Obama takes charge at hurricane command center

AFP – 2 hrs 14 mins ago ^ | 8/27/2011

[sinanju]

US President Barack Obama warned the US east coast was in for a "long 72 hours" as he led his government's response to Hurricane Irene at a disaster command center in Washington.

Obama on Saturday chaired a meeting at the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) set up at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, which is marshaling federal and local hurricane-relief efforts.

"This is going to be a tough slog getting through this thing," Obama said during a video teleconference including senior federal officials and local government agencies in the east coast path of Irene.

"It's going to be a long 72 hours. Obviously a lot of families are going to be affected ... the biggest concern I'm having right now has to do with flooding and power," Obama said during the videoconference.

"(It) sounds like that's going to be an enormous strain on a lot of states" that could last days, or even longer in some cases, he said.

Saturday evening Obama convened a conference call with members of his senior emergency response team including Vice President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, among others.

"The President was briefed on the current track of the storm, the weather impacts being felt so far and efforts to pre-position response and recovery assets," said a statement released by the White House.

"The President asked to be kept apprised of developments throughout the night and said that he wants the group to re-convene tomorrow morning."

[silverleaf]

The man who has to keep telling you he is in charge -
Is not really in charge...nor does the man who is a real potus need a name tag

Unlike Louisiana during Katrina, the east coast has a raft of competent governors who are in charge ... one of their biggest headaches will be obama’s idiot bureaucrats trying to tell them what to do, and obama looking for photo ops as campaign ads

[reformedliberal]

So, he is boosting his ratings among his base and the other drones who mindlessly vote donk,after having ignored hundreds of thousands/millions of formerly moderate independents who voted for him once, but who will now either not vote or revert back to center right.

BTW, the other flooded areas of the US also contain minorities, unionistas and assorted other liberal voters who have to live in the midst of devastation, some of it exacerbated by the government, while being ignored.

Great strategy and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of demographics in this country, not to mention their vaunted *optics*.

[Richard from IL]

Funny!

[ArmyTeach]

That’s the best point!