He really congratulated Obama way too soon. In fact, wouldn’t it have made more sense to wait say, 1 week, at least, just to demonstrate that the recovery was nearly complete? Anyways, I guess Christie thinks like the Nobel Prize Committee, and won’t be a viable presidential candidate in the near future either. Oh well, that’s his loss.
What Christie did was trade short term gain for long term risk.
He’s betting that if things go bad ( and it looks like they will) he’s tied himself to Obama and put the emphasis on the FEMA response, which will allow him to deflect any blame that might come his way. He’s turned this into Obamas success, so if it falls apart it’ll be Obamas failure.
That’ll help him get reelected. But could damage him in the long term for his national ambitions. He’s betting that by 2016 or 2020 GOP primary voters won’t remember, or at least won’t care, about his behavior this week.
I’ll tell you this tho - he’s potentially selling out his country for personal gain. This isn’t the time to do that. He could have just politely thanked Obama for the relief effort, but asked the President to stay away due to the potential distraction and interference with first responders. Just like Bloomberg did.