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powergirl

(2,393 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 04:49 PM Oct 2012

Michael "Heckuva Job" Brownie criticzes Obama's Response to Hurricane Sandy (NOT FROM THE ONION)

No, this is not from The Onion.

I'm sure Romney enjoys this clown chiming in!



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"Michael Brown, the former FEMA director infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, told a local paper that President Barack Obama acted too quickly in mobilizing relief for Superstorm Sandy.

"Here's my concern," Brown told Denver's Westword on Monday, suggesting that the official response was actually making people complacent. "It's premature [when] the brunt of the storm won't happen until later this afternoon."

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Obama also held a press conference warning people to pay careful attention to the storm.

"This is a serious and big storm," Obama said after meeting with FEMA officials and talking to governors Sunday. "And my first message is to all the people across the Eastern seaboard, Mid-Atlantic, going north, that you need to take this very seriously."

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b]Brown suggested Obama was just trying to look good.
"He probably figured Sunday was a good day to do a press conference," Brown said in his interview."


"He also thought Obama's response contrasted poorly to the president's response to the deadly attacks of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which the U.S. ambassador and three others died. "One thing he's gonna be asked is, why did he jump on this so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in ... Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas?" Brown said."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/michael-brown-obama-hurricane-sandy_n_2044971.html



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Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
2. Oh I thought that was a joke...
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 04:51 PM
Oct 2012

Saw some comments about this in other threads. I thought they were pulling a funny. Well I snorted anyway cause it sounded #parody #barely.

Pisces

(5,599 posts)
3. This is unbelievable. It has to be a joke. Republicans want to get rid of FEMA, cut emergency funds,
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 04:51 PM
Oct 2012

cut firefighters and police, and deny climate change ???? How can anyone vote for these dinosaurs? They need to be trounced on
Nov. 6th.

liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
5. This piece of shit murderer.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 04:53 PM
Oct 2012

Fuck him with the thousands of empty corpses that would have still been human beings if not for this callous, incompetent fuckwit. I seriously want to punch this shitmaggot in the face.

tblue37

(65,394 posts)
7. A wiser man would not want to invite such a comparison.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 04:59 PM
Oct 2012
I bet the Republicans are cringing at his deciision to jog people's memories.
 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
10. He's right, one shouldnt do anything until there are clear pictures
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:07 PM
Oct 2012

OF BLOATED DEAD BODIES FLOATING IN A RUINED CITY.

FU BROWNIE.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
11. Like anyone gives a flying f@$% what "Katrina" Brown thinks.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:13 PM
Oct 2012

He's got an awful lot of nerve rearing his smug persons again after allowing 1300 people to die.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
12. He's right
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:34 PM
Oct 2012

We could have had thousands of people washed out to sea like Katrina victims. What a missed opportunity.

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)
14. Because allowing people to stew a few days in flood waters
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 08:16 PM
Oct 2012

is always such a great choice.

The difference between this and Benghazi is that we can actually mobilize help in time to make a difference in New Jersey. We could have mobilized help in time to make a difference in NOLA, we had the info, we new the attack (of Katrina) was imminent, we had a study that predicted the failures and likely death toll (stunningly accurate as it turned out), and we had the personel and suppies in country to do the job. He just did not do it. The "complacent" bed ridden elderly died as a result. He did eventually manage to mobilize the reefer trucks to serve as temporary morgues.

STFU Brownie

 

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)
15. How is it possible to act too quickly on relief?
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 09:13 PM
Oct 2012

I understand it seems really foreign to Brownie, but ...

tanyev

(42,564 posts)
17. So, Michael, just how many deaths do there need to be before it's the right time to get started?
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 09:16 PM
Oct 2012

Is that was you were waiting for during Katrina?

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