Republicans blame Obama for poor Katrina response

[Wildtree]

Thanks Obama. I always knew it.

A little psychic are we?

[mvaliz]

If Bush was so terrible, wretched, and a miserable failure of a president then why did he get elected a second time? Bush wasn't really that bad. Obama takes over and look at your precious country now, it's not going any better than it was before.

I will not post the reason my country did that due to obvious infraction-risks. Suffice it to say, it's the same reason this thread was created. Whether you choose to acknowledge that reason or not - the rest of the world knows seems to know better. :P

But I will also mention that debacle in Florida didn't help either, which was incidentally in both cases - particularly when his brother Jeb was the mayor of that state.

[Deleted]

So out of all the people you could possibly take information from, you base your hate on the right wing based on the freaking Louisianna Republicans?
And what is worse of all is that your title leads everyone who did not click the article to believe that Republicans as a whole are blaming Obama for that.
Have a little common sense. Not every Republican is as narrow minded as they are much like not every Democrat is not as pro-everything as the people in DC who have absolutely 0 idea what is going on in the rest of the world outside from the subburbs...

[Rukentuts]

A little psychic are we?

He needed a crisis to confine people to FEMA camps so he made one. That tricksy bugger.

[Deleted]

A little psychic are we?

You do realize he is being ironic right?

[Rukentuts]

You do realize he is being ironic right?

Yeah he knows.

[Jaxi]

So we can conclude that when republicans see an option to blame Obama for anything they take it. I'm sure if you made a poll that asked if Obama was to blame for 9/11 you would get a bunch of votes to.

Just for reference Katrina was in 2005 and Obama was elected president in 2008...

721 polled, 29% say Obama, in Louisiana of all places, obviously all Republicans will blame Obama when they get a chance!

[Deleted]

If Bush was so terrible, wretched, and a miserable failure of a president then why did he get elected a second time?

Hmm, hard to say it honestly but... Oh well... let's say that a lot of 'Muricans are dumb... (the same can be said in France, Sarkozy got elected in 2007...)

[Rukentuts]

Hmm, hard to say it honestly but... Oh well... let's say that a lot of 'Muricans are dumb... (the same can be said in France, Sarkozy got elected in 2007...)

Well to be honest a lot of Bush's stupidity wasn't actively publicized until his later years. 2004 was still a little early for most, and the Dems put up a loser candidate (Kerry) to combat him.

[Wildtree]

He needed a crisis to confine people to FEMA camps so he made one. That tricksy bugger.

True that.. He summoned Sandy, Fox News working already on the fact sheet.

[ringpriest]

Which Bush? Sr or Jr?
Does it really matter?

Bush the Lesser, aka "Shrub", "W". I thought it was clear from context, mea culpa.[/quote]

Now for Obama....
Obama's failure isn't Obama's problem. Obama's failure is entirely artificial, and if anyone's to blame then it's the American public as a whole.
He has been seen and taken as the political messiah of the country. One man to make the long overdue change. And I am pretty convinced that's exactly what he wanted to do.. Just turns out that both - the country and Obama - forgot one key component. Congress!
At this point and time, you could have the most capable and best President the country could ever have in Office, and the outcome would be mediocre at best.

Nonsense. Obama chose to enter office having approved his predecessor's corporate bailout. He chose to appoint establishment statists like Holder and Geithner, and he continued to allow them to keep their jobs while they acted in direct opposition to his promises. His chose to have the crimes of the George W. Bush administration to be swept under the rug, save for the ones he decided to continue himself. From making back-door deals with health insurance and drug companies while lying about it to the public, to ignoring rampant mortgage fraud, to doubling down on some of Bush's worst choices (widespread surveillance and the drone war), Obama's failure as a president was very much his own choice.

[MustangMark83]

You can critisize Obama all you want... but I simply cannot fathom how ANYBODY can possibly say that Obama is worse than the President who sent us to two useless wars costing thousands of American and innocent lives, failed to capture Bin-Laden, failed to send aid/response to Katrina, the subsequent pushing forward and OKing of torture, the constant feed of oil field sales of the Iraq War going to his Vice President's interests, and his Republican policies led to the near total collapse of the US and world economy...

But hey, I guess Obama's quick response and defense of Sandy (particularly when it helped a political opponent at the time, Chris Christie), his admin nabbing Bin-Laden, the ending the war in Iraq, the current withdrawal of troops out of Afganastan and efforts to establish good healthcare for all Americans don't mean much... It's like they're saying "if the president doesn't instantly make America like it was in 1984, then he's CRAP!!!"

Our ass-kicking navy seals got bin laden, not Obama, nor his administration. Idiot.

[Chingylol]

Our ass-kicking navy seals got bin laden, not Obama, nor his administration. Idiot.

Yea, and Bin Ladin had nothing to do with 9/11 by your logic, since he wasn't actually there.

[Deleted]

Our ass-kicking navy seals got bin laden, not Obama, nor his administration. Idiot.

To be fair, the SEALs went in and did the wetwork but I seriously doubt that they did much in actually finding Bin Laden. I think the CIA are more to credit that to.

[Siddown]

If this were the movies, you could argue that Obama was actually a GOP plant to ensure the long term success of the Republican Party.

In his first term, Obama pretty much maintained the status quo on taxes and despite the fact that we were pulling out of the wars, we were still there. He kept GitMo, he continued spying on people, etc., etc. So really, life for a Republican was no different in Obama's first term than it was under Bush.

Sure, Obama got healthcare through, but it's not single payer, and is a plan that requires all American's to purchase healthcare from private companies, which is a pretty sweet deal for those private companies. American companies and citizens already pay through the roof for healthcare compared to every other first world nation and this won't reduce that any which is why Dole introduced the idea back in the 90s and why Romney instituted it in Massachusetts.

But really, by getting elected, two major things have happened that makes the GOP giddy.

1) Racism is over, Justice Roberts even said so! Which is why the SCOTUS declawed the Voting Rights Act, and the southern states pounced instantly restricting the ability for minorities to vote.

2) The term "socialism" and "marxist" have been used more in the past 5 years than in the previous 25. Based purely on what he's done, Obama is a pretty right wing president. He kept the Bush taxcuts and payroll taxcuts for his first term, he's kept the same military spending (corporate welfare for the GOP base), he's still providing massive tax credits to the oil and gas industry, and he's even proposed lowering the corporate tax rate...yet, somehow he's a Socialist? Marxist? Sure, he's thrown some token money at "green" energy, but with Obama in power, the GOP has basically reset what the "center" is when it comes to economics. If Obama is left economically, I honestly have no idea what "right" is.

So the groundwork has been planted for the GOP. They lost eight years of the presidency, but really the end result will be a country where the GOP have the most voting control they've had since the 60s and a public who is so daft they don't even realize how far they've shifted to the right.

Honestly, if they only had a candidate who doesn't come across as a complete DB, they'll win 2016 in a landslide.

Of course, this isn't a movie, so obviously Obama isn't a plant, just a guy who has been a mediocre to poor President.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

This is how I feel about those republicans who say this with a straight face.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM

[Wildtree]

Bush the Lesser, aka "Shrub", "W". I thought it was clear from context, mea culpa.

I asked does it matter.....
Because it doesn't..
Your comprehensive list of Obama failures translates into one sentence: This is how DC rolls...
Bipartisanship and Lobbyism dictate the country, and not the individual that happens to become President.

[Rukentuts]

Yea, and Bin Ladin had nothing to do with 9/11 by your logic, since he wasn't actually there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command...#United_States

[NYC17]

If Bush was so terrible, wretched, and a miserable failure of a president then why did he get elected a second time? Bush wasn't really that bad. Obama takes over and look at your precious country now, it's not going any better than it was before.

Gay marriage on the ballet in Ohio.

Next question.

Oh, and Kerry was a shitpoor candidate which made the success of swiftboating even easier to accomplish.

[Tinykong]

Wait, we're surprised that average Americans have no concept of how the government functions and who is in charge of what?