Obama Visits FEMA’s Hurricane Response Center

I like to hear this type of thing. Sounds involved and concerned about citizens. The community organizer in him coming out. That’s good to have if you want to serve people.

I like to hear this type of thing. Sounds involved and concerned about citizens. The community organizer in him coming out. That’s good to have if you want to serve people.
Posted by: TV | Aug 27, 2011 1:21:53 PM
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Yes, as Hemingway once said, “That’s the stuff to feed the troops.”
I get it. It’s a contrast between him and – what’s the name of that other president? – after Katrina.
Great photo-op. Heckuva job, FEMA.
Let’s hide our disappointment if Irene quietly goes goodnight rather than living up to Obama’s “historic” (unprecedented?) prediction.
Still time for 9 holes this afternoon.

“Bottom line, Irene is a big storm to be taken seriously, and it will cause a stormy weekend and plenty of damage, but this is by no means the worst-case scenario for NYC and the northeast — and to the extent the media or government is pretending otherwise, they need to ramp down the hype, for the sake of avoiding complacency about the next storm.” – B. Loy

“Get real foggy, Irene could have…”
Irene didn’t. And by the time barry hysterically called it a “historic hurricane” the science already said it wouldn’t.

it’s naive of me to think that you Obama haters will ever take the high road right?

Humm, FEMA relief money….votes….as Obama strokes his chin.

Man 0bama really needs a “comes to the rescue!” moment. Unless this storm doesn’t come through for him and deliver a ton of damage for him to pretend to care about, he’s got nothing, but a lousier jobs report that is the result of his own economics policies he told us would save us either knowing full well it would do exactly what it has delivered and many said would happen, or really thought that what he wanted to do would somehow “magically” work.

The question is how do you weigh the cost of “over reacting” against the cost of “under reacting” when dealing with “potential” natural disasters! If you over react it results in unnecessarily expense! Take the H1N1 flu vaccine where money was squandered on a vaccine which was late and resulted in millions of wasted dollars!

For those of you so “knowledgeable” about Katrina – FEMA WAS prepared. They are not first responders (as you are seeing now if you follow the coverage). This is a political hot potato for Obama, nothing more. FEMA did NOT drop the ball on Katrina – Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco did. Katrina was a levee breach which had been forewarned for years. The flooding was not as a direct result of Katrina. Know your facts.

Now he will be able to blame the hurricane that [Blame Bush] for the last three years was getting old and not working anymore anyway.

Take the H1N1 flu vaccine where money was squandered on a vaccine which was late and resulted in millions of wasted dollars—you obviously dont have kids. this question is easy. You ask youself, am I comfortable with this risk on my child????? are you comfortable with yourself dying. eh. probably if you’ve lives a good life. Are you comfy risking a child with this at this risk potential??? are you comfy with a child being entombed drowing in a tunnel in boston or ny while trying to get out? of, shall we be proactive and say, well, we dont do this every day, why not live to see a nother day and make sure all the children have a chance to grow up and not die because of this generations adults being too lazy to take preventative measures.

I am not comfortable risking my kids lives on the new vaccines—-big pharma repeatedly puts out dangerous vaccines to make themselve money that cause various health problems for kids. BTW, Bird flu—generaly a hygiene problem—you living with farm animals and allowing your kids to play with dead or dying birds instead of washing their hands.

Noz, did you read the article that talked about how the President participated in a hurricane drill in NYC in 2009? Probably not but the Obama haters were all over that article critizing the President for that too. It is more than obvious that no matter what the President does it won’t be enough for some of you. How pathetic. Most American people however are happy at the way our President is doing his job.

He is so full of it his ship is sinking and he is trying to stay afl
oat,to save himself,cares less abour we the people.ask him about the jet that flew his dog alone,his wifes pvt flight on vacatio. 3 jets at our expense .

It’s excellent the preparation level for this hurricane and it looks like we might be getting lucky and escaping without too much horrific damage.

The problem with America today is we are all waiting for a “federal response”!!! —– Why is that!?!?!? —- There have been many other “disasters in our history… handled at the “local” or “regional” level!! — The problem is when you have HALF the population on the “public dole”… they CAN’T help themselves!! —- Katrina was al about those who waited and said “when is the government coming to save me” —– REALLY sad!!!

The Obama haters, including the GOP Presidential candidates, talk show hosts, etc., will all criticize the President no matter what he does. Sometime next week these sick puppies will start the crescendo criticizing his performance during Irea. But none of them will offer specific ways that he screwed up. Their method will consist of criticising in general, saying how wonderful they are and offering no specifics as to how they would have done better.

Bob Ramos | Aug 28, 2011 5:57:48 AM:
“The Obama haters, including the GOP Presidential candidates, talk show hosts, etc., will all criticize the President no matter what he does. ….But none of them will offer specific ways that he screwed up. Their method will consist of criticizing in general, saying how wonderful they are and offering no specifics as to how they would have done better.”
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You noticed this too… totally agree.
The Republican right-whiners will whine and cry. It’s in their nature.

David From Texas | Aug 28, 2011 12:21:34 AM:
“Obama is PRAYING for major disaster from Irene so he can blame the bad economy on something else.
No Plan
No Clue
NOBAMA!”
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LMAO! ……. Well, at least Obama realizes the economy is bad. That last couple of Republicans we had wouldn’t even admit that we were in a recession.
REMEMBER McCain (“McSame”): “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” (LOL!…as the stock market crashed by 4000 points during the next two weeks)”.
REMEMBER BUSH QUOTE: “That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.” Feb. 28, 2008, after he was told that some analysts are predicting gasoline could go up to $4 a gallon. …….and then gas climbed to $4.12 per gallon in July 2008.
LMAO!…You may say “No Plan, No Clue, NOBAMA!”
I say: NO MORE ‘NO-BRAIN’ REPUBLICANS!

Dark Comedy central at the Right Whiners club…hope the president can get some really clever comedy writers on these guys when he hits the trail. Good stuff to make them laughing stock.

I heard about this news. And I can really see how strong this hurricane is. I hope it won’t take away many lives.

Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of lives have been saved by Obama’s leadership at the helm of the Hurricane Command Center, as Tropical Storm Irene soaks the NYC area with a lot of rain.
Historians and the media will record this huge saving of lives as a great moment in history and a testimonial to the leadership of our great President..

1. Obama still doesn’t support rule of law.
2. Great photo op. But won’t help polls.
3. Some Al Quaeda guy’s dead? Who knew?
4. Some Fox News guy says we don’t need the National Weather Service.
5. What talking head shows? All preempted.

MEC | AUG 28, 2011 3:36:23 AM posted: “The only thing that Obama knows about wind is what constantly comes from his mouth and his butt.”
A perfect example of thinking that has obstructed every effort to rebuild jobs for America’s future. It’s time to force inflexible, mean spirited ignorance out of office – there is an element of extremist GOP in Congress unfit to govern. Why should we allow such shallow, malicious nastiness to direct our future?
Meanwhile, our President and states from the Carolinas to Maine were looking out for our neighbors, the sick, the unemployed, those at risk, and people who are down and out. This includes responsible Republican AND Democratic governors.
Just as planning and recovering from a storm requires ALL of us to cooperate, so too does it require the UNITED States of America to work together for economic recovery.

I’VE JUST COME TO REALIZE THAT THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO CRITICIZE THE PRESIDENT REGARDLESS TO WHAT HE DOES

“It’s time to force inflexible, mean spirited ignorance out of office”
Liberal fascism.

This administration will not be caught with its pants down like Bush with Katrina.
Posted by: focusonjobs1 | Aug 27, 2011 7:30:13 PM
Ha! Ha! Do you know where Biden was yesterday? Hawaii, playing golf.
This was ANOTHER photo-op for the campaigner in chief, nothing more.

I’VE JUST COME TO REALIZE THAT THERE WILL BE THOSE WHO CRITICIZE THE PRESIDENT REGARDLESS TO WHAT HE DOES
Posted by: Justin | Aug 28, 2011 10:40:32 AM
And the press WON’T criticize him, no matter what he does or doesn’t do….

Where was Obama during “Hurricane” Ike? He should not be grandstanding because millions of people and his ratings are low!! There are people that still have not recovered from the devastation of Ike. FEMA???

LOL ! As if the democratic process of voting out Republican state representatives in Wisconsin was somehow “Liberal fascism”.
Expect more of this kind of talk as our nation moves ahead to build jobs – socialism, commies, “job-killing taxes” and the rest of right wing Big Lie. The idea is that if a lie is repeated often enough, there are some who believe it.
Back in the 60s the John Birch Society railed against President Eisenhower as a traitor and commie. (Sound familiar?) These extremists were discredited by classic conservative John F. Buckley, who dismissed them as “idiots”.
Since then, the Birchers went underground, but they have been well funded and reincarnated as today’s extremist right wing. Guess whose father helped found the John Birch Society? Vote them all GONE.
Posted by: green.goddess | Aug 28, 2011 11:09:47 AM
Vote them all GONE/OUT/CRAZY.
“It was estimated in 1964 that the John Birch Society was spending $10 million a year on 7,000 weekly television and radio broadcasts. The editor of the Idaho Statesman wrote: “When day after day they hear distortions of fact and sinister charges against persons or groups, often emanating from organizations with conspicuously respectable sounding names, it is no wonder that the result is: Confusion on some important public issues; stimulation of latent prejudices; creation of suspicion, fear and mistrust in relation not only to their representatives in government, but even in relation to their neighbors.”
Definitely sounds familiar.

No FEMA money for votes this time around.

And what words of wisdom was Obama going to lay on FEMA anyway?

Thank you Mr President for taking charge and averting this country from disaster. These storms caused by republican policies that have increased global warming are killing our planet. This storm could have been much worse had you not taken charge. Thank you Mr President for your service to this country.

edit: “,,and FOR a policy of isolationism”.

yukyuk wrote:”These storms caused by republican policies that have increased global warming are killing our planet.”
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I guess that is one more thing oBama inherited from the Bush administration…. a disturbed upper atmosphere in the tropical region…. we’ve never had a hurricane like this before….when will oBama catch a break from all these distractions so he can pivot and get back to focusing like a laser on job creation.

If Obama singlehandedly cured cancer and turned straw into gold, they’d attack him for putting oncologists out of work and undermining gold prices. Seriously.
Posted by: TheRealRaven | Aug 28, 2011 12:55:21 PM
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FOGGY | AUG 28, 2011 1:41:44 PM
Sorry to have offended your delicate sensibilities Foggy! Truly, that’s my fault. I should know better than to use the word “force” since in the current Right Wing environment, them’s fightin’ words that easily translate into “punish our enemies with force” and images of something like FEMA Concentration Camps.
Read within the context of the rest of my posts, I’m not calling for running Right Wingers out of town on a rail. Let me clarify: vote every uncooperative neo-John Bircher out of office. Wisconsin was a good start.

Sigmonde — Sigmonde – The eighties were a long time ago. Since that time history has proven that Reagan skyrocketed the deficit by his proven FAILED economic policies and it took a Democrat to put our country back in the black only to be squandered by the next “conservative” Republican in line.

FEMA seemed worthless under Bush, but that was Bush’s fault. FEMA has been doing just fine under new management.
Posted by: Zadoc | Aug 28, 2011 3:53:13 PM
Bush appointed an old show-horse buddy of his to run FEMA. Cronyism of the inept.

Bob Ramos…sounds like a critique of the Democrat party. Long on name calling and gutter sniping and short on workable policies. The Republicans put forth many plans that the Democrat (party of NO) simply won’t consider.

Nothing more than a photo op for President Downgrade. Im sure he wanted more of a disaster to help his 38% approval rating but it was not meant to be not even mother nature wants him reelected.

He came back from his vacation of rubbing elbows with the rich (I hope they paid their full share) to preside over a Lib Coast hurricane.
Where was he when Joplin got wiped off the face of the map? In Europe, apologizing for how horrible the United States is and eventually showed up in Joplin a week later.
Most worthless, self serving, arrogant, jackwagon of a President ever.
You Jimmy Carter is building a house somewhere and laughing his butt off.

Its nice to see that the John Birch Society is making the news again. For more information, go to Youtube and enter a search for “Overview of America”

The quality of life and security for the citizens has been largely restored and we are a large part of why that has happened.

I personally don’t care what the Republican tea party Saboteurs think, the true of the matter is we were in the 16th straight month of private sector job GROWTH. More PS jobs were created in 2010 alone than in 8 years under Bush. But we LOST so many under Bush and the policies of his administration (over 8 million) that, despite gaining over 2 million to date under Obama and the policies of HIS administration, we are still in the hole. Interesting that the Republicans, since the mid-terms, GOT their extension of the Bush tax cuts for the top 3%, have obstructed the elimination of loopholes and subsidies for the largest corporations and richest Americans, and have been slashing PUBLIC sector/government employment in states where they were voted in, and job growth has SLOWED from an April total of 250,000 to a June rate of 18,000. The private sector added 57,000 jobs in May, while government employment shrank 39,000 — the eighth straight monthly decline — as local and state governments continued to wield a budget ax. In other words, the Republicans are doing everything in their power, in Congress and on the state and local level, to slow or even REVERSE the recovery, with an eye towards 2012. But in spite of their efforts (and of the disaster in Japan and the recent spike in gas and food prices, all of which have contributed to the slowdown and are considered by most economists to be temporary effects, already waning) we are STILL gaining jobs every month. Beginning in March 2008, we LOST jobs every mth, as many as 800,000 in a single mth (Bush’s last mth in office). Since, the losses slowed every mth, then finally, in March of 2010, stopped and reversed, becoming monthly GAINS. Now, the Republicans want to return us to the SAME policies that LOST us 8 million PS jobs! And they are flat-out LYING about the state and outlook of the economy under Obama in an attempt to make their case. If America falls for it, we get what we deserve. The facts are out there for anyone who bothers to look.