Posted on 08/25/2012 6:38:11 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Yes this is a vanity and yes everything can change again in 12 hours...HOWEVER...BE REMINDED OF THIS QUOTE FROM TEAM OBAMA!!!
"Never let a good crisis go to waste"
The perfect storm might be developing for Obama as we speak as models for Tropical Storm soon to be Hurricane Isaac have shifted directly towards where?
New Orleans.
Take a moment and think about this scenario.
Team Obama with HHS and FEMA get together and make sure they do everything Team Bush didn't do in the days and hours leading up to Katrina. The week of the hurricane as it ravages the Gulf coast...Obama rides into town and saves the day with his army of loving media scum riding in tow to capture every shot and picture of Obama's government "hard at work" for the American people.
What's next?
A DNC convention to show images and talk up the heroic acts of Team Obama and before you know it...polls swing and shift and Obama is up 10 points in national polls because we know the average American is only interested in their short term memory and who was a hero to them lately and who is taking care of them and saving the day.
Get ready...because if these models indeed keep West into Louisiana....Team Romney has a bigger problem on its hands than a poor speaking Congressman out of Missouri.
Remember...at the end of the day...it is all about the media and all about their control and what they can do with images and words.
I remember Andrew, as well. I visited the area a year later, and downed trees were growing sideways.
Katrina had a 35 foot surge. The deadliest storm before that was Camille, which had an 18 foot surge. Not to mention that it took 24 hours for Katrina to clear the area.
The aftermath of Katrina looked like a nuke had been dropped on the entire MS coast. They haven’t fully recovered yet.
BTW, in MS, almost half of the state was declared a disaster area. In my hometown, 150 miles inland, they had curfews and were without power for quite a while, and that county was declared a national disaster area.
I remember a thread you posted about the fatalities. I’ll leave it at that.
I am glad you remember the thread because I remain in contact with rescue team members who were there who swear on stacks of bibles that they were tying bodies to stop signs and heading back into neighborhoods spray painting concrete slabs where homes were in Bay St. Louis and Hancock County etc...the majority of the individuals they found had no i.d. on them and were likely illegals who wouldn’t go to shelters in fear of arrest. They also had witnesses who saw bodies being swept out to sea.
I was a reporter at the time and was pretty wired in to various law enforcement agencies and they told me that a body couldn’t legally be counted as a certified death by the state without an identification of it. A bunch of bodies were never claimed and were either buried or cremated and that was that. The same thing happened in Naranja in South Dade in Miami during Andrew.
I have no argument stating that Mississippi was hands down the worst hit of the 4 states that had their run in with Katrina.
The same thing happened in Naranja in South Dade in Miami during Andrew.
This hypothetical is totally unrealistic. It presumes that the Obama Regime could do what needs to be done in an emergency. In the real world, their far left ideology would prevent Obama's people from getting the job done. It would be more important that the contracts go to favored businessmen than that the food get to those in need. It would be more important that unions get the work than that the work actually get done where needed. In reality, a strike on New Orleans would be a disaster for Obama's people because it would put their ongoing disaster on public display.
Interesting point. Recall that during the BP Oil Spill, the administration reacted by sending... lawyers to BP to get payments, not actual spill control workers. Obama only knows one song.
This time, NO MAJOR bump from this storm. Any “bump” that comes out from it will be very short and temporary.
It is the ECONOMY still. No bump from this one for Obama.
You got it!
I heard that caller.
The conservative Black voices that have left the Dem Plantation are few and far between. The education system just perpetuates this and then they wonder why the Black education statistics are so lousy.
I was responding to somwone who was comparing it to Katrina. My answer should have been more complete.
There is no way this hurricane can approach the size and energy of Katrina.
The Gulf was about 5 degrees warmer for Katrina than for Isaac. That is an amazing amount energy difference.
I hoping to see Looter guy endorse Mitt Romenry LOL! that be cool ROFL
Anadarko Petroleum has just ordered total evacuations of its platforms in the gomex.....3,800 workers being sent home. Gas prices should be a dime higher come next weekend.
And models coming in even further west. Getting concerning, as this track could mean even a weak hurricane could do tremendous NOLO damage.
Some of my Wife’s Family are in Natchez, MS. They are prepping for whatever comes their way.
I don’t think they will be getting any of those $2000 FEMA Debit Cards though. LOL
The problem with the positive scenario for Obama is that they will never get their act together and handle a second Katrina any better than Bush. So, I think it could be a devastating event for him. Indeed, I suspect it will be the locals who do a better job of handling the hurricane — not the Feds. Now Jindal is governor of Louisiana and it will be an opportunity for him to shine.
Bull market for Indiana.
We’ll build another sh!tload of FEMA trailers.
That be funny if Obama and Michelle did LOL!
That be funny if Obama and Michelle did LOL!
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