BBC video shows Obama filling sandbags while Bush dines with Queen

[Shoelace]

"Obama digs in at flood zone" is the header of BBC's "Americas Frontpage" while Bush has tea with the queen.
I think Olbermann would love to see this video, maybe show it on his show.
The Daily Show might like it too?
What a difference between this video and Bush's response to Katrina!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7455335.stm

[kentuck]

1. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Once again.

[aquart]

2. Never mind the BBC. SHOW IT HERE.

Show that a Democratic administration will not abandon our people, our cities, our future.

[Shoelace]

9. I just sent it to KO, here's his email addy

if any of them can stop talking about Russert to fit it in. If enough folks send that video to newsies, maybe we WILL see it here in the US?

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Shoelace]

16. also just sent it to the Daily Show

and if enough of us send Stewart this with a note comparing this to Bush's Katrina, I'd hope he shows it.

http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml
(be sure to select "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart")

[EFerrari]

3. What a *smart* campaign.

This is why Obama will have two terms.

:woohoo:

[jgraz]

4. Where is McSame during all this?

Having more birthday cake?

[riderinthestorm]

5. His "campaign" issued a sympathy statement. nt

[MzNov]

12. and praying n/t

[jgraz]

14. Oh great. I feel better already.

[MzNov]

15. I knew you would.

[Shoelace]

18. he's busy planning a fundraiser with rich Texas oilmen

a little controversial but hey, wtf do the Republicans care.

McCain Texas Fundraiser Back On, Sans Oilman
Updated 4:37 p.m.
By Juliet Eilperin
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) has decided to hold a fundraiser initially sponsored by a controversial Texas oilman later in the summer at a different venue, according to an aide who asked not to be identified.

McCain had planned to hold a joint fundraiser with the Republican National Committee on Monday at the Midland, Tex., home of Clayton Williams, who ran for governor of his state in 1990. But after reporters from The Washington Post and ABC inquired Friday about a remark Williams made comparing rape to bad weather -- "As long as it's inevitable, you might as well lie back and enjoy it" -- the campaign cancelled the fundraiser. Williams has apologized for the remarks.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/15/mccain_texas_fundraiser_back_o.html

[jgraz]

19. Did he tell Iowans to just "lie back and enjoy it"?

:puke:

[hisownpetard]

22. Ya know, the least McCain could do is send those guys filling the sandbags a couple cases of beer...

[jgraz]

24. Sorry, he vetoed the beer

[hisownpetard]

25. Well, then, let Cindy send it. McCain said that he and Cindy were standing "at the ready" to help.

So, there ya go...

[jgraz]

27. Tell Cindy that they're filling the sandbags with Percocet.

[hisownpetard]

28. No, doofus - it was Vicodin. Percocet is kids' play!!

[residentfan]

38. Cindy can't be trusted with the beer

She'd probably be found face down in a sand dune surrounded by empty cans.

[ColbertWatcher]

39. Admiral McCombover would not respond unless...

...people targeted their roof messages to his "demographic"

Using such phrases as "Home of Beer Heiress, Please Help!"

[Phred42]

6. Katrina reprise: Becareful what you ask for.

Katrina reprise: Becareful what you ask for.
IOWA has been DROWNING for 4 DAYS...
Bush is having TEA with the QUEEN,
Condi & Cheney are MIA,
McCain issued a statement expressing sympathy for the flood victims.
Obama picked up a shovel.
Republicans in Iowa have Nothing to Complain about.
It's too bad they had to take others down with them

[lame54]

10. I made a similar posts ripping on Iowa as a red state...

and was corrected that they actually are, except for 2004(where foul play was suspected), blue
http://www.270towin.com/states/Iowa

[MercutioATC]

7. "If I was President, I'd be mobilizing federal aid. I'm not the President.I don't get to do that yet

Since the President is busy having tea with the Queen of England, I thought I'd at least help fill sandbags."

[gordianot]

8. I will be shocked if this is shown on any American media outlets.

All we have left is the internet.

[Lisa0825]

30. I was drifting off to sleep and heard it on TV.

It was either CNN or MSNBC... probably CNN since MSNBC was still on the Russert marathon. They didn't compare it to Bush's current activities, but they did specifically mention Obama filling sandbags.

[Shoelace]

34. wow, great news! prolly was CNN, they've been giving Obama good press lately

thanks God since Faux News's "Hannity's America" blasted Michelle Obama intimating she's a traitor for seeing anything wrong with this country. I couldn't stand to watch it more than a few minutes.:grr:

[Shoelace]

11. another DUer posted this video of Obama filling sandbags

and it's very similar to the other one but send them both to Olbermann:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06/of-floods-and-p.html

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

To send to the Daily Show, be sore to select "The Daily show with Jon Stewart" on the dropdown list here at this link (I just sent it to them):

http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml

[MzNov]

13. Our tax dollars at work. Not for flood victims--for the Bushs' European Vacation

can they keep him there and prosecute for war crimes? No need to return, thanks Europe.

[Shoelace]

17. and where's FEMA???

well, they have water on the way they say. Field offices are going to be set up, they say. Yet, nobody has seen them yet. Maybe they are better off without FEMA but keep those receipts and ID just in case they do decide to show.

[MzNov]

20. maybe FEMA is in Europe with chucklenuts...

[hisownpetard]

23. Is Laura with him?

[Shoelace]

29. of course! She had her travel trailer shipped all over Europe too

couldn't find a picture of it but saw it on the news. Here they are with the Prime Minister:



Meanwhile in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

[hisownpetard]

21. Bush dines with the Queen? Wonder if she gave him hot dogs, or hamburgers.

[FrenchieCat]

26. Here's a longer piece of Obama that day....along with him thank some of those who showed up to help!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x147795

[Shoelace]

31. ah, that's the best video yet! Get on that YouTube site and post a comment

there weren't any comments yet so I posted the first one. We DUers need to show our support there for that video and what he did to bolster up those folks who have worked so long and hard to save their community.
Thanks FrenchieCat!!:hi:

[stillcool]

36. Thanks FrenchieCat

I have to start stalking you..you always have the goods!

[Initech]

32. And yet we're the party that's out of touch with America.

There couldn't be anyone more out of touch with America than the Jackass-In-Chief.

[BlooInBloo]

33. Now I've never been President before but....

I'm pretty sure I'd be on the first plane home if something like this happened.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. Bush has governed over a string of Katrinas

The lack of attention paid to the warnings of a terrorist act in 2001, the intention to allow hedge funds to remain unregulated which contributed to the housing bubble and financial crisis, the willingness to the let the U.S. dollar disintegrate and its role in the gas crisis. I'm still nervously looking over my shoulder for the next crisis, as I'm sure Bush just can't stand leaving office without one more major fuck-up on his record.

[galledgoblin]

37. just needed Obama to say to the crowd of onlookers at the end there

"what are you all doing standing around?" and to then point to the shovels and the bags. then that would have been an absolutely perfect op! as it was, it should shame McCain and the republicans into angry gibberish for the rest of the week.

[ColbertWatcher]

40. We already know what the angry gibberish will consist of...

...of course he's helping out, Muslims are supposed to do charity work!

He's enslaving a white man to hold the sandbag for him!

You can tell it's a Hollywood soundstage, look in the background the light is all wrong, etc.

He's only doing it to make everyone else look bad!

That's all he did was two shovelfuls and then he was back sitting in the shade drinking a 40.

Why didn't he do that during Katrina?

And on and on...