Posted on 08/26/2015 10:41:25 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Eight years ago as a senator running for president, Barack Obama visited New Orleans, a city still battered and broken two years after Hurricane Katrina, and made the kind of extravagant promises that candidates often make to get elected.
“America failed the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast long before that failure showed up on our television sets,” Mr. Obama said at the time. “America failed them again during Katrina. We cannot — we must not — fail for a third time.”
He promised to reconstruct the city’s health care infrastructure with new facilities and incentives for doctors, said he would rebuild schools and provide local children with better educations than ever, and vowed to rebuild the local economy.
On Thursday, Mr. Obama will return to New Orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and face the kind of reckoning presidents must confront near the end of their tenure: How did reality stack up against his campaign promises?
Many of Mr. Obama’s promises have been fulfilled, according to political analysts and lawmakers in both parties, although he can take only partial credit.
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Anyone else notice how the media have decided to push the anniversary of Katrina??? This is just one of many stories in that theme I have seen.
I still can’t believe 10 years later, how we all witnessed the mainstream media and Democrats working together, to politicize a natural disaster.
Dick Cheney was secretly running Obama’s PROMISE MACHINE.
August is a slow news time. And it is the 10th anniversary. We like those “round” numbers.
RECKONING??? RECKONING??? Mitch Landrieu is already practicing his pucker, the mostly black city is ready to put the Raghead in Chief’s statue up in place of Andrew Jackson and he will be schmoozed and worshipped by the ignorant, low class, liberal partiers here. New Orleans is TAW- temporarily above water. Nature WILL reclaim it as swamp and all the money being poured into the hole that is the city cannot stop that.
Good job brownie.
He just wants to remind everyone that it’s still all Bush’s fault.
Under the umbrella - Obama is a sissyboy
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for such purposes. So by breaking such promises Obama was actually defending the Constitution. But don’t tell him that. It would spoil his day.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Remember that on Jan. 20, 2009, the minute Obama was sworn in, the White House website immediately put up an item attacking Bush for “broken promises” in connection with Katrina.
Real quote from high school classmate of mine on Facebook:
“Tenth anniversary of Katrina. Shame, America. Shame.”
I am always amazed at the left’s ability to frame an event. The only thing I’m ashamed of is how much money we threw at New Orleans after the storm.
Obama to Face Reckoning
Not likely.
When has this AH ever faced any kind of reckoning for anything?
“Obama to face reckoning”
Hahahahahahaha!
Thanks for the laugh.
Obama gives Teflon a whole new meaning.
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