Obama saved 1,459 people from a Cat 1 hurricane

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

2pooped2pop (1,575 posts)

5 deaths from Hurricane Isaac

At least 1,836 people lost their lives in Hurricane Katrina and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest US hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane.
 It should be noted that officially, 1464 of these deaths took place within New Orleans.
 
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_were_killed_by_Hurricane_Katrina#ixzz25DeZv7aI
 
Just saying....

It makes a lot of difference in if you are trying to rescue them or leave them on the rooftops, it would seem. Heck of a job Obama. That's how it's done.

2pooped2pop (1,575 posts)

2. ???

???? You mean Obama getting all the praise? Hell no. His policies being different from Bushco. Obama had the guard there prior to the hurricane hitting land. Lots and lots of people to be praised but it was the difference in how a democrat helps people and how a repiglican helps only the rich. (like when they blew the levee to allow the water to flood the poor people still in their homes to save the rich already evacuated ones.)
 
Bush couldn't be found.

During Bush, there were plenty of citizens trying to rescue. 500 boats I hear. But they wouldn't let them. They left people stranded. It was almost as if they wanted them to die.

1. the Guard belongs to the state governor.

2. the feds cannot act until an emergency is declared...by the governor

3. Bush spent $13bn to set-up the levees that stopped any flooding

4. it was a Cat 1 vs Cat 5

5. Obama was doing LiveChat campaign events while Isaac was making landfall

6. you're actually repeating Calypso Louis' paranoid blown levee story?

ananda (10,412 posts)

4. Not only that but...

... well over 100,000 Black people had to leave
NOLA for good and the Bush admin did nothing
to help them return, even to the point of letting
perfectly good housing go empty or go under
the wrecking ball.

I hear that the gentrification process is going well
there, though.

The NAACP bused them back in to vote for the man who couldn't bus them out before the storm.

madokie (33,864 posts)

5. President Obama is good for America

All of America except the bigots and racist, them not so much. We need to stomp out that part of our population. I don't mean to harm I mean to educate it out of them, the hatred they have in their heart of hearts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021247638

[MrsSmith]

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/father-son-rescue-team-20120829

Father-Son Team Rescues 120 from La. Floods

BRAITHWAITE, La. -- Residents of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana were shocked by Hurricane Isaac Wednesday morning when ocean water burst over the Mississippi River levee, covering their town and leaving thousands trapped in attics and on roofs.

Jesse Shaffer, 25, and his father, also named Jesse Shaffer, 53, both of Braithwaite, La., stayed behind in their town to rescue their friends.

While police and the fire department were unable to reach some stranded people using their vehicles, the Shaffers were able to save lives using boats.

...

Each Shaffer controlled a boat, in which the pair saved a combined 120 people in 12 hours, as well as animals.

Obama's schedule that day:

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/obamas-day-aug-29-campaign-event-virginia

DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012

In the morning, the President will depart Fort Collins, Colorado en route Charlottesville, Virginia. The departure from Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport and arrival at Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport are open press.

In the afternoon, the President will deliver remarks at a campaign event at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in Charlottesville, Virginia. This event is open to pre-credentialed members of the media.

In the evening, the President will depart Charlottesville, Virginia and return to Washington, DC. The departure from Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport and the arrival on the South Lawn are open press.

Obama campaigns while people drown in Louisiana

[BlueStateSaint]

Mrs. Smith, when I'm done typing this, I'm going to H5 you for that.  And, I'd like to add this:  Obama had to cancel scheduled campaign appearances on the Monday before his immaculation (Labor Day) because soon-to-be-President Romney flew to New Orleans to survey the damage done by Isaac.  Romney shamed Obama.  Why didn't Obama get off the golf course (or wherever he was) and go there during the RNC?  He would have legitimately stole some of the news from the Republicans--who would make an argument against the President going to a hurricane-ravaged area, no matter when it happened?--and maybe let some of the remaining uncommitted voters know, "the President cares." 

[Freeper]

I woke up this morning alive. No one broke into my house and murdered me and my wife while we slept. Praise 0bama for watching over us. 

[jtyangel]

Hmmm aside from the difference in severity of the storm I'm sure having btdt in a little over 5 years, having updated and reinforced levies, less government dependent idiots who do nothing for themselves even in life threatening circumstances, and a newer found healthy respect for nature has nothing at all to do with  it either. These people are truly useless and senseless(dummies). What a bunch of hopeless sychofants with zero sense of reality.

[jukin]

1+1=POTATO and other trips into logic from a DUmbass.

[DLR Pyro]

Brownie, you're doing one heck of a job.

[98ZJUSMC]

1+1=POTATO and other trips into logic from a DUmbass.

Exactly.

[BlueStateSaint]

1+1=POTATO and other trips into logic from a DUmbass.

You obviously didn't get the message--1+1 now equals rutabega.

[Kyle Ricky]

I wonder if we are going to see all of Hollywood have a fundraiser, with all the liberals douchebags, to help the victims this time (maybe Kanye will say that obama hates white people)? Oh wait, they only do that when a Republican is in office. Barry, Barry quite contrary is the man - to them.

[JohnnyReb]

Have you noticed that the MSM can't hardly find a black person crying and screaming, "Somebodies has got to hope us!" It's a wonder they haven't hired a few.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I woke up this morning alive. No one broke into my house and murdered me and my wife while we slept. Praise 0bama for watching over us.

One time, I crossed the street without looking both ways and lived. I praise Obama for seeing me safely to the other side.

[Kyle Ricky]

Have you noticed that the MSM can't hardly find a black person crying and screaming, "Somebodies has got to hope us!" It's a wonder they haven't hired a few.

They only do that when there is a white President. That way they can stress how racist they are. Then, in the same turn, if they found a white man crying and screaming about obama's handling of the storm, they would immediately be called a racist. You see the pattern? Only the white man can be a racist. There is no way that a black man can be - *cough* Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson *cough*

[Freeper]

One time, I crossed the street without looking both ways and lived. I praise Obama for seeing me safely to the other side.

That's the spirit.

[AprilRazz]

Good thing that democrat governor Bobby Jindal had the foresight to set all the emergency plans in place before the storm.

Oh wait...he is a Republican.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal

Jindal oversaw one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history (nearly two million people) in late August 2008 prior to the Louisiana landfall of Hurricane Gustav.[49] He issued mandatory evacuation orders for the state's coastal areas and activated 3,000 National Guardsman to aid in the exodus. He also ordered the state to purchase generators to provide needed power to hospitals and nursing homes without power. Government officials vacated hospitals and nursing homes and put the poor, the ill, and the elderly on buses and trains out of town. The evacuation was credited as one reason that Gustav only resulted in 16 deaths in the U.S. The state's successful response to Hurricane Gustav was in stark contrast to the failed hurricane response system for Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jindal received bipartisan praise for his leadership during Gustav.[50][51] Jindal had been scheduled to address the Republican National Convention, but cancelled his plans to focus on Louisiana's needs during the storm

[Randy]

One time, I crossed the street without looking both ways and lived. I praise Obama for seeing me safely to the other side.

This morning I took a dump and didn't Elvis out. All Hail the Obamma!

[Splashdown]

One time, I crossed the street without looking both ways and lived. I praise Obama for seeing me safely to the other side.

Do that now, with the drone program, and they'll mail your cottontail ass a jaywalking ticket.

[hillneck]

Just as you think the DUmmies have cornered the market in stupidity, they go an take it to a higher level.   

[freedumb2003]

This morning I took a dump and didn't Elvis out. All Hail the Obamma!

I stepped out onto my deck today.  A comet didn't come out of the sky and kill me.

Praise be obama!

[Kyle Ricky]

This morning I took a dump and didn't Elvis out. All Hail the Obamma!

 

HI5!

[Jasonw560]

I drove home from town today and my car didn't burst into flames on the highway.


All Hail Obama!!!

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I had raw oysters and didn't get sick.

I praise Obama.

[GOBUCKS]

Only 1459 saved? That's nothing. How many thousands have been saved by the crazy bald dwarf's brush fire warnings?

1.3 miillion in San Diego proper.At least half owe their liives to nutcase nadin.

And what  about DUmmy malaise? She's saved half the southeastern USA from becoming a soggy wasteland of corpses.

[obumazombie]

Isaac was initially steering towards Tampa. Somehow unexplainably it veered to N.O. Bush was accused of sending Katrina to N.O. Who sent Isaac there ?

[NHSparky]

I got some fish that were from the Gulf and they came already oiled for the grill.

All hail Comrade Obama!