Posted on 01/16/2010 7:59:27 AM PST by kristinn
The Obama administration is burnishing Barack Obama's image as intently focused on the plight of Haitians by pushing on the press a detailed-to-the-minute timeline of Obama's involvement with the response to the Haiti earthquake this week.
This shameless promotion of Obama confirms what Rush Limbaugh said earlier this week--that Obama would use the earthquake for his political benefit.
The release of the Haiti timeline is in stark contrast to the failure of the White House to similarly account for Obama's time in the aftermath of the Christmas Day terror attack on America while Obama was on vacation in Hawaii. Then, the administration told the press Obama was getting briefings in between golfing, snorkeling, picnicking and otherwise not doing his job.
The timeline lists twenty-two entries for Obama taking meetings, briefings and phone calls in the sixty-nine hour period from 5:52 p.m. Tuesday (an hour after the quake struck) through 3 p.m. Friday. Other entries note meetings convened by others at Obama's direction.
Obama seems to have slacked off some on Friday after spending the previous two days on the phone and in meetings.
The danger for Obama is that the amount of time spent on the earthquake by him has not translated into relief for the survivors in Haiti. Last night and this morning, news reports out of Haiti all told the same story: aid is bottled-up at the international airport in Haiti because noone has taken charge.
Here's a sample from the release demonstrating Obama is the hardest working man in show business, I mean the White House (via the Chicago Sun-Times):
Thursday, January 14
(The President receives verbal briefings on the situation from Denis McDonough throughout the day)
9:30 AM-- The President met in the Oval Office with several of his lead military and civilian national security team to receive an update on the situation in Haiti and on progress against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
4:17 PM - The President speaks with President Sarkozy of France about ongoing US and French relief efforts, and the need for coordination of immediate and long term international efforts to assist the people of Haiti.
4:30 PM - Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon convened a Deputies Committee for approximately 2.5 hours to discuss coordination of the United States Government's relief efforts in Haiti. The meeting included senior representatives from: State, USAID, USUN, DOD, SOUTHCOM, TRANSCOM, JCS, DHS, Coast Guard, and National Security and White House Staff.
8:54 PM -- The President speaks with President Fernandez of the Dominican Republic. The President expressed his appreciation for the role the Dominican Republic has played in facilitating the evacuation of US citizens and in the flow of relief teams and supplies into Haiti through the Dominican Republic. President Fernandez conveyed his assessment of the situation in Haiti following his visit today to Port au Prince.
10:15 PM -The President receives an update from Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon on relief efforts, the situation on the ground in Haiti, and tonight's Deputies Committee meeting.
Rush Limbaugh's prescient comments:
RUSH: Here's President Obama speaking about Haiti this morning in Washington at the White House. He held a press conference. Now, I want you to remember, it took him three days to respond to the Christmas Day Fruit of Kaboom Bomber, three days. And when he came out after those three days, he was clearly irritated that he had to do it. He didn't want to do it. He comes out here in less than 24 hours to speak about Haiti...
I'm just fascinated here the country the president of the United States feels the need to apologize for, the country the president of the United States feels is immoral and unjust, can barely contain himself running to the cameras in less than 24 hours after this earthquake to pledge aid and to ask citizens who have lost their jobs because of his policies to donate to the relief effort...
Yes, I think in the Haiti earthquake, ladies and gentlemen -- in the words of Rahm Emanuel -- we have another crisis simply too good to waste. This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, "credibility" with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It's made-to-order for them. That's why he couldn't wait to get out there, could not wait to get out there.
Sun-Times Washington reporter Lynn Sweet called the timeline release by the Obama administration an "unusual step."
Indeed, or as Rush might say, "I told you so."
Jerry owns the Dallas Cowboys football team, and GWB was on tv with him last weekend....another siting.
This “to the minute time line” for BO is most likely two fold. Bo puts it out there for his media to follow through and they will. He is saying that he has has been on this Haiti thing from the beginning and has not wavered, thus he
could not take time out to help Coakley which is his last plea to the Massachusetts voters and media for help with her election. If she looses (more than likely will) he hopes the media will cover the time line so he does not appear to be a looser, “he was too busy with Haiti” and her loss has nothing to do with his agenda, namely health care, while at the same time he is hoping his numbers will improve. WRONG and WRONG again BO because the American people have been finally paying attention, even those folks in Massachusetts and we don’t like what we are seeing and hearing from you or your administration..
Yup. Read this where an expert discusses the subject as it relates to Obama ZeroMeinFuehrer:
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Okay. What does that have to do with the context of this thread?
BTW, I hate the Vikings but I hope they kick the living crap out of the Cowgurls.
This is not unlike zero’s desire for photo ops with military caskets at Dover.
After the Indonesian tsunami, Bush had U.S. troops "boots on the ground" inside of two days. In Haiti, under Obama, it took four days, nearly twice as long, and after virtually all those buried in the rubble were already dead.
AzRepublic’s poll question
Do you think Rush Limbaugh’s comments about President Obama and Haiti cross the line?
Yes.
45.49%
No.
45.05%
I’m not sure.
9.45%
Total Votes: 677
http://www.azcentral.com/ (This rag is part of Gannett, pro “migrant”, pro-lefty) Used to be, a long time ago, a good newspaper.
“No, the idiots who voted for Obama scare me just as much as Obama not least because they also vote for the likes of Reid and Pelosi.”
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Obama and the rest are merely the symptoms of the real disease. As you say, anyone who believed Obama’s line of bovine splatter was already living in an alternate reality.
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