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[LULZ] Bush FEMA Chief from Katrina criticizes Obama for doing too much too soon

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HECKUVA JOB BROWNIE!

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."

Obama declared states of emergency all along East Coast states in the path of Sandy on Sunday, well before the storm hit, allowing federal resources to start flowing where governors thought they would be needed. FEMA and local reposnders were able to pre-position a lot of the material being drawn upon now.

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."

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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Laughable.

#1 SamFisher, Oct 30, 2012

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Reads like it came from The Onion.

#2 Baqui99, Oct 30, 2012
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Embarrassing.

#3 Zboy, Oct 30, 2012
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"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.
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Sounds like something basso or Doc T would say.

#4 mc mark, Oct 30, 2012
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Dude screws up ONE major disaster and he thinks he's an authority on it?

#5 CrazyDave, Oct 30, 2012
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Republicans are such scum.

#6 DimeDropper, Oct 30, 2012
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#8 ktbballplaya, Oct 30, 2012
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Did anyone see the exchange between gov christie and the mayor of atlantic city, the mayor told people to go to shelters in atlantic city and gov christie called him a rouge mayor

#9 pgabriel, Oct 30, 2012
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pgabriel said: ↑

Did anyone see the exchange between gov christie and the mayor of atlantic city, the mayor told people to go to shelters in atlantic city and gov christie called him a rouge mayor
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Rouge mayor? I guess Christie has issues. Most would have said rogue mayor.

(Sorry... couldn't resist.)

#10 rimrocker, Oct 30, 2012
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rogue is the droid you're looking for, pgabba.

#11 thegary, Oct 30, 2012
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rimrocker said: ↑

Rouge mayor? I guess Christie has issues. Most would have said rogue mayor.

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baton rogue

sorry, anyway christie wanted the city completely evacuated

#12 pgabriel, Oct 30, 2012
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beat me to it,
rimsensical

#13 thegary, Oct 30, 2012

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Perhaps in the context of planning for multiple hypothetical disasters or with limited resources, that's probably a fair statement. Possibly in terms of rescue personnel, you probably don't know what kind of hours or overtime you're looking at and might want to commit those resources to early on. I just don't know enough to criticize here.

#14 Dairy Ashford, Oct 30, 2012
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rimrocker said: ↑

Rouge mayor? I guess Christie has issues. Most would have said rogue mayor.

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Christie actually told the people to evacuate and the mayor told them not to. He then told them to go to shelters. Then the state had to go rescue people that didn't evacuate.

#15 justtxyank, Oct 30, 2012
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This is like Arnold Schwarzenegger giving someone marriage advice

#16 ktbballplaya, Oct 30, 2012
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SamFisher said: ↑

HECKUVA JOB BROWNIE!

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Interestingly, Chris Christie, who actually is involved in trying to deal with the aftermath, says Obama's response has been "outstanding". http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...a-outstanding-in-response-to-hurricane-sandy/

Who should we believe?

#17 A_3PO, Oct 30, 2012
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This is not the time to remind America that you exist, Michael Brown. I mean, is Obama paying you to do this or what?

#18 Carl Herrera, Oct 30, 2012

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You can't make this stuff up folks. His last quote is golden

#19 David Stern, Oct 30, 2012
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Further, isn't Brownie's criticism doing too much too soon? Isn't he normally more willing to wait things out?

#20 CrazyDave, Oct 31, 2012

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