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It's been 6 days now, many people are still burried and awaiting rescue (those still alive). Mobs are getting restless due to several days of waiting for food and water. Medical care is non-existent in most areas. Yet, for all that, this is physically a much smaller, more localized event than Katrina. Katrina devistated several states, not one small island.
Following Katrina, after 2 days, the media and the left were stirring up a schit-storm because some people didn't have hot food and air conditioning. MREs just wern't good enough. GWB and FEMA are cruicified in the press. Yet, now, in spite of poorer response to a more localized event, I see no critizism in the press on the anointed one's response. Or even comments that he can take time off to go stump for a political race in the middle of a crisis response.
One more great example of fair and balanced from the MSM. I'm sure in some way it's all Bush's fault...
Last edited by Toyman at Jewel Lake; 01-18-2010 at 03:53 PM..
It's been 6 days now, many people are still burried and awaiting rescue (those still alive). Mobs are getting restless due to several days of waiting for food and water. Medical care is non-existent in most areas. Yet, for all that, this is physically a much smaller, more localized event than Katrina. Katrina devistated several states, not one small island.
After 2 days, the media and the left were stirring up a schit-storm because some people didn't have hot food and air conditioning. MREs just wern't good enough. GWB and FEMA are cruicified in the press. Yet, now, in spite of poorer response to a more localized event, I see no critizism in the press on the anointed one's response. Or even comments that he can take time off to go stump for a political race in the middle of a crisis response.
One more great example of fair and balanced from the MSM. I'm sure in some way it's all Bush's fault...
Gotta love the incessant RW whining.
It's amazing how many folks thousands of miles away from Haiti are now "experts" as to what's going on there. And how quickly those on the right have politicized this tragedy.
Are you seriously trying to make this comparison?? First off we have massive difference infrastructure. Secondly we had this little thing called a warning for Katrina, you don't exactly get that for an Earthquake.
It's been 6 days now, many people are still burried and awaiting rescue (those still alive). Mobs are getting restless due to several days of waiting for food and water. Medical care is non-existent in most areas. Yet, for all that, this is physically a much smaller, more localized event than Katrina. Katrina devistated several states, not one small island.
After 2 days, the media and the left were stirring up a schit-storm because some people didn't have hot food and air conditioning. MREs just wern't good enough. GWB and FEMA are cruicified in the press. Yet, now, in spite of poorer response to a more localized event, I see no critizism in the press on the anointed one's response. Or even comments that he can take time off to go stump for a political race in the middle of a crisis response.
One more great example of fair and balanced from the MSM. I'm sure in some way it's all Bush's fault...
You're seriously blaming the president for the response time to an earthquake that leveled pretty much every building in a different country? Did you realize that the airport has been choked w/planes due to the mass amounts of people coming in to help? Did you also realize that the roads are a complete disaster over there because of the severe damage, which obviously makes it difficult to get anywhere? Did you not see the picture of the helicopter flying overhead doing water drops? And you have the audacity to blame all of that on our president who pledged how much money to help that country out? Did you also b*tch when you head about that pledge? This forum is a fricking joke sometimes.
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the previous 8 years of constant complaining from the left held no validity and was only a means to push a political agenda. 8 years of strawmans. Awesome.
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the previous 8 years of constant complaining from the left held no validity and was only a means to push a political agenda. 8 years of strawmans. Awesome.
Care to elaborate & even attempt to clarify what you're even talking about & how it relates to humanitarian efforts in a completely different country? Yeah, it doesn't compare. Nice try.
You're fricking seriously blaming the president for the response time to an earthquake that leveled pretty much every building in a different country? Did you realize that the airport has been choked w/planes due to the mass amounts of people coming in to help? Did you also realize that the roads are a complete disaster over there because of the severe damage, which obviously makes it difficult to get anywhere? Did you not see the picture of the helicopter flying overhead doing water drops? And you have the audacity to blame all of that on our president who pledged how much money to help that country out? Did you also b*tch when you head about that pledge? This forum is a fricking joke.
Much of what you said is true, response time to a disaster is beyond what the president alone can control. However, it didn't stop the media and the lefties from blaming Bush for the response to Katrina. While the loss of life was lower, Katrina devistated a much larger area, dispersing rescue efforts. Haiti is a little island, you can't get much over 20 miles from the ocean on the entire island. Plus, much of the island isn't flooded. In comparison, distribution of food, water and rescue personel should be much simpler in Haiti. Yet many areas still haven't received aid.
My issue isn't the response from Obama or the Obama team, rather the difference in response from the media and the whining lefties.
Yet, for all that, this is physically a much smaller, more localized event than Katrina. Katrina devistated several states, not one small island.
Director of Surgery, USNS Comfort, which headed from Baltimore to Haiti on the 17th: "We've never done anything this large. Even in Katrina, it wasn't this big."
Click here Jennifer Reports On USNS Comfort's Departure - Video - WBAL Baltimore (http://www.wbaltv.com/video/22255951/index.html - broken link) , then click on the picture toward the bottom of the page entitled "Comfort's Director of Surgery Talks to Lowell"
Last edited by helenejen; 01-18-2010 at 04:03 PM..
Much of what you said is true, response time to a disaster is beyond what the president alone can control. However, it didn't stop the media and the lefties from blaming Bush for the response to Katrina. While the loss of life was lower, Katrina devistated a much larger area, dispersing rescue efforts. Haiti is a little island, you can't get much over 20 miles from the ocean on the entire island. Plus, much of the island isn't flooded. In comparison, distribution of food, water and rescue personel should be much simpler in Haiti. Yet many areas still haven't received aid.
My issue isn't the response from Obama or the Obama team, rather the difference in response from the media and the whining lefties.
How can it be simpler?? The infrastructure in Hati is much worse than the infrastructure of New Orleans, not to mention the little thing called debris. The situations aren't even remotely similar, so to compare the responses is just asinine.
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