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Compare and contrast New Orleans and Haiti. We have a president that showed NO hesitation, asked NO person and took ACTION immediately to send help to Haiti. He has acted 100% like a President and a leader. He has made all of very proud on this. The rest of the world- as far away as China- is following his lead on this. Millions of Americans are also following his lead in giving money and time to help.
Compare that to The Idiot (W) that refused to help even his fellow Americans until it got so embarrassing that he had to do something several days later. It is nice to have a real leader that we can be proud of for a change!
You guys are anal when it comes you BOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!
0bama is just doing what he does best, spending other people's money, while looking like the savior.
I think a better comparison would be how bush handled the Tsunami in 2004.
It took him days to respond, and when he did he only gave 15 million in aid. It wasn't until the entire world booed him did he finally agree too send 350 million overseas.
Good points, KevK. It's incredible how much better it is to have a real leader who takes charge, bears responsibility like an adult, and has aid deployed before the dust settles. Bush was still on vacation at this point, and Katrina happened in his own country!
Obam'as turning out to be a great president, indeed.
MY APOLOGIES I POSTED THIS SAME REPLY IN ANOTHER THREAD!!
I think a better comparison would be how bush handled the Tsunami in 2004.
It took him days to respond, and when he did he only gave 15 million in aid. It wasn't until the entire world booed him did he finally agree too send 350 million overseas.
They knew weeks in advance it was coming, had meetings going over the evac plans days before it hit and did nothing.
Learn the system, the mayor ask the ask the governor for help, then the governor has to ask the feds for help.
Nagin wanted to be a hero and he turned out to be a total failure. He would NOT allow the national guard into the city until it was already out of control.
Your mayor is responsible for you first and foremost, then your governor.
There really is no point in trying to argue a point if the federal government was too slow to help the people in New Orleans during Katrina. There just is no point. If you are going to sit here, come up with excuses, etc. then you will stay on that view no matter what.
That is cool though. Rock on.
Do you really mean half the stuff you say, or do you just do it to get excitment out of people?
Anyways, with that all aside. I just hope the major problems with failing Katrina relief efforts was studied and if anything like that happened again we would know how to put better relief and lock down on a city quicker. Pointing fingers 5 years after the fact is useless.
Maybe we should lend Obama to Haiti for several months, he can do for them what he's done for us. No, they don't deserve another disaster on top of all this.
So if it's the fault of the local government, then what the hell is FEMA good for? Oh right...nothing. Do you HONESTLY think the fed's sat back and saw the devastation and magnitude of a hurricane that large and thought, "The local's will be fine...they can handle it."
BS!!!
Check out the Katrina timeline. Talking Points Memo, a decidedly left leaning blog, did a good job capturing the essentials. TPM Hurricane Katrina Timeline
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