Obama 2005: President Bush should have gone to New Orleans after Katrina, and his failure to do so shows his indifference to the suffering of the victims.
“When the people of New Orleans and Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there. When people looked up from the rooftops, for too long they saw an empty sky. When the winds blew and the flood waters came, we learned for all of our wealth and our power, something wasn’t right with America. We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005, and we should. We can talk about levies that couldn’t hold, about a FEMA that seem not just incompetent but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from a window on an airplane instead of down here on the ground, trying to provide comfort and aid.”
Obama 2008: “The bargain that any president strikes with is, you give me this office and in turn my, fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, family life, vacations, leisure is gone.” (Yes, Hilariously, King Putt promised he would give up vacation and leisure activities if elected president.)
Obama 2016: Interrupts his Martha’s Vineyard vacation for a Democrat fundraiser, but not to travel to Louisiana after massive flooding. The Obama Administration, however, has stepped up and ordered relief workers not to engage in racial or other discrimination because that’s of course, the first thing you worry about when thousands of people have lost their homes, jobs, and livelihoods.
“In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against engaging in ‘unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency)'”
Obama’s Apologists: The president isn’t going to Louisiana because he “detests theatrical politics.” (Really, they want us to believe the president who staged a photo–op with a bunch of faux-doctors in white lab coats to sell ObamaCare hates theatrical politics.)
Really, though, Obama supporters don’t give a damn about Obama’s response to the disaster, and they never really cared about Bush’s expect to the extent they could use the latter as a political cudgel against him. Leftists care about power, and nothing else.
Where’s Hillary? Can’t do Louisiana, too busy shaking down big donors for money.
Where’s Trump? Oh, he went down to New Orleans with his running mate to check things out and hand out relief supplies. And the Democrat Media Complex has the nerve to caution him against “seeming craven, using crises for political gain.”
One cannot even.
The guiding principle of the DemonizingRats is to “never let a chance to demagogue your opposition go to waste.”
Frankly, going to the scene of devastation is a photo op and putting in an appearance; yet, the tired and wearied people who are part of the devastation picture get a morale booster from the effort, no matter how staged if it is sincere.
When G.W. stood on the wreckage of the Twin Towers and said through the bullhorn, I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon, the moment was etched in time.
Obambi has been president on his terms and his terms alone. Hours after the Benghazi tragedy, Obama flew to Las Vegas for a political fund raiser. After Obama gave a speech about the brutal beheading of James Foley by ISIS, he left the White House and went golfing. No one was sent from the White House to attend Foley’s memorial service, but White House aides were sent to the funeral of the “Gentle Giant” in Ferguson. Missouri.
Optics. That is what we are talking about. They are important. Like when Hillary goes up to the parents of Benghazi dead and tells them that the government will get the guy who made the video that caused it all.
Sincerity is vital if the optics are to work. Feigned sincerity stinks like a dead fish and people pick up on it really quickly.
Obama is going to Louisiana a day late and a Brink’s truckload short of honest concern. He may set down at Augusta on the way home to golf. Who would be surprised? Never let a free afternoon using Air Force One go to waste.
The American Public is not stupid. They can see this as well.
Craig Smith….apparently not…The left is on a tear about Donald Trump passing out play dough …saying.. “You can’t eat play dough” Read the comments at some of the other websites…it’s pitiful!!
They don’t care,they really,really just could care less.
It’s just all about “their side” vs. “our side”…us/against them in this battle to hold the country.And there are no rules they won’t break and the only standard is their opinion.
I remember it too well during Katrina. Bush pushed everything as far foward as possible, once it became clear we were in the bullseye.We thought we dodged the big one, no such luck. While the Coast Guard helicopters were plucking people off rooftops south of New Orleans, the levees along the drainage canals broke. (Thanks Bill Clinton and Marc Morial ) A bad situation got a whole lot worse, there just weren’t enough properly equipped helicopters to conduct that many rescues immediately available.Desperate thugs started taking potshots at choppers trying to attract their attention, with 22caliber rifles. Bush flew overhead at about this time. Did they think Airforce One could make a water landing? Were they hoping he would get shot? (Probably yes) Meanwhile Kathleen Babble Blanco dithered, hithered and hemmed and hawwed about allowing the situation to get federalized. Ray Nagin had a freakout on the radio.(justified in my opinion) And Brownie went catatonic. As soon as it was safe Bush came. Federal resources were flooded down here, and we started putting things back together. But even during the worst of it Bush seemed to be in the loop, he seemed to care. That is a highly symbolic function of a President, comforter in chief.
Trump’s visit may have been symbolic, but it matters to those affected. Obummer didn’t have to show up during the search and rescue,but a press briefing or two would have shown he cared.
But Matthew the Oilman, y’all have a Dem governor at the moment, so he will make everything all better and get an approving fist bump when the Golfer-In-Chief comes to visit. He already attempted to provided initial cover this past week. It seems likely he will continue to do the same this coming week.
We call him Tinkerbell Edwards. Yeah , we could have had David Vitter, but our “Authorized Media ” kept reminding us he paid for sex.