Obama the Weak

""This is what a leader looks like," wrote Bryan Preston of Pajamas Media of Mr. Netanyahu's "very impressive" speech to Congress. "Not a word of it will have to be 'clarified' or walked back in a day or two. It will not be 'misunderstood,' as President Obama claims his speech of last week has been. I have had many friends on the Republican side tell me 'if only we had a candidate like that.' "

Bibi Netanyahu can't run for president of the United States. But he showed those who are running how to get the better of Mr. Obama: Talk straight. Talk substance. Go directly at him.

While Congress was applauding Mr. Netanyahu, Mr. Obama was showing us what leadership isn't. On a visit intended more to advance his re-election campaign than the interests of the United States, Mr. Obama played Ping-Pong with British Prime Minister David Cameron, signed the wrong date in the distinguished visitors' log at Westminster Abbey and botched a toast to the Queen.

The fluffiness of the agenda didn't prevent Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron -- pygmies who imagine themselves giants -- from comparing themselves to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl ... 10029.html

Meanwhile I seem to recall that one of, if not the most, damaging out breaks of tornadoes ripped through the mid-west and south-east portions of our nation. Barry got around to paying a visit to Joplin, MO today. I won't say I know all there is to know about politics but it seems to me that someone on his staff would have pointed out that it was time to break off the trip and head home. Leave someone else behind to represent the US at the G8.

Yeah....it really was incredibly dumb of Obama to allow a tornado to hit while he was out of the country. He needs to have a talk with Mother Nature. If, however, he had rushed home to visit the area, he would have been criticized for using it as a photo op for his campaign. The man will never make you guys happy.

archer wrote: Yeah....it really was incredibly dumb of Obama to allow a tornado to hit while he was out of the country. He needs to have a talk with Mother Nature. If, however, he had rushed home to visit the area, he would have been criticized for using it as a photo op for his campaign. The man will never make you guys happy.

I'll take "What was the Left's reaction to Katrina?" for a thousand Alex. I seem to recall something about people on the ground in the Big Easy saying things like "George Bush hates black people" and a few whack-o's going on about weather modification and blaming the DoD for causing the storm and even targeting New Orleans on purpose. Making a prompt visit to New Orleans and many subsequent visits sure paid off for W during the election too!

I'll take "lunatic-fringe conservatives" for $1000, Alex...

Refresh my memory here.. are you saying GW was out of the country too when Katrina hit? People in FL might take exception to that comparison.

LadyJazzer wrote: I'll take "lunatic-fringe conservatives" for $1000, Alex...

Scathing, witty, and really original too...

A quick search of the tubes of the Internets found this:

On the morning of Friday, August 26, at 10 am CDT (1500 UTC), Katrina had strengthened to a Category 3 storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Later that afternoon, the NHC realized that Katrina had yet to make the turn toward the Florida Panhandle and ended up revising the predicted track of the storm from the panhandle to the Mississippi coast.[8][9] The NHC issued a hurricane watch for southeastern Louisiana, including the New Orleans area at 10 am CDT Saturday, August 27. That afternoon the NHC extended the watch to cover the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines as well as the Louisiana coast to Intracoastal City.

The United States Coast Guard began prepositioning resources in a ring around the expected impact zone and activated more than 400 reservists. On August 27, it moved its personnel out of the New Orleans region prior to the mandatory evacuation.[10] Aircrews from the Aviation Training Center, in Mobile, staged rescue aircraft from Texas to Florida.[11] All aircraft were returning back towards the Gulf of Mexico by the afternoon of August 29. Air crews, many of whom lost their homes during the hurricane, began a round-the-clock rescue effort in New Orleans, and along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines.[12]

President of the United States George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in selected regions of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi on Saturday, the 27th, two days before the hurricane made landfall.[13] That same evening, the NHC upgraded the storm alert status from hurricane watch to hurricane warning over the stretch of coastline between Morgan City, Louisiana to the Alabama-Florida border, 12 hours after the watch alert had been issued, and also issued a tropical storm warning for the westernmost Florida Panhandle.[2]

During video conferences involving the president on August 28 and 29, the director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield, expressed concern that Katrina might push its storm surge over the city's levees and flood walls. In one conference, he stated, "I do not think anyone can tell you with confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not, but that's obviously a very, very great concern."[14]

On Sunday, August 28, as the sheer size of Katrina became clear, the NHC extended the tropical storm warning zone to cover most of the Louisiana coastline and a larger portion of the Florida Panhandle. The National Weather Service's New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued a vividly worded bulletin predicting that the area would be "uninhabitable for weeks" after "devastating damage" caused by Katrina, which at that time rivaled the intensity of Hurricane Camille.[15] "On Sunday, August 28, President Bush spoke with Governor Blanco to encourage her to order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans." (Per page 235 of Special Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs)[16]

Voluntary and mandatory evacuations were issued for large areas of southeast Louisiana as well as coastal Mississippi and Alabama. About 1.2 million residents of the Gulf Coast were covered under a voluntary or mandatory evacuation order.[2]

And your point is?

Make that "Bat-sh** crazy conservatives" for $1000, Alex...