Posted on 09/30/2009 6:14:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
President Obama has declared the U.S. territory of American Samoa a major disaster after an undersea earthquake caused a tsunami and massive flooding that has reportedly killed more than 80 people in the South Pacific Samoan Islands.
The declaration makes federal funding available to people in American Samoa, which has a population of about 65,000 people.
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How long did it take BO to help out Georgia? I know he was TERRIBLY busy and all--golfing and going on David Letterman....
And he sent Joe Biden down there to act like his team gave a ****....but wasn't it a bit longer?
I hear FEMA is being rushed to Samoa...were they rushed to Georgia?
Of course....
Obama would have
Helped Georgia, but didn’t want
To piss off Russia...
IIRC, in the last election American Samoa went for Obamalamadingdong and Georgia went for McCain. 'Nuff said....
Wouldn’t have anything to do with Dole Foods, by chance, would it?
Barack Obama doesn’t care about white people!
Maybe they will get healthcare coverage too!
Don’t worry,response time to disasters in the USA will improve as we move closer to national elections.
Has he visited Georgia yet??
What do you mean he’s in Hopenhagen?
Georgia is an evil state full of racist rednecks. We don’t deserve any help.
Georgia is full of souther white racists..oh wait...no never mind.
Being a bigot can be so complicated
Lets walk instead of run. There were very few follow ups on the Indonesia flood and I recall a huge amount of money went for nothing.
Obama IS the major disaster.
Yeah, there’s hardly any black people in Georgia. It’s almost lily-white.
The Samoans are Americans, too, even if they aren't citizens. I'm glad they're getting help.
You forgot your sarcasm tag. Atlanta is not almost white, nor the state of Georgia.
Doesn’t Botox Nancy have some sort of tuna (Sunkist maybe) operation in Samoa?
I bet America Somoa is one of Obama’s states after the regular 50.
I am glad they’re getting help, too. Don’t misunderstand.
I merely point out BO’s speediness in one and his retarded response in the other.
A lot of people in Georgia were of the wrong color to help.
No, you’re thinking of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.
I agree. My comment was more about BO’s lack of concern for Georgians.
Yes she does....thru her husband.
Delmonte [who owns starkist], not dole...I stand corrected
Obama’s cabinet of Me, Myself, and I, with Rahm the Consigliore, don't follow up on the basics of governing. They want the flash and the glamor and the big programs, but they're not interested in anything else. You can't have a President who doesn't learn to get down to details, like say, a former state governor who was the former mayor of a city.
Bill Clinton was a better president, and I'm grimacing as I type that. Hillary would make a better president. John McCain wouldn't have made these mistakes.
If I could get all the GOP and Conservative candidates in one room for a 15 minute lecture, I would say,
“Governing is in the details.
Leaders go where the problems are and see that the right people solve them.
The trappings of being a leader are perks, not the end.
Read ‘Plunkett of Tammany Hall’ and these biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Shackelton, and write a one-page action plan as your homework.”
Oh yeah, we got Biden a week later. It took forever to get more than the two devastated counties declared. On a 500 year+ domestic flood event.
But, O probably wants to go to Samoa. Us crackers are not fit to host him.
how about the kentucky ice storms last year?? obammy doesn’t care about white people.
Well I wonder when we are going to hear “ President to visit Samoa in wake of disaster” ... anything, anywhere, but in the Oval Office being a PRESIDENT.
American Samoa is actually a Federal jurisdiction. Georgia is not.
He’s obligated to Faleomavaega.
Nov. 2007 — U.S. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega (D — American Samoa) was in Jakarta, Indonesia, where had a private meeting in Jakarta with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Barnabas Suebu the governor for the Indonesian province of Papau. In the meeting, Faleomavaega asked to travel to Obama’s childhood school.
According to our Indonesian sources, “officials” who accompanied Faleomavaega were interested in acquiring any and all documentation or photographs of a young Barry Soetoro for America’s “national archives” and they were offering cash, lots of it. In a show of faith, Barack Obama’s childhood school would be one of the very first beneficiaries of this outpouring receiving thousands of dollars to upgrade the school and for the purchase of computer equipment, thanks in part to the benevolence of this visiting junket.
The challenge of course was securing Indonesian government records potentially damaging to Barack Obama’s candidacy for the U. S. presidency as well as other records pertaining to a young Barry Soetoro and his family wouldn’t be so easy to acquire and secure, and for this, the visitors would need the assistance and cooperation of the Indonesian government.
That said, I live in an area that was destroyed by the ice storm that blew through the Ozarks, killing people here in AR, up in MO, many in KY, we were without power, no water or heat (temps in the single digits) for weeks. I not only never saw a FEMA/fed here to provide water and/or food, but 0bama ignored us completely, he chatted on and on during the Super Bowl pre-game (we had a tiny battery-powered TV, could watch the game since the change to digital had not occurred yet), not a single mention from him or any of the other oh-so-caring talking-heads about concern, "Our hearts and prayers are with the suffering Americans, we hope they are all okay" or some other kindness. Nope. Not a word. My mother out in California had NO IDEA anything had happened to us until she got the note I sent by U.S. mail when that service was finally re-established.
The demographics of these disasters are telling -- I maintain that had the ice storm hit just a bit more north of us, St. Louis and Chicago were frozen solid, they would have had assistance from the American people immediately. The fed stuff again, would have had to wait for a governor's call, but it would have been shown to the country, hearts would react as they always do. No one, save a very few, even knew how hard things were for us here.
Wonder what the budget is for this "non-voting" Democrat Congressman.
IOW - What is the total cost in salary and benefits for an elevator operator in a one-story strip mall?
Top-of-the-hour newsbreak, they just played 0bama with the "Our hearts and prayers for the people of Samoa" line -- Glenn Beck knew what he was looking at.
Well, having been right in the worst part of the damage in W. KY, in the big ice storm, I’d say the local officials, once they recovered from the initial confusion, lack of communications, etc., after the storm, didn’t do too badly.* But, yes, generally we were on our own, and it was a tough few weeks, especially for the more rural areas like ours. Many people near us indeed did not get power for 3 weeks, and even for those who got it back earlier, around here it didn’t necessarily stay on. For quite some time, branches continued coming down out of trees and taking out power lines, and most wooded areas still have many “hangers” waiting to come down.
*Kudos also to local retailers & even Home Depot and Wal-Mart, whose local managers and overall organizations showed just how well a responsible free market can respond in such circumstances.
[A few months later Southern Illinois got their big derecho ... and that generator I got from Home Depot’s emergency shipment a few days after the ice storm (not even marked up!) went up to my Mom’s for several days!!!]
One thing though: I would not describe the ice storm as “blowing through”. It was more like “drip, drip, drip... CRACK!-—CRASH...drip, drip, drip, CRACK!!—CRASH—THUD!!!” It was a magnificent (in a way) testament to how Mother Nature does not need overt violence on her part to achieve great destruction. Kinda like lib policies, you know...
I’ve been watching a number of sources, plus YouTube vids on the Samoan tsunami, and don’t forget a lot of our friends in the Philippines are hurting from the recent storm / major flooding too. Many prayers to be said, still.
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