Message to Obama from McClendon, Nichols, Hamm and Ward

[Roadhawg]

Metro, what is Fallin doing in Puerto Rico to advance our interests?

Probably just enough so she can get the state to pay for it.

[Bellaboo]

Probably just enough so she can get the state to pay for it.

Let's hope not, her husband has so much money she doesn't need the state to pay for it.

[Spartan]

Metro, what is Fallin doing in Puerto Rico to advance our interests?

Hopefully not speaking any Spanish!

[HewenttoJared]

If those 4 men are remembered any better than William Orton by 2050 I'll eat my shoes.

[ljbab728]

Metro, what is Fallin doing in Puerto Rico to advance our interests?

Obviously she is exporting our faith, family, and freedom. LOL

[Double Edge]

Well, I think it goes further than that. I really don't think he wants our state's electoral college votes. I assure you he won't be running in any campaign ads here, nor does he need to.

I think this is more of a ploy for him to rebuff the oilies with their own backdrop, and for that, I think he at least deserves mine and your respect (is that grammatically correct?).

I think we just need to wait to see what his announcement is tomorrow, whether he will be groveling or whether he'll be dignified.

I missed his rebuff. Looks like he was the grandstanding groveller who put himself in the position to be their subject of rebuff. He rolled in the tar and was all but feathered. He's got no respect from me for the stunt.

[OSUFan]

Just to be clear I'm not knocking Fallin for going to Puerto Rico. Just want Metro to back up his comment that she couldn't be here because she was working.

[Larry OKC]

Fallin is on a family vacation and Lt. Gov. Lamb was in Washington DC meeting with VP Biden. That said I think Gov Fallin shouldn't be going out of state for vacation any more than I thought Gov. Henry should have been taking his vacations in Mexico. At least Fallin didn't go out of the country per se (since Puerto Rico is a US territory).

[metro]

Just to be clear I'm not knocking Fallin for going to Puerto Rico. Just want Metro to back up his comment that she couldn't be here because she was working.

I read two reports, one said vacation, the other said state business. It's possible the initial report mixed her up with Lamb. Either way, she wasn't here, get over it.

[metro]

Fallin is on a family vacation and Lt. Gov. Lamb was in Washington DC meeting with VP Biden. That said I think Gov Fallin shouldn't be going out of state for vacation any more than I thought Gov. Henry should have been taking his vacations in Mexico. At least Fallin didn't go out of the country per se (since Puerto Rico is a US territory).

Do you approve of first daughter Malia Obama going to Mexico this past week with a dozen of her friends, while the State Dept. encourages Americans to stay out of Mexico?

[Bellaboo]

Do you approve of first daughter Malia Obama going to Mexico this past week with a dozen of her friends, while the State Dept. encourages Americans to stay out of Mexico?

I'm sure they sent an equivillent to the '6th brigade', at everyones expense.......so they'll have a good party.

[OSUFan]

I read two reports, one said vacation, the other said state business. It's possible the initial report mixed her up with Lamb. Either way, she wasn't here, get over it.

Oh I'm over it. I don't care where she is/was to begin with. Just pointing out that she definitely wasn't away doing business for the state like you posted.

[Roadhawg]

Do you approve of first daughter Malia Obama going to Mexico this past week with a dozen of her friends, while the State Dept. encourages Americans to stay out of Mexico?

Stay out of the areas determined to be unsafe is what the State Dept. said. Where they went was not one of those areas.

[OKCTalker]

Some news reports said that Gov. Fallin was in Puerto Rico on vacation and chose not to return - I'm perfectly OK with that. Same goes if it was Gov. Brad Henry in Puerto Rico and President George Bush was paying a visit. The governor would spend more time travelling to/from Puerto Rico than the president spent in Oklahoma - just to say, "Welcome to Oklahoma Mr. President." Makes no sense.

[Edgar]

I would have gone to Jamaica to advance our states interests, mon.

[MikeOKC]

Malia Obama's trip to Mexico was not some kind of Spring Break-style vacation.

Malia, 13, attends Sidwell Friends School in Washington, which has been organizing trips to Oaxaca for years, said Ellis Turner, the associate head of school, who pointed out that there was no State Department travel warning for Oaxaca.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/wo...officials.html

[Easy180]

Some news reports said that Gov. Fallin was in Puerto Rico on vacation and chose not to return - I'm perfectly OK with that. Same goes if it was Gov. Brad Henry in Puerto Rico and President George Bush was paying a visit. The governor would spend more time travelling to/from Puerto Rico than the president spent in Oklahoma - just to say, "Welcome to Oklahoma Mr. President." Makes no sense.

Probably best for us all that she wasn't here to embarrass us by waving a tea party flag from a second floor balcony

[OKCretro]

OUCH! The Journal Record slams state leaders for presidential snub.
http://journalrecord.com/?p=177562

where was this outcry when Henry refused to come back to shake hands with Bush?

oh wait there wasnt any. Politics as usual for the liberals

[OKCretro]

how many vacations has obama and his family taken in the last 3 years at our expense?

[OKCretro]

Good thing Askins didnt win or Michelle would tell her to get on a diet and eat healthy

[Edgar]

like Germans, conservatives shouldn't do humor.

[Larry OKC]

Do you approve of first daughter Malia Obama going to Mexico this past week with a dozen of her friends, while the State Dept. encourages Americans to stay out of Mexico?

Nope

On edit: after reading posts that followed...maybe