Obama’s Katrina Is In Kentucky
by Big Dog on Feb 1, 2009 at 01:25 Political
The state of Kentucky has a lot of people without power and without basic supplies. 42 people have died as a result of the ice storms that hit the middle part of the United States this past week. The storms hit about five days ago and even though people are dying, Obama’s FEMA is nowhere to be found.
Yep, it has been five days and Barack Obama has not sent FEMA in to rescue people. He has not sent in generators so that people could have power and he has not sent in water so people would not have to get it from the creeks. Obama has not sent FEMA to the region and by all accounts Obama has not done a thing to help.
Barack Obama must hate white people.
When hurricane Katrina hit the Democrats used the disaster to gain political traction. They made claims that Bush was too slow to respond, that he hated black people, that his response was slow because most of those affected were black, that he did not do enough and he did nothing quickly enough. This played out over and over as the MSM made victims of people who refused to leave town before the storm hit. We all watched on TV as people were rescued from roofs because they refused to leave town. We also watched as people who were so accustomed to government providing for them stood in water looking around for help and unable to walk themselves to the nearby dry land.
To this day the left mentions Katrina and discusses the failure as a black mark on the Bush administration even though the majority of the blame belonged on the Democratic governor of the state and the Democratic mayor of New Orleans. Bush and FEMA got most of the blame because it was politically good for the Democrats and their media wing played right along.
I am willing to bet that the media are not as hard on Obama with regard to Kentucky as they were on Bush with New Orleans. Obama has neglected the people of Kentucky and there are no media around to tell the story like when Katrina hit. Then it was wall to wall with all the big names lining up to bash Bush over his mishandling of the hurricane response.
The media are not in Kentucky with wall to wall coverage about people dying in the cold while Obama sits in his extremely warm and toasty Oval Office. No media to provide constant coverage of FEMA and its terrible response because Obama has not deployed FEMA so there is no response. Kentucky has some FEMA folks in the Emergency Operations Center but that is not going to help much.
I guess the media are ignoring this because there are not a bunch of poor black folks sitting on roofs crying about their fate. There is no Republican president to hammer over the issue.
Instead they have a black president who obviously hates white people in red states and he is showing his hatred by not sending in FEMA and by not helping. He has not even flown into the area to survey the damage. It is cold there and he is from Hawaii you know. Maybe he will consider gracing those people with his presence but only after he has his Superbowl party. If it were Bush the left would be having fits.
Maybe he can take Al Gore with him to discuss global warming as the cause…
Of course the folks in Kentucky say it would be nice to have the resources of FEMA but they can get along without the feds helping.
“I’m not saying we can’t handle it,” Smith said. “We’re handling it. But it [FEMA help] sure would have made life a lot easier.” My Way News
Maybe, in the aftermath of Katrina where people complained about sole source contracts, the feds are out soliciting bids to help in Kentucky. Anyone familiar with the government bidding process already knows it will be Summer and all the people in Kentucky will be past this incident before the government approves anything.
But at least there will be none of those dastardly no bid contracts that drive liberals mad (unless Bill Clinton is issuing them).
Blue State: We need help, send Greyhound buses, the gubmint did not help. Where’s my $5000 debit card so I can get liquor and go to the nudie bar?
Red State: We can manage. It would have been a lot easier with their help but we will make it.
The last time I wrote about New Orleans I got over a hundred comments from people who live there all sniveling and blaming their woes on the government. I never saw where one took any responsibility or said that local government shared any of it. It was all the Corps of Engineers and Bush. I don’t imagine anything has changed so they still feel that way. But at least now they know that their messiah Obama hates white people and the folks in Kentucky are not getting FEMA help. Maybe, just maybe the folks in NO can watch and learn how people do things when they have to rough it for a while…
Sources:
My Way News
Jammie Wearing Fool
American Thinker
Yahoo News
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Tags: fema, ice storm, katrina, kentucky, new orleans, Obama, white people
No, it is actually probably because they are what is considered hillbilly hicks in flyover country and he is a liberal elitist who considers himself smarter than the rest of us. So it eliminates a few more of the “uninformed.”
“Barack Obama must hate white people.”
Gee, I wonder where he learned that. *cough*
Back in Dec NH had an ice storm of epic proportions- and yes, it DWARFT’d what’s going on in KY. People up here went 15 days without power; towns and cities and neighbors came together and helped…we opened up shelters, we sent our own people out to assist with transporting those w/o power to shelters. Volunteers cooked endless meals and provided tens of thousands of blankets, radios, ect ect. Our Gov did not even request FEMA help until it was all over- and everyone was back on the grid. And safe.
This was right before Christmas too. We had over 500,000 w/o power and less than 3 deaths. Hundreds of homes, vehicles, roads were destroyed. The fed government was absent for much of the actual disaster and it’s immediate aftermath…and we were all fine. We lived. We survived. We ate well and drank well.
In the meantime, Barry is getting ready to host a SuperBowl party at the White House.
I was just going to mention that Carol. A big party…while people are suffering.
I just noticed that MeatBall is whining about this post…well you know Meaty, in the hours after Katrina struck federal workers and FEMA people were in the region as well. BUT, as so many liked to say then, TWASN’T ENOUGH. We say it now.
Barry will watch the Superbowl, while people are in harms’ way, dying perhaps. At the very least, cold and hungry.
Barry’s priorities are all on himself.
You’ve got to be kidding me.
When the number of dead grows from 42 to over 1800, when a million people are displaced from their homes, when violence and looting breaks out and people are murdered in the chaos, when thousands are sleeping in a broken down sports arena turned emergency shelter, then we can talk about this in terms of Katrina.
Until then it may be wise just to keep your opinions to yourself and stop displaying in public forum what an utterly asinine group of ignorant political hacks looks like.
From Yahoo! News..the story you linked to.
“FEMA spokeswoman Mary Hudak said some FEMA personnel already are in Kentucky working in the state’s emergency operations center and that more will be arriving in coming days. Hudak said FEMA also has shipped to 50 to 100 generators to the state to supply electricity to facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, and water treatment plants.”
Your so dumb its funny!
Again, Adam you are still accusing your own people of racism! Which is far out of reach, White people have broken their necks to preserve freedom for all! I’m Hispanic and “CONSERVATIVE” does that make me racist and redneck! I like guns and my freedom of speech, I was in Katrina with the 82nd Airbornne Infantry feeding good people and shooting Gangbangers!And it was a mess and the people there were just crying and whinning instead of helping us help them! We were their to help two days later! I think that was fast enough! The messiah has done nothing for his white side, I feel very unconfident with his actions.
All the way dumb Bastards.
Harry:
*yawn*
“Political Hacks,” is that the best name you can come up with this time.
Victoria:
For people so bent on projecting Obama to be as bad as Bush that they’d conjure up cheap political arguments to compare the most devastating hurricane in US history that left 1800 dead and a million people without shelter to a bad ice storm that has left thousands without power and food and water and killed dozens? Partisan hacks? Do I need a better name?
Adam,
Perhaps the reason that people in Kentucky are not dying at a higher rate is that they do not depend on government to take care of them. They know how to survive so they don’t sit in their homes waiting for government to bail them out. The local officials are working to get people cared for unlike Nagin who left buses to flood while he was lying in the fetal position with his thumb in his mouth.
Yes, the article points out that there are a FEW FEMA folks there and some on the way but they are hampered by ice (just like the people going to NO were hampered by the storm). Yes they are shipping generators but let’s be clear, NO had more than enough equipment on scene after 5 days despite the fact that vast resources had to be used to rescue people who refused to leave. That was not good enough and Bush was the villain.
It is now 5 days after the ice storm and supplies are not there. If we use the same standards that the left did, Obama and FEMA are failures and he hates white people.
Adam, I know it is hard for you to understand that some people can take care of themselves without the gubmint but they are around. The people in KY have not lived off the gubmint for so long that they have forgotten how to take care of themselves.
Do more people have to die for it to be a disaster or to be equal? You obviously have no concept of emergency operations, emergency response, and emergency conditions.
So Adam, perhaps you should actually learn before you write. As many people affected in KY and as Raven stated, as many in NH before Christmas. What did they do differently?
They did not wait for government to bail them out.
Partison Hackery?–we choose to call it turn about fair play whenever and where ever possible. “Obama to be as bad as Bush?” You ain’t seen nothing yet, although….. (excerpt WND)The Obama administration, completing its first full week, wasted no time getting priorities in order. First, issue formal apologies to the world, and then begin advancing massive, intrusive government at home.
The president chose Arab television, Al Arabiya, to give his first sit-down interview. He took the opportunity to confirm the long-held Arab view that the real problem is America, and President Obama apologized on our behalf.
You guys are so blinded by your worship that it is going to take a nuke to wake you up and probably not even then.
Adam,
The hurricane did not leave 1800 people dead. The people and the government did that by not evacuating or otherwise taking care of them.
And the most devastating hurricane in US history happened in 1900 in Texas. Don’t forget, the damage in NO was due to corruption and their system of managing levees coupled with spending levee money on casinos.
There were people who could have been removed from the place via all the buses.
Rewrite history if you want but the blame is on the local government and the people who refused to leave. There are consequences for actions and they paid for their refusal to leave.
Yep, it is equal in scope and problem, just not in the number dead. Perhaps that is because people there know how to take care of themselves.
Victoria, excuse Adam. Like other liberals he has to make excuses for the failure of liberalism in NO.
Your post is a great example of how a little bit of information is a very dangerous thing.
The “damage” in New Orleans was due to the failures of the flood walls (not the levees). The flood walls were designed, built and maintained by the Army Corp or Engineers (a FEDERAL agency).
The REASON they failed? They were not designed properly. And to FURTHER compound the problem, they were not even built to the specs of the improper design!
I suggest you read one, just one, of the number of impartial books that are out there on the subject..
Harry, it wasn’t two days later that the 82nd Airborne recieved orders to deploy to Katrina. You might want to check your records on that one.
Most folks in KY need their utilities turned back on. Then they can go home and start cleaning up. The folks Katrina affected, many of them…MANY of them didn’t have homes to which they could return. It’s not a realistic comparison in any regard. Especially when KY’s Governor is praising the federal response so far.
New Orleans has only one casino Big Dog.
Hell, the only time I’ve left my roof over the last few days was too loot. Got myself a sweet Amana air conditioner!
No truth to the rumor I’ve been raping and murdering @ Commonwealth Stadium.
Hey wait, is that a FEMA aid plane? A media helicopter? Nope, false alarm, just a the neighbor scarin’ up a few turkeys to hold off the cannabilism.
Oh, the horrors of being a white man in Barack Obama’s America.
Ky folks don’t rely on welfare?! Kentucky contains one of the very, quite literally, dirt poorest populations in the entire country.
One casino that had money for the levees diverted to it.
There are certainly people in KY who receive welfare. There are people all over the country who do.
The mindset in the two places is different. In NO they stand around waiting for someone to help.
In KY people help themselves and band together to help each other.
They don’t go around looting for things to live on, like TV sets, designer jeans and liquor.
Keep in mind that we are discussing this with liberals. A monsoon could hit an area of this country and kill 50 thousand people and FEMA could take a month to get there. People could have known about the monsoon and still decided to stay and ride it out and the left would still say that it was handled well and there is no need to blame the sainted one for an act of nature.
People should be prepared you know and they should take care of themselves and by golly if George Bush would have signed onto Kyoto this would never have happened. Global warming did it and Obama is as pure as the driven snow.
It is the way they think. No personal responsibility.
Now my thoughts are turning to whether to rebuild or not. Damn’d ice blew out two tires on the house and the the blasted water’s washed out the cement blocks proppin’ up the ol’ Chevy.
I gotta hope there’ll be some finacial aid programs or I’ll be living in squalor.
Squalor is just North of Livingston…got an aunt lives over there.
It is wrong to believe that there wasn’t plenty of that going on in NO as well. The banding together. The point is that the ice storm in KY is in no way comparable to Katrina. How stupid do you think the people in Kentucky are for being too lazy to evacuate?
GBlagg, I used to live in KY. Not far from Livingston actually. My mother and father still live there. I was speaking of Eastern Kentucky when I was referring to the poor population. I should have clarified.
The funny thing is that people like the retard Meathead write articles that I am a liar because I said that OBAMA did not send FEMA. The article says some FEMA people are there and more are on the way. It does not say that Obama sent them. I never said there were no FEMA people there and in fact the post states:
Kentucky has some FEMA folks in the Emergency Operations Center but that is not going to help much.
Did those items come from the things already in Kentucky because of the CSEPP program for Blue Grass Army Depot? FEMA is represented there already so it is not out of the realm that some would be available.
You see, I have not seen where Obama has ordered FEMA to the region (and has he declared a disaster). I have not seen where the media are running around showing all the problems and then saying the president needs to do something like they did when Katrina hit.
What I see is a disaster that has had little response in 5 days because people are having trouble getting there. I also see that the response to Katrina was much quicker and larger but they had trouble getting in as well. I also see where there are areas where people have not been visited by emergency personnel and the officials do not know if they are still alive.
What I also see is that people like Meathead fail to comprehend the double standard and I also see he cannot read.
Meathead is a moron who knows nothing about emergency response. Funny, the same people who criticized Bush are making excuses for Obama. Screw you Meathead. Go walk in front of a bus. Perhaps you missed where I said he did not send generators to help the people. FEMA has shipped them for hospitals and nursing homes (places that might actually have them already) and not to the people. Learn to read you moron.
And, they were shipped. Are they there? Did they sole source the generator contract? Could some Kentucky business have provided it for less?
Remember the meme about Bush not going there quickly enough? Has Obama been to this place yet? Maybe after his Superbowl party.
There isn’t a double standard because the scenario’s are different. The ice storm isn’t nearly the disaster that Katrina was.
You all’s a got me ‘a thinkin’.
Maybe for some folks there is a level of sufferin’ that’s OK. As long as it isn’t as bad as Katrina, screw the folks without power and water. So what if a few old folks are a passin’ away. That much less pressure on the welfare state after all. Sure’n the media’s got more important things to cover…got those awesome Super Bowl commericials and the like. A few people’s pain in the grand scheme ‘a things? That ain’t enough to send no shiver up no blowhards leg.
I’m just curious though. What is the exact number of people needin’ to be sufferin’ to make it important enough for the media, Lefties, and the Messiah to give a crap?
The disasters are different but the responses are nearly similar and not one of the idiots on the left who criticized Katrina is out there on this one.
There are still dangers such as hypothermia, loss of power to medical equipment. No one was lazy for not evacuating. Their homes were probably safer than traveling on ice.
The reality is that it all depends upon whose ox is being gored. When people jumped all over Bush that was fine but now that they jump on the messiah it is not.
Sorry but it does not wash. Now it is time to give back the same as was dished out. Does it seem silly to you? Well now you know how it was to us.
A disaster is a disaster and the size of what happened is a small part in determining it. The biggest part in deciding is what resources are available.
But to people with no experience in this, it is all the same.
My mothers electricity is back on. I just checked. How long was it before electricity was restored in NO? Mississippi? Big Dog, I agree with you on the evacuation regarding KY, but it reinforces my point that the situations aren’t comparable.
The two disasters are certainly different but the response is no different.
Good that your mom has electricity. Some folks will not have it for weeks. Some of MS and LA had electricity earlier than others.
I bet though, that if people had been told to evacuate they would have (most of them).
Really am glad your mom has electricity. I hope she is OK.
Randall Smith, Emergency director said:
FEMA was still a no-show days after the storm.
Hmmm, wonder how this squares with the report from FEMA?
Fine, what did Steve Beshear and Barack Obama do right in their response that kept the death toll so low regarding the ice storm as opposed to what Kathleen Blanco, Haley Barbour and GW Bush did wrong. Let’s compare. I don’t agree with this, but if you insist.
Actually I think that Blanco and Nagin should have had a mandatory evacuation (along the lines of what Jindal and Nagin did) and that the buses should have removed the people. Fewer would have died.
I think that the leaders of all the states affected (KY is only one of them) have shelters open and are working around the clock to get things repaired. The police in NO left and anarchy broke out.
Also, the NO evacuation plan prior to Katrina said that 135,000 people would be left behind. In reality, they did just what their plan dictated though they could have removed many more with the buses. Nagin wanted Greyhounds…
I think that the people are handling the issue much better and that the people of NO had dodged so many bullets they became complacent. Once the storm hit they did not know how to care for themselves.
Tragedies all but no president be he a Bush or an Obama can stop mother nature. The criticisms on Bush were overblown and the ones pointing at Obama are no different.
But since the precedent was established by the left and the media we need to hold them to it.
Steve Beshear has been asking for federal help and he has been getting it. Agreed that no one can stop mother nature. The response to the ice storm hasn’t been bad. Not perfect, but not bad. I would compare it to the Katrina response if I could, but I can’t. I still contend that the ice storm warranted a different sort of response than did Katrina.
Well it seems that people that haven’t done any time in the Military have no clue how sh!t works! Adam, your the one who thinks you know better, yet you wont even lift a finger if our country gets invaded! You will scream and demand that we redneck conservatives start fighting to defend it! Am I right? Am right!
Yet I bore you with what is right!
All the way dumb bastards!
“When our Country gets invaded”?
Better put down your weapons there Sarge and back away from the windows…
I said “IF our Country Gets INVADED” Not when!
Harry, the 82nd Airborne wasn’t in New Orleans two days after Katrina. Please check yourself when accusing others of not knowing how things work.
Dear Randy! I admit I made a type-o with the days!I’m sorry will you please bless me with your liberal forgiveness! I was there, were you?
Yes I was wrong on the day, and that happened a few years ago!
But I felt what was happening and saw the mess, and helped people and yes there were ganbangers shooting at our helicopters while we were bringing food and water!
After all I ain’t perfect and either are liberals!
So all the way dumb Bastards!
Harry,
You were in the 82nd. When did you arrive? Even if it was at the staging area, when did you guys arrive?
Nice assumptions about who I am Harry. Keep it up.
sep 6, 2005 and we had to sleep in an abandoned school! And half of our guys got sick from the floating dead that all aound us! Any ways I’m a a little dissapointed in all you liberals that assume that you have a correct answer to everything. I was with 3rd platoon A 2-505, SFC. Sturm and 1st Sgt. Soto who was forced retired for giving us an order to lock and load when we walked in an area full of empty ammo shells and open liquer bottles, Thanks to the liberal CNN who made a big deal out of it!
Nice assumption of who I AM!
DumbBastards,……
Any ways I want to give a shout out to my Conservative Rednecks “GIT’R’Done”
Harry, I just wanted to set the record straight. I am thankful for your service and believe that if they give you a weapon with ammo then you should use it when necessary.
The libs have trouble understanding what it takes because they think that any president can change in a phone booth and swoop in to save people.
We are the best at protecting our own interests and keeping our loved ones safe. That means leaving when it is bad.
Thank you Big dog for your service as well!
And I hope we can resolve our problems with the our country soon!
Thanks Big dog.
Harry, I made no assumptions of who you are. How many days after Katrina hit did you arrive in New Orleans then, it was a few more than two? I know the 82nd follows orders, I am not suggesting anything about the 82nd airborne. I know who they are. How long did the 82nd wait, ready for the order but not recieving it. We are still talking about disaster response, are we not?
FEMA are not first responders. They do not have 100’s of people standing by, sleeping in dorms, waiting for disasters to hit. FEMA is a checkbook. They hand out money to fix problems AFTER a disaster, not DURING a disaster.
Remember its called Federal Emergency MANAGEMENT Agency.
the area was declared a disaster immediately, thereby making it eligible for federal money. But bottom line, YOUR state is responsible for their own problems. This has nothing to do with white v black, or red v blue.
But since you brought it up…
It was GWB who gutted FEMA and put political appointee hacks in charge. If you have a problem with FEMA’s current makeup, put in a call to Crawford TX and voice your displeasure,
In the meantime president Obama is busy with other more pressing issues- like cleaning up after the NeoCons.
I am not picking fights with anybody, but we were ready, in fact the 82nd is ready to deploy anywhere in the world within 12hours.
Now as for us republicans and liberals we should have set aside our differences far too long ago. I hope that our country does not fall into a civil war because all this arguing between politicians and the media taking sides, is leading us in that direction.
Im pretty much done talking! I got homework to do and a family to take care of!
Harry, I know you are done talking. I don’t expect a response. I will respect the your statement that you aren’t picking a fight, but calling people dumbasses isn’t a very effective way to accomplish that. I am well aware of what the 82nd airborne is capable of as far as large scale quick responses go. It’s quite impressive. They were late getting thier orders. That’s the problem. I agree with you on the partisan fighting.
If you people who never take responsibility for your actions would start doing so, you would see that wherever there is a catastrophe, it it traumatic to the people who live there. To argue which one was bigger is stupid. No, Obama didn’t respond because he is too busy apologizing to the Muslims for the so called failures of the US. I said before that he would work our enemies into the US to take over very sneakily. Look closely at his actions and stop looking at color. Adam is a person who isn’t happy unless he is arguing nastily instead of with a rational brain.
Adam has his head up bho’s a$$
I Told You So Moment: Hussein Obama Hates Crackers…
Listen to your president you dumb ass white liberals…
From a Hugh Hewitt Show.
In Obama’s own words:
“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, wh…
No Matter what President Obama Does, People in the Red States are to ignorant to realize that we as Americans now have hope. Bush screwed up the world and you think he is still a good man. I am not sure why FEMA did not respond, I speculate that it is because of Policy that Bush set up and needs to be changed. Please give Obama a chance. He is our leader, and he is are only hope.
As I stated before–has anyone heard a whimper out of the media about anything other than KY still being without electricity. Is our Prez even leaving his warmth to go down there? The governor has declared it the biggest disaster ever to hit that state. Yep–fly over country. NO is one of the circle of cities not in fly over country.