From White House Dossier:
President Obama doesn’t seem to have even peered out his Air Force One window to view the swelling Mississippi, a minimal show of interest for which George W. Bush was pilloried when he took a peek at the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. At least Bush bothered to look.
Obama is traveling today OVER the devastation being wrought by the Mississippi in order to get to events in Texas, where he will rally his Hispanic supporters with a speech on immigration in El Paso and then head to the Lone Star state’s liberal bastion of Austin for two fundraisers.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One, was asked whether Obama had bothered to get a view from above.
“I haven’t seen him do that but I haven’t been with him for the full flight so far,” Carney said…
Its “flyover” country. Places where people go to church and own guns. Places where, let’s face it, Obama isn’t going to pick up many electoral votes in 2012, no matter what happens. So, lack of interest…but also note what Obama was doing while ignoring the plight of the people along the Mississippi: heading to a State he can’t win to talk up a proposal (comprehensive immigration reform) he won’t push in order to galvanize hispanic support for 2012…and then he’s off to a fat cat fundraiser in one of Texas’ few liberal bastions. “Cynicism” doesn’t even begin to cover this.
You liberals picked him. You called him “the one”. You swooned with ecstasy at his 2008 rallies. He’s your man. You got what you wanted.
No, how does it taste?
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