Michael Brown, the infamous Bush failed FEMA director forced to resign two weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit, is berating President Obama for “jumping on” Hurricane Sandy “so quickly.”
“One thing he’s gonna be asked is, why did he jump on [the hurricane] so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in…Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas?” Brown tells possibly one of the few media outlets who cared to hear his opinion, a local alternative paper. “Why was this so quick?… At some point, somebody’s going to ask that question…. This is like the inverse of Benghazi.”
Over in RepublicanLand, where BenghaziGate is “worse than Watergate,” berating President Obama for doing his job is a prerequisite for citizenship.
“Conservatives have been hitting Obama for weeks on his attendance at a fundraiser in Nevada following the assault in Benghazi, claiming at alternate times that the President either cared more about politics than lives lost or that he was trying to downplay the attack’s significance,” Think Progress reports:
Now the critique has mutated into a belief that Obama is currently “playing President” to score points during disaster relief in the run-up to the election, in contrast to his actions in September.
Brown is not the only one making the insinuation that Obama and his administration are responding too quickly to Sandy only for political reasons. He’s joined in his accusations by such prominent right-wing commentators as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and columnistCharles Krauthammer.
At least 1,833 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina, and the lack of preparation and management by Bush’s FEMA, and the Bush administration, cannot be left out of that equation.
Michael Brown really should not opine on President Obama’s performance, which, by the way, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today labeled “great.”
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The situation in Libya is being politicized and the victims and there families being instrumented as a ruse to create doubt of Obama’s leadership. Public access to real facts is being whitewashed by this rhetoric while conservative hands paint the Blackface on our President. Watch them mix and apply the paints to his face in a portrait of Obama being Bamboozed by the Far Right at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/bamboo…
Translation: Obama’s continuing efforts to be proactive, responsive, decisive, and receptive to the needs of the American people is all part of a political contrivance to make people believe that the POTUS is proactive, responsive, decisive, and receptive to the needs of the American people.
I do hope that's sarcasm/cynicism I am detecting.
It doesn't matter if this is an election year or not, the president would have still done a good job. He doesn't have to pretend that he cares.
Brownie is in no position to make comments about the president addressing the needed relief that the states hit by Sandy will desperately be needing. For that matter, if Gov. Christie has stated how much he appreciates the kind of leadership that the President has been exhibiting, then you know it's for real. Christie calls 'em as he sees 'em. Up until now he's been very pro-Romney.
The GOP is not happy unless they are complaining about something. No matter what Obama does it's never good enough. I don't know what they expected Obama to do in Libya. I'm sure he did what he thought best at the time considering it was sudden, half a world away and it took time to get all the information.
How can it be wrong that he addressed the need for relief for a huge storm we knew was coming?
I wouldn't think too hard about it. It's politics. ANY decision he makes will ALWAYS be the wrong one according to the opposing party. It's not too complicated.
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