Friday, October 16, 2009

First visit to New Orleans

"Insisting he's "just getting started," President Barack Obama defended his administration Thursday against complaints from some residents of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast that federal help in recovering from the 2005 disasters hasn't improved much since he took office. . . . As a candidate, Obama criticized former President George W. Bush's response to Katrina, when the government showed up late and unprepared and the Federal Emergency Management Agency became the object of widespread scorn. . . . Obama wanted to use his first visit as president to the Gulf Coast to listen to residents' concerns about the recovery effort."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_new_orleans

Imagine the scandal it would have been if President McCain had waited 9 months to show up in New Orleans, after visiting numerous foreign countries first, and then only stayed for a few hours. Obama spent more time and effort in Copenhagen working on the Chicago Olympic bid.

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