With Hurricane Sandy battering the East Coast only a week before the election, President Obama has a lot riding on the performance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which he pledged to improve during his campaign four years ago.
Hours before Sandy made landfall on Monday, Obama declared in a news conference at the White House that he is “confident that we’re ready” for the massive storm now inflicting widespread damage along the East Coast. Obama praised FEMA for working in concert with state and local officials to stock food, water, and generators for distribution as needed.
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Obama is going to offer $1 million (or is it a Billion?) in aid to every resident of NC, VA, and FL. With your taxpayer money. Every swing state. RIGHT ON CUE. As Rahm Emmanuel would say: "Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste". .. Obama will then demand that Congress put up the money NOW. Before the election.
Globe says" FEMA’s disaster relief work can bolster a president’s leadership credentials or make his administration appear inept. The agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 delivered a blow to President George W. Bush’s reputation for crisis management and became a campaign talking point for Obama" But the dishonest Globe DOESN'T talk about that Obama's OPPOSITION to Hurricane Katrina aid. Barack Obama was caought on video using hightly racial remarks. The conservative Daily Caller web site released a full tape of then Senator Obama speaking to a group of black ministers at Hampton University in Virginia back in 2007. Playing to that crowd, Mr. Obama brought up unfairness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He cited the Stafford Act, which requires areas that receive federal assistance to pay 10 percent of what they use. And Obama said, in a FAKE Southern accent" What's happening down in New Orleans? Where is your dollar? Where is your Stafford Act money? It makes no sense. It tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out. It tells me that somehow the people down in New Orleans, they don't care about as much. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/10/04/bill-oreilly-president-obama-talking-race-and-class-provocative-way##ixzz2An6dOpgl However, when Florida was hit by Hurricane Andrew and New York City by the terror attack on 9/11, the Stafford Act was waived. But in New Orleans, after Katrina, President Bush waived the Act for just 60 days angering Mr. Obama and others. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/10/04/bill-oreilly-president-obama-talking-race-and-class-provocative-way##ixzz2An62pw4j
Romney stated,in 2011 and recently reiterated, that Federal FEMA funding is immoral. He also deregulated the compounding Pharmacy involved with Meneingitis, the one supported by Brown. In this age of weather related catastrophe's we really can't afford the anti-government and anti-regulatory fervor of Repubs.
Romney wants to dismantle FEMA, it's clear he said that. Another flip-flop.
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