obama and his teleprompters is an embarrassment to this country.

UR Kiddinme,
its Mason not Manson, never really liked the Beattles. & tell me this has the trillons obama has spent helped save your job? or any others in this area?

After reading all this I wonder why the Tri-Cities is a joke to most of this State and the rest of the United States. We should be the Capital of the new Republican Republic. God himself cannot get in here for the tight squeeze of hypocrites.

BTW....thanks UR Kiddin.....nice to know not everyone in this town is incapable of thinking for themselves. Kudos!

<<<--------doesn't regret her vote knows better

Tracy,
You seem to have forgotten the previous president and his disgusting rape of this country. Do you honestly believe that the deficit, unemployment rate, medicare funds, etc. were affected to the degree of which you speak in the mere six months that our new president has been in office?

"In short, the Obama regime has in six short months made the United States the most indebted country in the history of world civilization!"--Tracy Farmer (cited here until otherwise cited by outside reliable sources)

Surely, you cannot be that naive. Please do not forget that the prior Chief of Staff inheirited a surplus, and squadered it as though he was a shop-o-holic hockey mom on crack (without the lipstick of course). Neither of us benefited from that money (and please , don't tell me we are safer for it, because then you would truely be insulting our intelligence). I would also like you to site the "source" of your information. I am sure that it is easily obtained on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh radio, or some other "reliable GOP" media outlet. I suggest that you look at all the bullet points in your own post, and then think about the past administration. If one man could really do all of that in six months, he is more powerful than any of us ever thought! Perhaps we should all get an AK-47 and head to the nearest park or restaurant! Yes we can!

Tracy ... please cite your sources, particularly in regard to your outlandish statement that "He has brought the number of unemployed to 20 percent and rising." 20 percent? Are you saying that one in five Americans (I'll do the fancy math for you) is unemployed? Really?

Knows Better, Robert Ward, Charles Manson ... if it weren't for the policies of YOUR party, which was in charge for EIGHT LONG AND DISASTROUS YEARS, then a guy like Obama (from the far left, admittedly) would NEVER have had a chance to become president. REMEMBER THAT EVERY TIME YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT OBAMA AND THE DEMS IN CONGRESS!

So please, take a bow for your much-deserved hard work in helping them get elected because without the failed policies of the prior administration (repubs, I think) there would be NO DISCUSSION of a man named President Obama on this or any other internet site.

I didn't vote for him and thankful I didn't. I've heard many say they regretted their vote...none that wished they had voted for him. I hope some in the Kroger clan has the balls to ask him a tough question and demand an answer instead of talking for 10 minutes without really answering. While I wouldn't walk across the street to see him this is one time I wished I worked at the Bristol Kroger.

Where are all the folks that wanted change and voted for Obama. Pull your head out of the sand and show your guilty faces.

Where Are We Now?

It’s not a pretty picture.

▪ Our national debt is $12,000,000,000,000 (as in trillion)
▪ Social Security’s unfunded liability if $11,000,000,000,000 (as in trillion).

▪ Medicare’s unfunded liability is $48,000,000,000,000 (as in trillion).

All of which adds up to $71,000,000,000,000 (as in trillion!). In short, the Obama regime has in six short months made the United States the most indebted country in the history of world civilization!

This is change, that “only an imbecile could love.

▪ Obama promised to save 3 or 4 million jobs, but we have lost 3.5 million jobs since January.

▪ Obama has promised to hold unemployment to 8 percent – it’s at 9.5 percent and skyrocketing.

▪ He has brought the Government’s tax receipts from corporations down by 55 percent.

▪ He has brought the Government’s tax receipts from individuals down 27 percent.

▪ He has brought the number of unemployed to 20 percent and rising.

▪ He has sent businesses reeling from being told they will bear more of the tax burden and have reduced staff.

▪ He has favored wealth redistribution over job creation and economic growth.

▪ He has funded a Gestapo-like mob of ACORN brown shirts who intimidate everyone.

▪ He has given an equity interest in General Motors to an unsecured UAW debtor as a political payoff.

▪ He has hired over 30 Czars to run the country without them being vetted by Congress.

▪ He has militated against U.S. energy independence by refusing to increase domestic oil drilling in ANWR and offshore and build nuclear plants, but stood by his “addiction” to ethanol, which has caused corn shortages that precipitated starvation in the Third World.

▪ He has used Democrat-controlled media and academia to silence his critics.

As everyone now knows, unemployment is still surging, with many states reporting up to 15 percent to 20 percent of people out of work; consumer confidence is plunging even further; and loan losses are exploding.

The will have to bring the 747 to house the three ring service complete with elephants and clowns

Yippee! Our Dictator for the Socialist Republic of "America" is coming to town. I am so honored, maybe I should go ahead and send in more of my tax money to support his useless trips!!

Elaine most of the hatred you describe comes from the liberal want everything for nothing as you would say "nutcases". Quit blaming everyone else for your problems, step up to the plate, and get ready to pay.

They have landed 747 many times. They got Fed. Grant years ago so that could happen.
No matter what plane he flies in is Air Force 1.
I still wish he would not come this close. DC is really to close for me.
Cost has nothing to do with it. He is taking a Vacation in Maine and the home he will stay in rents for $35,000.00 to $50,000.00 a week. I may go rent it for a few seconds.

Bush brought the VC-25 to KTRI to stump for Repub Gov candidate Van Hilleary. There will be no landing issues, though I do wonder why one of the smaller aircraft like the 757 military counterpart or even the 737 counterpart aren't utilized for these type regional events. To slam Obama for doing so would be silly, Bush 1 brought the old 707 AF1 to the TRI during his failed campaign against Bill Clinton, as did Bush 2 in the newer plane, so they all do it. Pomp and circumstance I guess.

And who told you Cantrell, Rush?

Brian, they might not be bringing the 747 but KTRI's runway should be plenty from what I've seen of that particular 747's abilities. Plus keeping "mum" on the itinerary/schedule is pretty much SOP for any Presidential visit, regardless of who it is. As for Elaine's comments, you ain't never seen the mess the size of the one that's coming.

I'm surprised, and impressed KTRI's runways are long enough for Air Force One to land.