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Just saw his bloviating rhetoric on the news. What caught my ear was, "Under my direction, FEMA has...........blah blah blah."
Why on earth does he always have to take credit? FEMA has its own director and FEMA is perfectly capable of taking action without OBlowHole directing them to do something. Even if they were perfectly helpless, why couldn't the Bloviator In Chief simply have said, "FEMA has..................."
It's always "I, I, I, Under My Direction..........."
This is an example of why he's such a despicable person.
I'm sure if the hurricane misses land, he will take credit. Sickening.
Because the president appoints the director of FEMA, and making sure that there's a competent FEMA director in place is kind of a priority--after the mess that W's director "Brownie" (Michael Brown) made of the emergency reponse with Katrina, I think the president is trying to reassure people in the Gulf that they actually have someone in charge who knows what they're doing this time around. Lives may well depend on it.
*shrug* I read the national geographic article that fully described what would happen when a decent hurricane hit New Orleans. It came out 3 years before Katrina hit and pretty much described what would occur.
They even had a handy dandy timeline of the 2 dozen or so time NO was essentially destroyed over the last 250 years.
The federal governments response was poor but so was the state, local and of course the residents....not that anyone could have seen it coming.
I knew 24-48hours before it made landfall that the levees wouldn't hold, then again....I can read.
Exactly. It isn't exactly rocket science to understand when you choose to live below sea level that eventually the water will find a way. The question moving forward is should US taxpayers be expected to bail-out NOLA in regard to any flood damage yet again? (I vote NO)
Internet tough guy calling the POTUS' 14 or 11 year old daughter "pathetic", could be the most cowardly, pathetic and sad thing I have seen in C-D an that is saying a lot.
He's the one who brought her into the conversation. He should have kept his pie hole shut.
"Daddy, did you plug the hole yet", just begs ridicule.
No, it doesn't beg ridicule. Sure you can make fun of Obama for making a statement, who cares. But ridiculing a little girl? That is kinda sad and it exposes your personality and obfuscates any meaningful talking points you may inadvertently stumble upon.
We were laughing while watching this desperate man give this pathetic speech...it is a tropical storm right now and he acts like we have already been hit with another Katrina. Does not stop him from going to N.O to campaign or to MS...does it? What a joke he is.
Talk to Piyush. He was the one who begged Obama not only for a declaration of a state of emergency but also for federal assistance AND federal reimbursement.
Go after Obama for his stupid remarks, but in my opinion only, children should be left alone. Infact children and even younger teens of Presidents should be left alone.
Obama does do things always with a purpose, or he would not do them at all.
I have many best friends who live in those regions MS, AND LA, during Katrina, and they know they live there, no matter what, there were people who were just not going to leave no matter what was told to them.
He's been in campaign mode for four years, pointing out to us how valuable he is to the country.
If you look through legal documents from socialist or communist countries, you'll find this a common theme. They are often far longer than necessary, and much of their verbiage is spent explaining how beneficial its laws (or the government in general) are.
The U.S. Constitution is some 7 pages long.
The Constitution of China is nearly a hundred pages long in English. Its Preamble alone is three pages (the U.S. one is five lines).
Dictators, and governments intent on ruling against the will of the people, must spend huge amounts of time persuading those people how good and necessary their policies are.
Free governments have no such need.
Obama will never stop telling us how much he has done for us. That's quite a task for someone whose policies have mostly failed.... but that, in part, is why it's necessary.
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