Thread: Washington Post: Obama is golfing during Louisiana flooding because he 'detests' theatrical politics

Talk about bending over backwards to excuse your liberal president when everybody including Obama bashed Bush during the last NO flood. It's almost laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.
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The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza has a hot take on why President Obama is not breaking off his vacation, or even his golf game, to travel down to Louisiana this week. At least 11 people have died and 40,000 homes have been damaged in flooding that swept through the state, but Cillizza says Obama is keeping it real:

Obama just doesn't like to fake it. If he doesn't want to do something or thinks it's stupid to do it — regardless of whether it actually is stupid — he won't do it....

That's why Obama won't break off his vacation in Martha's Vineyard — or stop playing golf on said vacation — to travel to Louisiana. Because he believes he can monitor the situation as well — or better — from where he is. And that the sole reason to go to Louisiana is for the theatrical piece of politics, a piece that he not only rejects but detests.

Does Obama really detest theatrical politics? That must come as a surprise to everyone who watched him tour the aftermath of hurricane Sandy in New Jersey shortly before the 2012 election:



This image is one I remember seeing a lot at the time. The Telegraph used this picture for a story titled, "Has Hurricane Sandy given new life and hope to President Barack Obama?" (The woman pictured says she ultimately got a form letter after reaching out to the president.)



And that's certainly not the only time Obama has toured the site of a natural disaster to create photo ops. In May 2013 he visited Oklahoma after a massive tornado. The NY Times published a story titled, "Obama consoles town flattened by tornado" with this photo (by Doug Mills for the NY Times):



Clearly this is a man who "detests" theatrical politics:

I'd say the main difference between then and now is that then, President Obama was running for re-election.

He didn't need to be in NJ then anymore than he needs to be in LA now.

Originally Posted by njtom

I'd say the main difference between then and now is that then, President Obama was running for re-election.

He didn't need to be in NJ then anymore than he needs to be in LA now.

Good point. Just like he wasn't for same sex marriage until after he was reelected and it didn't matter any more.

Exactly, politicians in most cases just do what is in their best interest which is getting re-elected.

Now that he is lame duck he is embolden to show his true colors... which means more fascism is on the way.

If Trump were to win, I'm thinking bama will make a play to declare a national emergency, and go to marshall law permanently and all the muzlim sleep cells will come out and help him do it.

If hillery wins, there will be a deceptively peacful transition of power... from the frying pan into the fire.

Might be good to look at what the Governor of Louisiana has to say about it:

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" Edwards has also made clear that he asked the President not to visit the state just yet, due to the drain on resources that a federally protected figure and his necessary entourage can tend to have when traveling into a disaster area."

Originally Posted by Lista

Might be good to look at what the Governor of Louisiana has to say about it:

link to page

" Edwards has also made clear that he asked the President not to visit the state just yet, due to the drain on resources that a federally protected figure and his necessary entourage can tend to have when traveling into a disaster area."

Funny how that same excuse did not fly when President Bush flew over the state when Katrina hit rather than arrive on the ground. Oh, wait.. that's right. President Bush was a much hated, evil, Republican. Anything he did was by default wrong.

Originally Posted by Susan

Funny how that same excuse did not fly when President Bush flew over the state when Katrina hit rather than arrive on the ground. Oh, wait.. that's right. President Bush was a much hated, evil, Republican. Anything he did was by default wrong.

Not to mention, as Kanye said, Bush hates black people.

Originally Posted by Susan

Funny how that same excuse did not fly when President Bush flew over the state when Katrina hit rather than arrive on the ground. Oh, wait.. that's right. President Bush was a much hated, evil, Republican. Anything he did was by default wrong.

I was just saying there was a flip side to this discussion.

Originally Posted by Lista

I was just saying there was a flip side to this discussion.

Not with liberals... they listen to satan so the only side that matters is the deception they spew.

This political correctness thing will lead the world directly into the one world government / one world religion that God said would come to pass in the end times.

PC is how they will do it, and sheeple will follow the piper straight in to hell... including many who claim to be Christians.

All they had to do is go by God's Book!

Originally Posted by Lista

Might be good to look at what the Governor of Louisiana has to say about it:

link to page

" Edwards has also made clear that he asked the President not to visit the state just yet, due to the drain on resources that a federally protected figure and his necessary entourage can tend to have when traveling into a disaster area."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/21/politi...elpful/http://

Washington (CNN)The governor of Louisiana said Sunday that Donald Trump's trip to his state was "helpful" in getting the country's attention on the devastating flooding around Baton Rouge.

Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, had released a statement before the GOP nominee's visit decrying a "photo-op," but Edwards told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" Sunday that Trump had always been welcome if he were coming to be "helpful."

"Because it helped to shine a spotlight on Louisiana and on the dire situation that we have here ... it was helpful," Edwards said.