Obama reasssures nation about the worsening global Ebola threat.
Tells Americans he will bring foreigners with Ebola to US for treatment.
Posted on 03/01/2020 2:14:23 PM PST by Liz
It's not often that a White House appointee gets mocked on both "Saturday Night Live" and a major daily newspaper before he makes his first public appearance. But Obama's hand-picked Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain's low-profile first week has become another attack point for a White House struggling to show it's on top of the global Ebola crisis.
Klain was seen once, in a photo op on his first day, with health officials from the CCD and NIH — and Obama himself. The White House has declined to give details about his activities, especially what role he played to keep the nation calm about the risk posed by healthcare workers returning from Ebola-stricken West Africa.
Klain, 53, is a lawyer and political insider who previously served as chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore and left the White House in 2011 to help AOL co-founder Steve Case oversee his holdings.
The White House has tried to temper expectations that Klain will emerge as a regular voice on Ebola. He might do the occasional briefing or interview, "but that is pretty low on his to-do list," Earnest said.
Instead, Klain has briefed Obama on developments on six of seven days since he began work, Earnest said. He has talked to some state officials, but not others. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe spoke to Klain on Monday to tell him how the state was monitoring people returning from West Africa, a spokesman said.
But the Texas Department of State Health Services hasn't had direct contact with Klain, a spokeswoman there said. Florida health officials have not been contacted by Klain either, said Nathan Dunn, a spokesman for the state agency collaborative dealing with Ebola preparations.
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Obama reasssures nation about the worsening global Ebola threat.
Tells Americans he will bring foreigners with Ebola to US for treatment.
Man, that Ebola ran rampant, killed hundreds of millions.
Oh, wait.
I’m concerned about this person.
I saw our Surgeon General for the first time today. Well-spoken black gentleman.
Trump should put the guy on TV every day with a press conference. Give him the ball. THen the MSM couldn’t complain or they’d be racist. Checkmate!
Follow the money. Where were the additional funds authorized spent? Who got a cut?
I remember exactly what he did. Overnight all the Ebola stories disappeared from the press. They instituted a no more reporting rule.
Obola? Ask Rod’s sis at CDC, Nancy, what happened to him.
I fear government more than anything.
Yes, that too is what I remember : Obola’s administration fighting ever-so-hard to KEEP FROM quarantining ANYBODY from Africa who could be carrying the Ebolo virus!
“We must keep out borders open (to new victims, to new patients)!”
And they predictably trash Trump.
yep
Democrats: Gold medal in putting on a show and spending money to show how much they “care.”
A place to send cash for redistribution amongst crime members
Obama's Muslim giveaways of our tax dollars (that we know of). Priming the Obama foundations pumps---giveaway tax dollars now --collect donations later:
<><> $150 billion to Muslim Iran in the nuclear deal...plus the latest handout
<><> $2 billion to help half-brother Malik advance his organization---the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> $50 million to half-bro Malik/Barack's tax-exempt foundation in the form of a grant to Muslim Kenya.
<><> While the Muslim Brotherhood was in charge in Egypt, Obama (and Hillary) showered them w/ praise.....and billions of US dollars in aid, arms, tanks and planes. Payback is coming due.
<><> Obama gave $90 million US tax dollars to wealthy oil-rich Muslim African countries.
<><> the missing billions attached to Obamacare.
<><> Obama gave Michelle seventy-three million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Qatar
<><> Obama gave Michelle 100 million tax dollars to teach Muslim girls in Morocco.
"Nice deal....I get half donated to my tax-exempt Muslim foundation.
Another chunk goes to my presidential library's "Muslim Prayer Room."
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