Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:25:09 PM
How bad does a natural disaster need to be that even Hurrican Katrina workers say it's bad?
This bad.
You could write all day about the correlation and contrasts to this and the Katrina disaster. True, the loss of life is not nearly as bad (does it matter?) but there is one similarity which isn't getting much, if any, press - the lack of any response from FEMA.
There is another contrast which isn't getting much press either - how the citizens of Kentucky are "mowing through" this disaster as opposed to the citizens of Louisiana (particularly New Orleans). Kentuckians are helping one another, are working to get things back on, etc. The citizens of New Orleans had their hands out.
Additionally, there is no excoriating of Obama for his obvious lack of concern for Kentucky. Bush was hung out to dry by a lot of people for reading to school kids on September 11th. Obama is out with the wife reading to school kids while his fellow citizens of Kentucky go without power. Some might argue that the Kentucky ice storm isn't on the scale of September 11th. True. However, how many days was it after Katrina that Bush went to New Orleans and the Gulf coast? Three or five days? I forget exactly (it was within days) but he went to the area and did his job.
This ice storm was what, two weeks ago? People in Kentucky are STILL without basic services (and FEMA) like electricity - and Obama is out with the wife reading to school kids. He hasn't even visited Kentucky. No wringing of hands from the Left, the kook left finge or the leftist media about Obama not doing ANYTHING for Kentucky. Amazingly there is also no conspiratorial outcry about why Obama isn't doing anything about Kentucky because most of those affected by the storm and without services are poor white folk. No mention as to how the power lines "were brought down". Perhaps those power lines were destroyed by demolition (like the levies in New Orleans)?
Crickets.
Obama reads, people freeze.