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Victims abandones so he can go back on campaign trail

Posted: Nov 5, 2012

My heart goes out to the victims of the storm. If any of you are reading this my prayers are with you. More than I can say for a someone who claims to care.

Here's a video calling attention to how President Obama abandoned those who are recovering from Hurricane Sandy to go back on the campaign trail:

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/video-sandy-victims-beg-help_660345.html

If he at least cared maybe he'd get more votes.

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Abandoned? - Meme

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Abandoned? Really? Is he supposed to stay there until everything is rebuilt? If you think that candidates should not return to the campaign this soon, you might be interested to know that Romney restarted campaigning on Wednesday, October 31. President Obama did not go back on the campaign trail until Thursday, November 1. Let's be realistic here. The president has a multitude of government people working on helping the victims of this horrible storm. No president in history has stayed at something like this for longer than 3-4 days, whether there was an election upcoming or not, because once they have seen and delegated who needs what they aren't really needed there anymore.

Not to mention - old and burned out

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that Mitt used that disaster for an immediate photo op, loading groceries into a van when the Red Cross specifically asks for cash donations. The RC does not want to use their personnel to sort through clothes and canned goods. If Mitt had been truly responsible, he would have appealed his supporters to send money and he would have answered the reporters' questions about how FEMA would operate after the 40% cut in Paul Ryan's budget.

A better photo op for him would have been a visit to - a RC blood donation center. nm

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Tell that to Romney. - His WalMart stunt was a bust. nm

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Maybe he can't donate blood. - RC

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Maybe he has a new tattoo. :P

I don't think you - can squeeze blood

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from an empty suit!

Now that's a good one. Thanks for the laugh. - Aunt Sue

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As you constantly state OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT - IT IS OBAMA'S JOB not Romney's

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To oversee relief efforts. You are all so transparently hypocritical.

He's applying for the job and has shown he's clearly - not prepared for this duty.

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Got it?

Obama applying for the job and has shown he's clearly - not prepared for this duty. - Got it? probably not - concepts of fact

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seem difficult for you to grasp.

Governor Christie does not agree. - Neither do the polls on this which

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show overwhelming approval of his response, ranging from 69% to 78% who give him a high five. In the meantime, it's also reminded voters about the positive role government plays in disaster management.

Gov. Romney is running for President and he shown he IS clearly prepared - Got it? I doubt it

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In every aspect of this emergency that has unfortunately happened to so many people, Gov. Romney has stepped up to the plate and offered what assistance was needed.

More than I can say for O, who all he cared about was getting his voting vehicle out for people to vote for him. Water? Heck no, you don't need water, just make sure you vote for me.

NPR reported today many NYC victims already have - FEMA housing vouchers in their hands

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but hotels are turning them away if they can't pay in advance. I wonder how many of them had their credit cards and cash withdrawals for hotel deposits on them when the storm struck? Then there's the scope of the disaster and population density to consider. Most of the hotels were already full of tourists, marathoners and those who could afford get a room when they evacuated before the storm.

After he's done gutting the FEMA budget and gets it all voucherized and outsourced, what's would Romney do to accommodate the immediate housing, food, medicine and power needs of 40,000 displaced flood victims? Snap his magic fingers and they'll just spring up overnight, right?

Trust me. - If R becomes prez

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you will be abandoned after day one. No FEMA, no squat. You can go begging at your church for a few canned goods and old clothes.

gees! get a grip! - anon

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what an imagination! doomsday soothsayers unite.

Yeah, gets kinda ridiculous, doesn't it? - backwards typist

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Some people only think with they're padded parts (get what I mean?), not with their head, and it's such a shame to waste a mind.

Actually agree with you, BT. It takes a lot of time to - dismantle a program. nm

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Padded parts? I don't understand - your secret language.

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She is just throwing insults again. nm - VTMT

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You would know - your standard MO. - Pot.kettle.black

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You know - your female body parts - -

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that the Obama campaign exploited.

The ones the GOP wants the government to control - one a cell-by-cell basis?

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Good heavens. By padded parts, I meant - backwards typist

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an a**. Geez, VTMT should get a grip, as should a few others on this board. No matter what is posted, they ALWAYS take things the wrong way. My post wasn't insulting at all. I said padded parts because I don't want to get banned for profanity.

Has nothing to do with female body parts. Maybe I'm wrong but I think everyone has an a**, don't they?

Lighten up a little bit.

What Mittens truly believes - old and burned out

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It's been very difficult to decide what Mittens really believes since he changes his mind constantly and says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear on that particular occasion but one thing he has said and that his closest associates agree on is that he thinks as much as possible should be turned back to the states and as much as possible should be privatized. Do you really think that private companies would help the victims who needed them the most or the ones who would provide the most profit? By their very nature, private companies must think about their bottom line. While they may make charitable contributions from time to time, they cannot do business on a charitable basis or they would go out of business.

What Obama turly believes - "Scre_ you, I got mine" - As usual, your post is ALL opinion, no fact.

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"It's been very difficult to decide what" King of Kenya "really believes since he changes his mind constantly and says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear on that particular occasion" and has been known to thrown in a southern accident and then speak in a black dialect when Obama thinks it pleases the crowd - quite insulting.

BTW- Try actually doing some research. The PRIVATE, FOR PROFIT companies have provided far more relief than Obama and the Fed aka FEMA (are you familiar with them and their record - seems not).

Trust you? - ?

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See no reason to trust any of your posts - We with common sense pass on

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your completely baseless, factless posts.

Yeah, but no heat, water, or food - backwards typist

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hen you cancel a marathon, like the New York City Marathon on Friday, you're left with a bunch of bottled water, generators, mylar blankets, and lots of energy-giving foods like apples and peanuts. But instead of sending them to the Rockaways or Staten Island, much of those supplies sat unused at the finish line Sunday. It's almost like the New York Road Runners, the marathon's organizer, hadn't learned its lesson in PR over the past week. "The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday," report The New York Post's Antonio Antenucci, Reuven Fenton, C.J. Sullivan, and Aaron Feids this morning. They add: "[S]tashed near the finish line of the canceled marathon were 20 heaters, tens of thousands of Mylar 'space' blankets, jackets, 106 crates of apples and peanuts, at least 14 pallets of bottled water and 22 five-gallon jugs of water."

The Post's team doesn't say if the supplies were eventually moved to other parts of New York City , but the fact that the supplies sat there at the finish line on Sunday while the race was canceled two days earlier is puzzling considering the marathon had been facing a brutal public relations fallout over its plan to use generators to power a media tent—generators which were powerful enough to light 400 homes—and didn't foresee the public relations problem that would cause. And those pictures of unused goods waiting for runners that weren't coming undercuts the Marathon and its organizers' generous contributions. As NY1's Pat Kiernan reported, they did do their part in donating:

Read the rest here:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/11/end-marathons-generators-helped-no-one/58690/#

If the hotels had accepted those with vouchers, - they'd have a roof over their heads

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heat if the power is on, blankets if it's not, and access to food and water, wouldn't they? I guess the potential accounting headaches they anticipated over suspended reimbursements were more important. A fine example of business community spirit.

Many marathon runners stuffed their backpacks with supplies, took the ferry to Staten Island and ran through the neighborhoods doing what they could, including pitching in with clearance of debris in the neighborhoods. However, those supplies you mentioned don't fit in backpacks so, again, it a logistics problem involving a who, what, when, and where plan, trucks and ground access.

When hurricanes hit, once rescue is done and water has subsided, aside from power issues, the city's priorities are typically focused on road debris clearance of major arteries and mass transport systems to facilitate MOVEMENT, whether it be getting kids back in school, workers to their jobs, or transporting relief supplies. They concentrate their efforts where the results can do the most good for the most people. Those are the very same things that can get generators from point A to point B, but not typically in 2 days, not in disasters of this scope. Then comes the inevitable tug of war between business/commercial interests versus those of the individual/residential sectors.

FEMA officials and field workers do not materialize out of thin air. They too have to travel to their destinations, house themselves and secure transportation before they can get to work. There is just no way to describe the awesome extent of this kind of destruction to those who haven't seen it first hand, something Christie reminds his GOP critics about in his response to them over the appreciation he expressed to the president and the role the feds play in this recovery. Something as ordinary as transport via private auto is a real strategic challenge. Signs are down, signals don't work, some drivers are dazed, confused and disoriented, and around every turn you find heaps of debris piled up waiting for removal, downed power lines or, as is the case in Staten Island, BOATS in the middle of the street. It's a real nightmare, one that requires team effort, not partisan bickering.

People have to take care of themselves. FEMA put a blanket - around their shoulders and food in their

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stomachs--but.

When we lived in Los Angeles and faced the possibility of a major civil emergency, we kept fuel, food, and water supplies in our garage and in our RV, but we also literally had plans for, if possible, either taking our RV or throwing the kids on our motorcycles, depending on how much lead time we might have, and making our way over the mountains right behind us to the Central Valley to the north ASAP, assuming many thousands would be on our heels, and then KEEP going. What we didn't do was bet our children's lives, in a climate with hopelessly inadequate local water (only a few reservoirs miles away that would be guarded by armed troops) and food, that somehow the government would be able to get both to us before we died. Simple numbers. These days I think they'd do much better and I wouldn't take the grave risks of leaving a stocked-up home; but still--we're not talking N.Y. here, and at least we thought ahead about what we would need.

Many of these people on the East Coast are cold and without places to stay, but the vast majority will get through it okay. And some will come out the other side a little wiser for their experiences. Hopefully. Obviously, they really need to be.

and here comes the N'oreaster on Wednesday. - backwards typist

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So looking forward to it - NOT! What are the homeless to do?

The mayor was yelled at today by some woman because they're freezing (temp this morning was 39 degrees). A TV station tried to ask him a question about when they would get help and he brushed her off with the comment, "Talk to my press person" and walked away.

Kind and caring, he's not. Too bad he can't run for re-election so the voters could have the pleasure of kicking him out of office.

He's tired. All the sympathy in the world won't help - somone who shivered herself to sleep

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and woke up soaked in her 2-year-old's urine, with no dry clothes available. Again, 22 million people just in Greater New York, and this storm hit 10 states. They have to take better care of themselves.

If you want to blame someone else, though, blame those who've claimed in the face of all evidence for 40 years now that climate change isn't happening--because a lot of people who trusted them who now HAVE to recognize that they were betrayed and that they have to plan for new weather extremes from a destabilized global weather system.

They can start by realizing that the U.S., which always had more severe and erratic weather than Europe (big surprise to the first immigrants) may be harder hit than many parts of the world and that if we don't handle this wisely just the costs of crawling out from under everything we've lost and rebuilding again and again could make us a relatively poor country.

And on top of that--first actually, they have to realize that in the "good old days" cities of millions of people living practically on top of each other simply didn't exist. Plus, at this time last century over 80% of all households in this country grew at least some of their own food. How about now? Things are different, and we're really, really vulnerable. Any disruption of the continual supply of food and water brought in from outside for more than a very few days would mean people started dying, ultimately by the millions. It's not impossible.

So far only 100 people have died in 10 states that we know of. Remember, this storm weakened before it hit land. Another time, even though millions might be highly unlikely, 50,000 not so much.

It's 86 degrees here right now. - RC

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Hello, climate change!

We usually have an Indian Summer, but this is crazy!

You mean 56. It's 33 at night. - keeping it honest

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No, our temperature is about where it always is.

Huh? - RC

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Sorry, don't understand your post.

You know nothing. Most New Yorkers wish he could run again. nm - Don't speak for us! nm

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It's not like he didn't tell people to prepare. Points to him for - not screaming in frustration. :) nm

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Love it! - You go, girl. nm

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