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I think the OP author indeed read the link--it was only a few short paragraphs. Are you suggesting that the link provided undermined the OP in some way?
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In an interview with Denver Westword, Brown said, "One thing [President Obama's] gonna be asked is, why did he jump on [Hurricane Sandy] so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in ... Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas? Why was this so quick? ... At some point, somebody's going to ask that question."
Heck, I could answer Brownie's stupid question here. Sandy has affected millions of Americans whereas the Benghazi affair has affected relatively few. It's not like the Libyans were storming American beaches a la Sandy. It's really a false comparison--one is a natural disaster (sandy, just in case you wondered) while the other is a result of human actions.
On the other part, Obama's response was probably so quick because the president as well as countless other Americans are well aware of the failures of the Bush administration to seriously consider the effects Katrina would have on millions of Americans.
Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown, former FEMA director, has criticized President Obama for responding too quickly to Hurricane Sandy.
“Here’s my concern,” Brown told Denver’s Westword on Monday, suggesting that the official response was actually making people complacent. “It’s premature [when] the brunt of the storm won’t happen until later this afternoon.”
Obama declared states of emergency all along East Coast states in the path of Sandy on Sunday, well before the storm hit, allowing federal resources to start flowing where governors thought they would be needed. FEMA and local responders were able to pre-position a lot of the material being drawn upon now.
And that, boys and girls is the difference between Presidential competency manifested by the appointment of a qualified professional to manage FEMA (President Obama appointed Craig Fugate, Director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, to head the agency) and the embarrassing spectacle of Presidential incompetency manifested by the laughable appointment by President Bush of a completely unqualified horse judge to head FEMA.
And even today, more than seven years after Hurricane Katrina, Brownie is demonstrating that he's every bit the hapless fool that he was when he botched and screwed up the federal response to FEMA. He hasn't learned a single thing.
Whining is about all that useless punk is good for. And now he gets paid to do it on the air!
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In emails he wrote that later became public, Brown came off as inexperienced and uncaring. On the morning of the hurricane, Brown wrote, "Can I quit now? Can I come home?" to Cindy Taylor, FEMA's deputy director of public affairs. Later, in a separate email, he wrote, "I'm trapped now, please rescue me."
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Brownie Whines about Prompt FEMA Response to Hurricane Sandy
