Really wish Free Republic had an “edit comment” option. Apologize for the profanity. This just makes me so mad that I went off the rails a little. Sigh. (I have friends who live in that area and this is all on Obama’s incompetence — the problem has been know abort for many years — but now they are blaming Trump. Really ticks me off.)
Surely the person who should be on top of the situation is the governor of California, not the president. And maybe the governor is, but really, this idea that the President of the United States has some major role to play in natural disasters is politically unrealistic and constitutionally unsupported. The people affected will have their local and state governments all over this situation (and I hope they escape without a major flood) and rightly so, they are more easily able to communicate directly with the people through local media. What’s the president supposed to do, camp out in the lobby of city hall or the local Fox news outlet? (obviously for personal safety he should avoid any other TV studios). Then the minute somebody says the water’s breaking through, he could break into Family Guy or whatever and tell everybody, “run, this is the president, run, don’t be an idiot.” Or maybe just send Alec Baldwin, he does a pretty good impression.
Mark Twain wrote, “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
“Say four Hail Mary’s and five Our Fathers and go forth and sin no more.”
We all know what you mean.