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In a CBS interview today, Barack Obama had this to say about John McCain's
visit to Mississippi:
ANCHOR: Senator McCain and his running mate are going to be visiting
Mississippi to check on hurricane preparations in Mississippi, do you have
plans to come to this area.
OBAMA: You know what I want to do is come after rather as opposed to
before, and the reason is that there is a tendency when I make a visit these
days or any president.either of the nominees make a visit, with secret
service it can distract from law enforcement and the jobs that they need to
do. I'm sure senator McCain's team worked that through and made sure that
that wasn't going to be the case. But I don't want to be a distraction, what
I'm going to do is focus on what needs to happen after the hurricane strikes
and to monitor it over the next 48 hours to make sure we are doing
everything we can.
Aside from the fact that Obama obviously thinks he is already the president,
it is interesting that Obama's position on handling a hurricane is nearly
identical to President Bush's.
Flash back to 2005 when President Bush was criticized for not visiting New
Orleans until after the hurricane:
"And now the best he can do is look out the window of his plane at the
hurricane. His government says he'd like to visit-maybe even tomorrow-but
the White House wants to make sure the president doesn't impede the rescue
effort."
And compare to Obama today:
"But I don't want to be a distraction, what I'm going to do is focus on
what needs to happen after the hurricane strikes and to monitor it over the
next 48 hours to make sure we are doing everything we can."
Any questions?
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Nope, no questions.
Love the Freudian slip: "when I make a visit these days or any
president.either of the nominees make a visit".
Hehehe... not so fast, Barry. We have this little thing called an election
in 60-some days that will decide that, thank you very much.
Also, what a contrast in competence Bobby Jindal is compared to the previous
governor of LA. That, by the way, is one of the things about the Katrina
meme that irritates the hell out of me. Katrina was a 3 level disaster --
local, state and federal. All of them dropped the ball. Last time around,
local and state officials were both Democrats, and from Day One they were
finger pointing instead of preparing. This time, the state and federal
authorities are Republican--and even Nagin is getting off his ass and taking
charge of the situation, instead of whining. And even our nominee is doing
more to focus the national attention on the emergency than the Dem
candidate.
Gustav is giving the Republicans an opportunity to repair their damaged
brand, and the national Dems an opportunity to show how petty they can be.
(Note the post I made earlier about how giddy Michael Moore and the Dems
were that a hurricane was coming to NO during the Republican convention,
mistaking it for a gift from God... to *them*).
- Bob
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