CNN: Obama defends natural disaster experience

I agree but I didn't think that is what we were slinging poo about this time

 

i guess you decided to ignore my post above that answered your question. a bit of denial in ya?

 

Besides offering you the opportunity to post useless threads on a daily basis?

 

Dude, the "uh"s are there because asking him to talk about Palin is asking him to step into a minefield.

That's one of the brilliant things about McCain choosing her. It's hard to criticize her and look noble. Does Obama really want to rag on her frontier background? Well, yes, but how can it not look snotty.

And the question? How is ANYBODY who has not been: (1) president, (2) head of FEMA, or (3) governor of a southern, coastal state, supposed to have hurricane relief and repair experience? What a stupid question.

So, they're asking him to step on the Palin landmine, while wearing the stilts of a stupid question, and he's being incredibly careful, as would anyone with a brain.

(sigh; edited for those with reading comprehension and automatic negative spin problems)

 

This is despicable. It is morally reprehensible to make fun of a BABY with Down's. The lowest of low.

 

Your post was fine and your points were on point imo, but this stretch was just plain dumb.

 

He's making fun of the interviewer.

Swing and a miss by Jorge Bambino.

 

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Be for real. Obama = Chicago
Sarah Palin = Below



Get real, she is as TJ would say it, "in over (her) head..."

 

http://www.obama08-wa.com/?q=here-barack-obamas-record-rebuilding-after-hurricane-katrina

Here's his entire Katrina-related history:

# Sept. 2, 2005: Obama holds press conference urging Illinoisans to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
# Sept. 5, 2005: Obama goes to Houston to visit evacuees with Presidents Clinton and Bush.
# Sept. 7, 2005: Obama introduces bill to create a national emergency family locator system
# Sept. 8, 2005: Obama introduces bill to create a National Emergency Volunteers Corps.
# Sept. 8, 2005: Obama co-sponsors the Katrina Emergency Relief Act of 2005 introduced by Senator Harry Reid
# Sept. 8, 2005: Obama co-sponsors the Hurricane Katrina Bankruptcy Relief and Community Protection Act of 2005 introduced by Senator Russ Feingold
# Sept. 12, 2005: Obama introduces legislation requiring states to create an emergency evacuation plan for society's most vulnerable
# Sept. 15, 2005: Obama issues public response to President Bush's speech about Gulf Coast rebuilding.
# Sept. 21, 2005: Obama co-sponsors bill to establish a Katrina commission to investigate response to the disaster introduced by Hillary Clinton
# Sept. 21, 2005: Obama appears on NPR to discuss the role of poverty in Hurricane Katrina.
# Sept. 22, 2005: Obama and Coburn's Hurricane Katrina financial oversight bill unanimously passes Senate committee.
# Sept. 22, 2005: Obama's amendment requiring evacuation plans unanimously passes Senate committee.
# Sept. 28, 2005: Obama and Coburn issue statement about the need for a Chief Financial Officer to oversee the financial mismanagement and suspicious contracts occurring in the reconstruction process
# Sept. 29, 2005: Obama and Coburn investigate possible FEMA refusal of free cruise ship offer
# Oct. 6, 2005: Obama and Coburn issue statement on FEMA Decision to re-bid Katrina contracts
# Oct. 6, 2005: Obama co-sponsors Gulf Coast Infrastructure Redevelopment and Recovery Act of 2005.
# Oct. 21, 2005: Obama releases statement decrying the extension of FEMA director, Michael "Brownie" Brown's contract. Obama calls Brown's contract extension, "unconscionable."
# Nov. 17, 2005: Obama and Coburn introduce legislation asking FEMA to immediately re-bid all Katrina reconstruction contracts.
# Feb. 1, 2006: Obama gives Senate floor speech on his legislation to help children affected by Hurricane Katrina
# Feb. 2, 2006: Obama introduces legislation to help low-income children affected by Hurricane Katrina
# Feb. 23, 2006: Obama issues statement responding to a White House report on Hurricane Katrina. Obama noted that the top two recommendations that the report had for the federal government were initiatives he had been working on since immediately after the storm hit. Obama called the administration's response "delinquent."
# May 2, 2006: Obama gives speech about no-bid contracts in Hurricane Katrina reconstruction
# May 4, 2006: Obama's legislation to end no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction passed the Senate.
# June 15, 2006: Obama and Coburn announce legislation to require amendment to create competitive bidding for Hurricane Katrina reconstruction for federal contracts over $500,000. Although it passed previously, the language was stripped in conference.
# June 15, 2006: Obama releases podcast about his pending Katrina reconstruction legislation in the Senate.
# June 16, 2006: Obama and Coburn get no-bid Hurricane Katrina reconstruction amendment into Department of Defense authorization bill.
# July 14, 2006: Obama and Coburn's legislation to end abuse of no-bid contracts passes senate as amendment to Department of Defense authorization bill.
# August 11, 2006: Obama visits Xavier University in New Orleans to give Commencement address
# August 14, 2006: Obama and Coburn ask FEMA to address ballooning no-bid contracts for Gulf Coast reconstruction
# Sept. 29, 2006: Obama and Coburn legislation to prevent abuse of no-bid contracts in the wake of disaster passes Senate to be sent to President's desk to become law.
# Feb. 2007-Present: As Obama begins his Presidential campaign he references Katrina as a part of his stump speech as he travels around the country in his familiar line, "That we are not a country which preaches compassion and justice to others while we allow bodies to float down the streets of a major American city. That is not who we are."
# June 20, 2007: Obama co-sponsors Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007 introduced by Senator Chris Dodd.
# July 27, 2007: Obama and colleagues get a measure in the Homeland Security bill that will investigate FEMA trailers that may contain the toxic chemical, formaldehyde.
# Aug. 26, 2007: Obama outlines a detailed Hurricane Katrina recovery plan.
# December 18, 2007: Obama calls on President Bush to protect affordable housing in New Orleans
# February 16, 2008: Obama releases statement on toxic Gulf Coast trailers

 

Is that the leprechaun video?

 

With this and New Yorker's post on all of Obama's actions regarding Katrina basso's thread has long since outlived any usefulness.

 

Fixed

 

So who is going to apologize for ripping on the OP?



The uh's have it.



UHWNED

 

Who cares if he says uh? I mean who really gives a s---? Is that the best you guys can do?

 

Make em say UHHHH!!!!

 

The main point here is this:


Obama has NO experience running anything at an executive level.

A campaign, with campaign managers doing it for you with use of a $36,000,000/mo. budget does not count.



Make 'em say Uhhhhhhhhhh! (Uhhhhhhhhhh) Na, na, na, na... (na, na, na, na...)

STUMPED

I'm Barack Obama, and I approve... uh... not much actually. Because I've been too busy campaigning the... uh... entire time Palin's been a governor, and I have... uh... nothing to say. But, uh... we spend a ton on the campaign.

 

couldn't disagree more. In fact running a campaign is the biggest executive undertaking for both McCain and Obama. Obama made the point rather clearly. The more employees he has working for him and helping him, the more leadership he needs, and the more like being the actual president the job is. It is indeed executive experience more so than the Senate or House.

The only argument you seem to have against the points Obama makes about how many employees he has and what his budget is, seems only to deal with the point that he says "uh..."

 

Yet you continue to make fun of the 'uh' I see.