Obama takes charge at the Hurricane Center:
I mean really: does he look like a man who has a clue about what to do? Ponder the official NOAA name plate emblazoned with “Barack Obama President of the United States.” Why does that seem ridiculous? After all, he is the President of the United States. Maybe it’s because it put me in mind of that iconic image of Mike Dukakis in his tank. Anyway, if it failed to be reassuring, it did introduce a welcome moment of levity.
I agree with Frank J. that he could be productively replaced with a sack of hammers. As he says, it’s not even close.
maybe they put his name on a chair so he would stay out of the way
The mandatory photo ops of the President and his entourage touring disaster sites have always struck me as a bit absurd.
I’d like to see the day when a President loads up Air Force with emergency supplies and relief workers and sends it off, saying “I think they’d be more useful there than I would.”
Or maybe the day POTUS just didn’t make a pronouncement. And let NOAA or some other weather outfit take the lead.
The big deal was the NYC is so firmly a Democrat / Obama loving city he DIDN’T dare not show his face and show some quivering chin for their plight. He’s a camera ho’, plain and simple.
I’d like to see the day when a President loads up Air Force with emergency supplies and relief workers and sends it off, saying “I think they’d be more useful there than I would.”
I mean this with all sincerity, but it doesn’t work. I say this because after Katrina, my office window over looked Ellington Field. The scene looked almost like the Berlin airlift with C-130s and C-17s taking off regularly to ferry supplies into New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Mississippi. I saw maybe a few local stories about it, and maybe a one line mention in the national news. Of course, there were all the US Coast Guard helicopters that apparently, considering the blame given to the federal government, showed up on their own accord.
Leland, I think it’d work because it is pointed against the way things are done that the press and the opposition would have to say something about it, if merely to dismiss it.