Posted on 08/18/2016 7:43:51 PM PDT by drewh
President Obama is stirring resentment over his refusal to interrupt his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to survey the Louisiana flood — the worst U.S. natural disaster since 2012 — while drawing comparisons to President George W. Bush’s hotly criticized response to Hurricane Katrina in the same state.
Mr. Obama’s lack of urgency is drawing unflattering parallels to the federal response in 2005, when Mr. Bush was branded as uncaring and even racist for not touching down during a flyover two days after Hurricane Katrina
Not only has Mr. Obama refused to cut short his golfing vacation, but he also has issued no public or written statements about the crisis, which has been dubbed the Louisiana Flood of 2016.
The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge opened the floodgates Thursday by urging Mr. Obama to cut his vacation short and bring badly needed attention to the disaster, which has claimed 13 lives and damaged 40,000 homes after a series of storms that unleashed nearly 3 feet of rain. “Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, Mr. President,” said the headline. “We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel,” the editorial said. “In 2005, a flyover by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness.”
The newspaper noted that Mr. Obama did stray Monday from Martha’s Vineyard, described as a “playground for the posh and well-connected,” to attend a nearby fundraiser for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “I think when you need presidential leadership, you need presidential leadership, and when you sign up to be president, you sign up for a 24/7 job,” Advocate Editor Peter Kovacs said on CNN.
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Not enough Muslims affected....
“...Stirs Anger...”
LOL
It’s a bad impression for sure, but like Bush I don’t think the failed President Obama can go in without the state.
I remember how the Bush fly over was used against Bush for no good reason.
Obama would rather continue to play with his balls and his putter than address real problems.
You know what “Chutzpah” is - guts, daring, nerve.
Well, in Yiddish, Obama is a “Putz” holding his “Putter in his hands” while Putzing around with his “Matzah Balls (they fall apart when touched, like all his policies).
....Mr. Obama’s lack of urgency...
Is the hallmark of his terms, except when writing his own laws, dumping thousands of Syrians here, keeping the borders nonexistent, attempting to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights, and foisting a horrific fundamental transformation of America on us.
Y’all think nobama is counting the days till Jan 20?
Obama’s Katrina - he doesn’t give a shit.
Mr. Trump should go now!
I have kin very near New Orleans, two of them have had their houses flooded from this. If I asked them I’m sure they would tell me the last thing they’d ever want is the idiot marxist Obama to come down there and stick his stupid nose in this.
He’ll go later when the golf courses are dried out. What is the point now, it’s gross and smelly and there’s white people down there!
Crazy uncle Joe will show.
“Stirs anger”? People should be marching on the White House by the thousands to register just what they think of Louisiana drowning while the Imbecile-in-Chief golfs. And he couldn’t even be bothered, poor thing, to interrupt his zillionth vacay to go and survey the damage and misery Louisiana is experiencing and offer some aid. I’ve seen dog leavings on the street with more value than him.
Obozo is a lame duck now, he doesn’t have to do anything anymore. Watch for him to clear out GITMO soon...
Trump will do Obama’s job by going to Louisiana.
0bama? The man is a textbook example of immature, self-absorbed, perpetually ignorant scum.
This will get two minutes’ coverage on the Democrat alphabet networks, then back to bashing Trump.
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