and now the wingnuts bashing him this week for not going, will bash him next week for going.
Itās always heads they win, tails Obama loses.
And all this hair-on-fire shit will be for nothing.
The people that complained will still find something to complain about.
But by next week no one will really remember what all the outrage was about. Or care.
ETA: Itās as if Pres. Obama waits and watches the right wingers go into a fucking frenzy. Then calmly steps in, looking sane and reasonable, making them look stupid.
Small note to the author.
Josh Earnest has a gender, and we know what it isātherefore he is a spokesman for the administration, not a spokesperson ( a word that doesnāt really exist except in the minds of the terminally politically correct.)
Iām sure CNN will have this photo handy when they empanel 4 people to extoll to the world what an imperius, uncaring President Obama is for not shoveling mud out of peopleās basements as we speak.
The governor already said, or the president to give them 10-14 days before he come down. Here is the video o the news conference and his interview on the Maddow show:
Theyāre on it as we speak . . . already setting up the narrative that the President would never have gone to Louisiana if Donald Trump hadnāt āshamed himā (CNNās words) into it.
How dare he go down there and get in the way of these American heroes for a photo op!
Trump speaks from a hockey rink outside Lansing, MI shortly.
Flint is about 45 minutes away, Donnie.
Introductory speaker says the nation has two big problems----Washington DC and Hollywood.
Hollywood?
Fricking intro speaker is in Lansing, home of the Michigan State Spartans, and he tries to enlist the crowd in a āMichiganā chant after saying theyāre great sport fans. People are like āWTF?ā
Trump at podium. OMG, every single place he goes the FIRST thing out of his mouth is the crowd has set a record for that venue.
Factory work is coming back to America.
Bragging about Louisiana flood tour. āObama ought to get off the golf course and go down thereā
No more jobs are leaving America.
Elect Trump and millions of high paying jobs will return.
The nationās infrastructure will be replaced.
Families on welfare will be provided jobs.
Children will go to the school of their choice.
We will build the wall!! (Cheers!!! Chants of build that wall, rising, getting louder)
Law and order will be restored
American values and culture will be cherished and celebrated again. (YOU WILL SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!)
No group in America has been hurt more in American history than by Hillary Clinton
Asking for the vote of every African-American. To a lily white audience.
Dimondale, MIā96.4% White, .075% black.
I am an enthusiastic supporter of the president, but he really blew this. And it came at a very bad time. If it made sense for him not to go to Louisiana for two weeks after the flooding occurred, he should have been on TV with the FEMA Director and Governor Edwards days ago laying out the strategy and explaing how important it was for the politicians to stay away so FEMA could do its job. He is playing catch-up now-- and to one of the most loathsome people ever to get close to the presidency. Iām not happy about it, and I donāt think TPMers shpuld be giving him a pass.
Loud chants of āLock her up!!ā
āAt the end of four years I guarantee Iāll get 95% of the African-American votes. I guarantee it!!ā
Hillaryās policies are taking jobs away from African-American workers.
Mexico is taking our jobs.
Man, heās hammering this African-American theme HARD.
If heās spoken the phrase āAfrican-Americanā 5 times heās spoken it 20. Itās gotten weird.
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Heckuva job, Donnie: Trump tours flooded Louisiana, in spite of governorās āphoto opā admonishment
Well, perhaps you should co-sign Rudy Giulianiās sternly worded statement attacking Gov. Edwards and President Obama.
I on the other hand have no fucks to give.
Edit. Giuliani also takes the opportunity, in the middle of his diatribe, to hawk his book. So, in actuality my fucks to give can be quantified as a negative number of indeterminate magnitude. Or maybe, i, the square root of -1.
And speaking of photo ops in the midst of devastating Louisiana floodsā¦
Almost a third of the stateās Republicans blame President Obama for Hurricane Katrina.
Only 28% blame President Bush.
The rest donāt know whom to blame.
Can anyone explain how thatās even possible?
Do Louisiana Republicans deliberately feed lead-paint chips to their children?
Does the stateās entire GOP population live under power lines or in 24/7 exposure to gasoline fumes?
Is the Duck Dynasty clan so big that it comprises the majority of registered Republicans?
Iām at a total loss how anyone with an undamaged brain stem can even think thatā¦
Did you see the statement? He said he specifically worked with his disaster team and Gov. Edwards to determine the best time to go to LA. He ceded to the wishes of the Gov and I canāt fault him for that.
I wouldnāt be giving the President a pass if he didnāt sign the FEMA orders within hours of receiving it.
Heās also about an hour or so from one of the largest Arab Populations in the US. But you knowā¦kick em all out.
Iāll take a stab at a hypothesis ā an intractably poor educational system, long-term, institutionalized ignorance and racism and too many corn dogs.