Sharp contrast between Bush handeling of Katrina v. Obama's handeling of Hurricane...

Onceler said:
Well, Irene was a hurricane, the flooding was pretty bad in some states, lots of folks don't care what causes the flooding - it's the flooding that matters, and even more folks care about what happens in NYC, since it's the financial & business capitol of the U.S.

So, your batting average in trying to downplay this is kind of low...
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Except it wasn't when it hit. But then we can play that game forever. I do remember that there was a week of warning to get out of New Orleans before it hit as well...

I'm glad things worked out and not too many died, but the reality is one was a massive hurricane the other one was but then was downgraded then hit...

While there was flooding, it was not a hurricane.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0...e-downgraded-from-hurricane-to-tropical-storm

The idea that a city situated in a bowl hit by a hurricane and a city above sea level hit by a tropical storm should be equivalent is only problematic for people who want desperately to show that Obama was barely more effective than the man they believe to be the "worst President in history" (wait, I should have said pResident as the left was wont to do back then).

Your "batting average" on exaggerating it is an excellent. 1.0..
 
Damocles said:
Except it wasn't when it hit. But then we can play that game forever. I do remember that there was a week of warning to get out of New Orleans before it hit as well...

I'm glad things worked out and not too many died, but the reality is one was a massive hurricane the other one was but then was downgraded then hit...

While there was flooding, it was not a hurricane.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0...e-downgraded-from-hurricane-to-tropical-storm

The idea that a city situated in a bowl hit by a hurricane and a city above sea level hit by a tropical storm should be equivalent is only problematic for people who want desperately to show that Obama was barely more effective than the man they believe to be the "worst President in history" (wait, I should have said pResident as the left was wont to do back then).

Your "batting average" on exaggerating it is an excellent. 1.0..
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LOL

You really do have ODS, man. And I'd love to see what I said that you deem an "exaggeration." That Irene was actually a hurricane? That some people outside of the tri-state area actually care what happens in NYC?

Ridiculous....
 
Jarod said:
I know President Obama is not very popular, generally popularity is not a measure of ability or quality of job done.....

But here we were facing a smaller storm, the Right was all over Obama for taking a vacation, and president Obama leaves his vacation to be at the NHC so he can monitor the situation and be in the game.....

Bush was on vacation for Katrina, it was devistating as predicted by the NHC. Bush did not leave his vacation early, in fact he stayed on vaca for 3 more days, then flew over New Orleans from the comfort of Air Force One to assess the damage.... Then told Brownie, the man who was a champion horse breeder prior to getting the political appointment to be head of FEMA, how he was doing a "heck of a job."!
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ZappasGuitar said:
My GOD...are you blind or just ignorant?





Above is Jarod IN THE OP of this thread stating that Bush WAS on vacation...are you physically incapable of telling the truth or something?
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i meant to say he was wrong that he did not cut his vacation short.

are you incapable of not insulting? is every mistake a lie?
 
Originally Posted by Jarod I know President Obama is not very popular, generally popularity is not a measure of ability or quality of job done.....

But here we were facing a smaller storm, the Right was all over Obama for taking a vacation, and president Obama leaves his vacation to be at the NHC so he can monitor the situation and be in the game.....
Bush was on vacation for Katrina, it was devistating as predicted by the NHC. Bush did not leave his vacation early, in fact he stayed on vaca for 3 more days, then flew over New Orleans from the comfort of Air Force One to assess the damage....
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Thats funny Jughead......where did Obama 'monitor' the situation from ?....Was it from the comfort of his living room ?....watching TV ?.....or from his bedroom ?....were you there ?

Yet you like tell us Bush was flying in the comfort of AF 1 monitoring Katrina.....and you can't see what as asshole partisan hack you are....

Its ironic....Congress goes on recess August 1 to Sept. 5 and Bush goes to his ranch in Texas, speaks a military bases and confers with other officials monitoriung hurricane Katrina and is vilified for not being in Washington....
They even said it was "unseemly" to go to Crawford when troops were fighting in Iraq.....

Yet Obama, in the path of the storm at Marthas Vineyard is asked to leave because of a mandatory evacuation and return to DC and he is said to be returning to oversee....oversee what ?....its bullshit and played to the hilt by his gullible worshipers....like he cut his vacation short voluntarily....

Are troops not fighting in Afghanistan right now ?...Well folks...Obama still manages to vacation often while the troops fight and die, without being vilified for it.....

The Double Standard thrives......
 
Yurt said:
i meant to say he was wrong that he did not cut his vacation short.

are you incapable of not insulting? is every mistake a lie?
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And you get suckered into the left wing propaganda.....you hold to the double standard like a true pinhead does, without thinking on your own.
 
\\(\(\/)/)// said:
Perry shoulda prayed Irene to Texas.



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It looks like his aim is a bit off, but the rain did fall.
 
Onceler said:
LOL

You really do have ODS, man. And I'd love to see what I said that you deem an "exaggeration." That Irene was actually a hurricane? That some people outside of the tri-state area actually care what happens in NYC?

Ridiculous....
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If it wasn't so funny to watch it would be sad...that there are people like Damo and Yurt who appear to be physically incapable of conceding even the smallest of points.

And Damo's hysteria is astounding! To spend post after post making sure everyone knows that the storm that hit NYC technically wasn't a hurricane, as if that info gives them an excuse to mock Obama's response to the situation.
 
Onceler said:
Like I said - if FEMA botched this, you'd have 5-6 threads going already. Brownie was not qualified to head FEMA.
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So whats FEMA doing ?.....you wanted FEMA to perform miracles while hurricane Katrina was raging...., so what are they doing now .... after this storm ?
 
bravo said:
So whats FEMA doing ?.....you wanted FEMA to perform miracles while hurricane Katrina was raging...., so what are they doing now .... after this storm ?
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Guess you missed the news over the weekend. Mayors, governors & other local officials all over the east coast repeatedly praised FEMA for both their proactiveness & responsiveness, before, during & after the storm.

Textbook stuff. I think your ODS is hilarious. Your inability to give any credit at all basically screams to the world, "I will not give Obama credit for anything, at any time, under any circumstances. Whatever it is, Bush was better."
 
ZappasGuitar said:
If it wasn't so funny to watch it would be sad...that there are people like Damo and Yurt who appear to be physically incapable of conceding even the smallest of points.

And Damo's hysteria is astounding! To spend post after post making sure everyone knows that the storm that hit NYC technically wasn't a hurricane, as if that info gives them an excuse to mock Obama's response to the situation.
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Hysteria? I'd say hysteria would be people equating a tropical storm with a hurricane in hysterics rather than the person putting it back to reality... It wasn't a hurricane that hit, it was a tropical storm.
 
Onceler said:
Guess you missed the news over the weekend. Mayors, governors & other local officials all over the east coast repeatedly praised FEMA for both their proactiveness & responsiveness, before, during & after the storm.

Textbook stuff. I think your ODS is hilarious. Your inability to give any credit at all basically screams to the world, "I will not give Obama credit for anything, at any time, under any circumstances. Whatever it is, Bush was better."
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I guess I did miss it....have the news on today for the last 6 or 7 hours and didn't hear a thing about FEMA....guess HLN and CNN have heard about it either....Vermont and RI look like they could use some help
so what did they do that was so praise worthy....other than give out money....

I give credit to Obama the same as Bush for their handling of the storms they had to contend with....I don't have that double standard working like you do.....
the only idiots I ever had problems with were the local officials in LA....the Mayor and Gov....two assholes that are directly responsible for people dying in NO....
 
Damocles said:
Hysteria? I'd say hysteria would be people equating a tropical storm with a hurricane in hysterics rather than the person putting it back to reality... It wasn't a hurricane that hit, it was a tropical storm.
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Riiiiiiiight...and everyone knows that tropical storms don't pack winds of any REAL force do they Damo?

Nah...73 MPH winds can't do any damage, can they Damo?

We all know that tropical storms don't produce storm surge like a real hurricane, do they Damo?

Nobody suffered ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER during thiis weekend's storm, did they Damo?

Yes...the only hysteria I see is coming from you idiots with ODS, so very desperate to disparage Obama any way you can...and Damo's personal case of ODS grows stronger and more apparent by the day.
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Riiiiiiiight...and everyone knows that tropical storms don't pack winds of any REAL force do they Damo?

Nah...73 MPH winds can't do any damage, can they Damo?

We all know that tropical storms don't produce storm surge like a real hurricane, do they Damo?

Nobody suffered ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER during thiis weekend's storm, did they Damo?

Yes...the only hysteria I see is coming from you idiots with ODS, so very desperate to disparage Obama any way you can...and Damo's personal case of ODS grows stronger and more apparent by the day.
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LOL. So we should equate it to a hurricane because, again, you want to show that FEMA under Obama was able to perform at a slightly higher level than it did under Bush? Okay. I think that should be your goal, you should run on that...

I can see the ads now...

"At least one thing was run slightly better than under Bush! Obama/Biden 2012!"
 
Yurt said:
well, bush wasn't on vacation, so not applicable. is it your claim bush did not monitor katrina? have you clicked the factcheck link? you should because it will save you from repeatedly giving false information.
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Yes, actually Bush was in Crawford on VACATION!
 
Damocles said:
LOL. So we should equate it to a hurricane because, again, you want to show that FEMA under Obama was able to perform at a slightly higher level than it did under Bush? Okay. I think that should be your goal, you should run on that...

I can see the ads now...

"At least one thing was run slightly better than under Bush! Obama/Biden 2012!"
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Hey...nice job dodging every single question I asked in my last post!

Damo...just the latest graduate of the Yurt school of debate...
 
Yurt said:
thanks for clearing that up, i did not remember that. thank you for also showing that both onceler and jarod are wrong to claim that bush was not on vacation. i'm so touched that you used my post to that though, because i know you wouldn't want to outright say that onceler and jarod are wrong.

:)
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I never said he was not on vacation... .I have consistantly said he WAS on vacation! Idiot! Bush was almost always on vacation in the Summers.
 
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