Did the media overhype the storm? Of course. Will the politicians take all sorts of credit? Of Course. Does that change the fact that there is unprecedented flooding, billions of dollars in damage and millions of people without power? No, it doesn’t. Pay no attenetion to the media and the politicians, put your knives away, and say a prayer for those who need them.
correct. If the media and the politicians did not prepare to the max for the worst and then the worst occurred, there would have been hell to pay and justifiably so. It was the right thing to do.
I’m with you cumbo. Of COURSE this storm was overhyped and Team Obama is trying to turn it into some sort of photo opportunity. However, there are hundreds of thousands of people without power in Maryland and in many other states. It surely wasn’t the storm of the century, but some areas took a very hard hit from this storm.
It’s disgusting to see Team Obama try to spin this into showing that he’s a leader. He couldn’t lead a two man parade.
We have all said a prayer for those in the path of this storm. Many of us did it days ago! I don’t think we should let our opinions of the whole hype and coming political grandstanding for more tax payer money be ‘put up’ at all though!
Only a liberal would try to shut everyone up by claiming there are ‘victims’ and we should just stop talking! Good grief..of course it is sad that there are victims of this storm system, but let’s put it in perspective for cryin out loud! A few of them were killed in car wrecks and one was likely drunk. We sometimes lose that many people in Texas everytime there is a bad thunderstorm system that moves through the state and we have been suffering terrible electrical disruptions on millions of people all summer.
We need to get ready, because Obama and the democrats are going to try and use this run of the mill tropical storm to ram more ‘stimulus’ type spending down our throats because they didn’t budget enough money for FEMA disaster relief. They SPENT IT ALL ON NONSENSE AND CRONIES and now we are just entering the hurricane season with no money in the coffers (or so they say)!
Obama and his entire executive branch SHOULD be ridiculed and brought up for congressional hearings about all of the damn money that has just gone missing since he took office!
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