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This liberal never criticized Bush for his post-Katrina actions. I think it's ridiculous that presidents are expected to show up following a natural disaster and walk around in their shirt sleeves looking at devastation. They should do their best to make sure FEMA is funded and functioning well, express sympathy and offer hope via television, and then get out of the way.
And you can be sure that if Obama had gone to Louisiana, he'd be criticized on C-D for grandstanding and complicating recovery efforts.
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Originally Posted by daylux
Date of Hurricane Sandy October 22 - Nov 2, 2012
Date of Obama visit October 31, 2012
Photo op.
When Obama doesn't have an election to win and people are in crisis he plays golf. He has proven himself to be a phony.
This liberal never criticized Bush for his post-Katrina actions. I think it's ridiculous that presidents are expected to show up following a natural disaster and walk around in their shirt sleeves looking at devastation. They should do their best to make sure FEMA is funded and functioning well, express sympathy and offer hope via television, and then get out of the way.
And you can be sure that if Obama had gone to Louisiana, he'd be criticized on C-D for grandstanding and complicating recovery efforts.
Of course he would. And by the very same posters who are trying to convince us now that Donald Trump, with his entire entourage of staff and secret service, will have absolutely zero impact on the relief efforts.
I didn't say he complicated anything. I said he was a phony trying to win an election.
The Democratic governor never told Obama to stay away. He's helping the pretend president save face.
He has asked the president to delay his visit until they have things better under control, because a visit by a president, or by a presidential candidate, with all of the security issues and logistics involved, diverts resources that are badly needed for the actual relief effort.
And the president is honoring that request.
Meanwhile, the big orange one couldn't possibly care less about that request. Not when there is a photo op to be had.
It must really sting that HE (a republican) IS THE ONLY ONE that has shown up to at least give those folks some semblance of comfort.
Doesn't matter what he does when he got there or what he promises, the big thing is that he is there.
You hypocritical dems are just too much.
You really believe he's there to give comfort to the victims? Even though his very presence is causing more problems for the relief effort than it's helping? Even though the governor asked that visits by dignitaries be postponed a few weeks so they can concentrate on the work they have in front of them?
Even given all that, you still believe he's there for purely altruistic reasons?
Governor Mike Huckabee RIP'S on the President.....
....Dear Mr. President:
How’s the vacation going on Martha’s Vineyard? Pretty swell place for sure. Ocean breeze, beautiful homes, and packed out with America’s top 1% of the 1%—you must be in your element.
And golf? I’m sure you’re playing so much golf, you’re getting almost tired of it. But then, you never tire of golf. You just seem to tire of that “Presidency thing.”
My neighbors in Louisiana aren’t having it so good, Mr. President. They are underwater—again. Historic floods that have impacted or destroyed 40,000 homes and left thousands of families homeless are sure ruining their hopes for a summer vacation this year. Probably will take away hopes for a summer vacation next year as well. Their once nice homes are now waterfront property. In fact their homes don’t just front the water—they are IN the water and the water is in them.
I realize that in the hustle and bustle of golf, having ice cream, and strolling the quaint streets of the Vineyard you may not have noticed this catastrophic natural disaster. And because you have paid so little attention to it, sadly not many Americans have either.
It’s one reason that when a apocalyptic event like a flood, tornado, or hurricane happens, Governors and Presidents show up. It’s not because their presence can make the water recede (although I do recall you saying something back in 2008 about how nature itself would respond to your election), or pick up the shattered splinters of a home, or recover the lost personal effects a family will never get back. I know this because in my 10 1/2 years as Governor, I walked through many flood waters, stepped over fallen trees during ice storm, held in my arms a weeping widow whose husband was killed shielding her from the fierce and unforgiving winds of a tornado.
I wasn’t there because I could singularly “fix it.” I was there because my presence brought attention to the crisis that my absence wouldn’t have. The news crews who went because I did caused churches and individuals to see the devastation and it mobilized them to action. It gave voice to the victims, and it let those whose lives were irreparably changed know they were not forgotten. It also drove home the degree of devastation to me, and gave me a greater sense of urgency to Marshall all the resources of my state to help in the recovery.
President Clinton—you know him, right? He plays a lot of golf too, but when major disasters struck, President Clinton came. Natural disasters aren’t political. And elected officials shouldn’t be either in the midst of one. I personally walked, drove, and flew through many scenes of human tragedy with President Clinton. Whatever our political differences, he understood that his presence, like that of the local Governor, was reassuring to people who will never know the sweet sea breeze of Martha’s Vineyard. Right now, some of your citizens only smell the stench of a flood’s aftermath—rotting fish and animal carcasses, growing mildew inside homes, and floating sewage that comes as treatment plants involuntarily discharge their waste because of the rising water.
Maybe if it rains in Martha’s Vineyard and you have to cancel a golf game, you might fire up ol’ Air Force One and venture down to check on my friends in Louisiana. I know it will make it there, because it’s taken you and the fam all over the world on some pretty nifty vacations. I don’t begrudge you those vacations, by the way. You need them. But Louisiana needs you right now. Not because you can personally fix it, but because you showing up means a lot of resources will show up as will the cameras to help the nations see how bad it is.
Yes, I’m a partisan Republican when it comes to politics, but this isn’t about our politics—it’s about our people. President Clinton would have already been there. I know there are some things about his Presidency we don’t want you to imitate. But showing up when Americans are hurting would do you and the country some good.
You really believe he's there to give comfort to the victims? Even though his very presence is causing more problems for the relief effort than it's helping? Even though the governor asked that visits by dignitaries be postponed a few weeks so they can concentrate on the work they have in front of them?
Even given all that, you still believe he's there for purely altruistic reasons?
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Exactly. The last thing they need in Louisiana right now is the Cirque D'Orange rolling into town.
Trump & Pence arrived in Louisiana today to meet with local officials and survey the damage in the devastated Baton Rouge and Lafayette communities. The flooding in Louisiana has killed at least 13 people and displaced 80,000 plus from their homes.
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They just added an unneeded burden to a community that doesn't need that. So now state troopers need to protect the convoy for Idiot Trump and his stupid sidekick?
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