Comments on: Obama’s Katrina Ignored by Media

By: American Viking

American Viking — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:58:46 +0000

I’m appalled at the idiocy in defending Obama by these bafoons commenting here, Rob. As a Louisiana native, I THANK YOU for your comment about the deaths occurring because of the dipshits who REFUSED to leave their homes DAYS before Katrina hit. And your comment about the death toll in N.O. every year due to the crime, as well as the deaths that were contributed to Katrina but were actually from the criminals taking advantage of the situation. Thank you for a VERY HONEST post!

By: Jenn Q. Public

Jenn Q. Public — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:04:56 +0000

Question for the people defending President Obama: what is preventing him from releasing a heartfelt statement asking the American people to consider volunteering and making donations to the Red Cross? He could both acknowledge the disaster and rally Americans to help. Wasn’t that one of Obama’s big criticisms of President Bush’s reaction post-9/11 – that there was no national call to service following the attack?

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:38:47 +0000

John when power goes out in California are you trapped in a house by downed power lines and can’t leave? Are you unable to heat your house while nightly temperatures go to freezing?

The point is you were quick (and still are) to blame Bush of a city shaped like a bowl flooding during a Hurricane. But you won’t blame Obama for FEMA not getting to people who are still trapped in their house and freezing.

Understand that if you were trapped during Katrina you could simply floay a board until you could wade out. The people trapped in thi ice storm can’t get out their houses and will freeze to death.

Your heart doesn’t go out to anyone, or you wouldn’t minimize the deaths that happened. You’re a degenerate.

By: John

John — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:46:48 +0000

“It is a scene more chaotic than Katrina and much more dangerous…”

-Are people really stupid enough to believe propaganda nonsense like this? To call this Obama’s Katrina? As for the 1.3 million without power, as a resident of California, power outages are no death defining incidents and citizens have many tools applicable at their hands to get through those times. As people have said, FEMA acted as quickly as possible. If you expect “wide swaths” of America to be attended to in mere hours then you are living in a dreamland, my friends. And that “largest rescue effort ever” issued by Bush was ONLY a few days late. At the time of Katrina hitting, he was at a promotional event with none other than John McCain. And that’s not a lie.

Bush, when asked about Katrina, said that he would have landed a plane there to see what was going on but did not want to distract the personnel to help and protect him instead of the American people. As if the major blunder he made was not showing up. A confused man who doesn’t even know why people are angry at him.

If you count this as a Katrina, hell, i don’t even know how many Katrinas President Bush had. A city of millions underwater from a hurricane they knew would hit days before with levees they knew would fail, or this? My heart goes out to the people suffering through this, but I’d like to get my news source about what FEMA is doing and how quickly somewhere else than this clearly biased website.

^Comment above me. Amen to that Michael Smith. Find out independently what FEMA is up to, not through this man who clearly hated the president before he ever stepped into office. I can’t wait until something really unfortunate happens. I’m going to wait until Obama REALLY messes up. As for the Bush administration’s real screw-ups, just google it and you’ll find plenty.

By: Micheal A Smith

Micheal A Smith — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:40:24 +0000

Well I wonder how dumb can people get? No matter what happens somebody is going to complain! He is the president! Why or better yet what in the hell is he gonna go in the middle of an ice storm for? Yea Bush came to New Orleans (over a week later). But what was Bush going to do in New Orleans while it was flooding? What has the people complaining down about either? What have you done, did you fly,ride or drive to help? Heck NO! just making things worst by complaining. Or maybe you watched the superbowl also. The fact is you don’t know what the president or fema is doing or have down to assist so SHUT UP!! LET HE WITHOUT SIN OR FAULT CAST THE FIRST STONE!

By: Alaskan Volcanoes and Redneck Ice Storms | The Pink Flamingo

Alaskan Volcanoes and Redneck Ice Storms | The Pink Flamingo — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:35:26 +0000

[...] There is NOT ONE MENTION of the ice storm disaster in Red State America.Â Try My Pet Jawa.Â But – The One (anointed) did do a great and cheerful interview before the Big Game, which thousands of people in Kentucky were unable to watch because they were still without power.Â His daughters, nice and warm and well fed, had friends over on Saturday to play.Â Kids in some parts of Kentucky were trying no to freeze to death, were running out of candles, and had no fresh water. [...]

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:11:29 +0000

Alex- Thousands died? Bullshit. 1500 people died in Louisiana “indirectly” during Katrina, meaning that that murders, drug overdoses and other non-storm related deaths were counted in the tally. Louisiana has more shooting related deaths than Iraq (mostly in New Orleans) and a large population of drug addicts. More than 1500 people lose their life in New Orleans every year, but there are no tears from you for them.

The point is that Bush initiated the largest rescue operation in American history with 30,000 people pulled off of rooftops after Katrina cleared. Obama watched the Superbowl while people are still unaccounted for.

And since I’m Bi-racial like your precious Obama don’t come here and try to race card me. I never said it’s about race, your reaction to these deaths as insignificant i certainly about class (in both senses of the word) and ideology trumping your non-existent humanity. It was one of your friends posting under a different name (from the same IP) that tried to inject race here, so calm yourself.

But “If you feel that this ice storm is being ignored because the people there are white, then you are agreeing that Bush ignored Louisiana because the victims there were Black. Are you saying Bush is racist?” is just asinine. If you think Bush is a racist (which all lefties claim) doesn’t that mean Obama is? Oh wait, that kind of logic doesn’t stand up.

Bush was in New Orleans, Obama’s at a SuperBowl party. Bush activated thousands of FEMA agents, Obama hasn’t even mentioned this crisis. And you didn’t either because you simply don’t care. You didn’t care about Katrina, you just needed a way to attack Bush, and you don’t care about the people who are even now trapped in a house with no food water or heat.

Right now someone is about to die and all you care about is protecting Obama. Doesn’t that say something about you?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:18:53 +0000

The biggest difference between this incident and Katrina is that this Ice storm came and went pretty quickly with no warning. Katrina was a known storm for several days before it hit Louisiana. And when it did millions of people were displaced. thousands of people died. And its not about race unless you want it to be. If you feel that this ice storm is being ignored because the people there are white, then you are agreeing that Bush ignored Louisiana because the victims there were Black. Are you saying Bush is racist? Cause I never though that was a motive, but the way you are painting it I might have been naive to believe that was the case.

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:44:45 +0000

Robert_First of all it’s Rob but that you didn’t catch that is indicative of how little research you do. I have two separate reports linked to and excerpted above show that FEMA has not reacted quickly or well.

42 people are dead and more WILL die soon. That’s O.K. with you because Obama’s in power but in Katrina it wasn’t. Your hypocrisy is amazing. Why isn’t Obama there? Why isn’t the media? Because like the classist you are the deaths of middle Americans is simply something you giggle at while quoting the books you never read to each other in Brooklyn coffee houses.

Hattie-Nice try Moby. Take the race baiting elsewhere. There are plenty of Black dead people in the ice storm.

By: Hattie Barnes

Hattie Barnes — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:23:12 +0000

It’s really okay guys! It’s FEMA, it’s Obama, the Dead and dying are White and poor…FEMA nor Obama can use them so, well, you know, it’s okay!
Yes, I am being facious, but, since President George W Bush was White and got drug over the coals because New Orleans is a Chocolate City…..I just assumed that the opposite is the case here. Obama has admitted that he hates Whitey so how simple is it to allow nature to take it’s course? He will soon (at this rate) have the CHANGE he preached, but, could not voice prior to the Election! Whitey Gone (DEAD) Black In (CONTROL)! WHO IS RACIST? Could it be Liberals, Democrats, The NEW Government, The New First Family in the WHITE HOUSE? ME Believeth so!
WAKE UP DRIVE BY MEDIA! THIS IS PULITZER STUFF AND YOU ARE STILL DANCING WITH GOD KNOWS WHAT. Take a good unbiased look at what you are doing and then start writing real stories! Write about the REAL FIRST FAMILY. Write about the fact that your photographers are NOT allowed to get candid shots of YOUR New Idol, but can only have what he doles out to you. Write about the stupidity he is showing by trying to make peace with Terrorist Groups just so they can come back to make 9/11 look like a minimal practice run!!
I DARE YOU TO DO YOUR UNBIASED JOB AND REPORT THE TRUTH!
I also suggest that any of you who believe in God pray and pray hard for forgiveness while you can….Obama will take you down and stand upon your graves. There is no one who is not expendable once He has reached his goal and you are helping him to reach it FAST! Only then will you see the real Obama…I don’t think he is what you thought he would be. But, he Is YOURS whether you still want him or not!!! May God have Mercy upon your Souls!.