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Barack Obama Ignores Tennessee Flood Victims In Favor of Haiti and Chile

If only Nashville had changed its name to Los Nashvilla

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 6th, 2010 at 10:11 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

For those of you who think this administration really is malicious — okay, when it comes to free markets, capitalism, and the greatest of the country I’m with you — we have greater examples that the President and his advisors really are just amateurish.

On April 30th, Barack Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation declaring today the National Day of Prayer.

In it, he wrote,

Let us remember in our thoughts and prayers those suffering from natural disasters in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere, and the people from those countries and from around the world who have worked tirelessly and selflessly to render aid. Let us pray for the families of the West Virginia miners, and the people of Poland who so recently and unexpectedly lost many of their beloved leaders

The next day, Tennessee began to flood, people began to die, and things changed pretty dramatically.

Barack Obama has still, to my knowledge, not spoken personally of the events in Tennessee or attempted to visit — an act that would have gotten George W. Bush savagely attacked by the press, Democrats, and Congress.

More troubling, Barack Obama neither altered the National Day of Prayer Proclamation nor issued a subsequent one.

Heck, even Bob McDonnell reissued his Confederate History Proclamation to include a line about slavery.

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  • johnt

    Was it from the top of a minaret?
    Maybe Hussien figures Tennessee is going Republican so why bother.

  • itdiehard

    Don’t it go 2 to 1 democrats districts? You want a shutout, then vote for Dem’s. I believe this administrator is telling the populous you wrong me you will be punished.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    …The great tragedy, as we knew from the film, is that the sponsors of this administration, which is incompetent, not amateurish, the nth degree, can never allow it to be exposed.

    For conservatives, as Milton Friedman once said, our saving grace may be that incompetence, if we cna just prevent or mitigate the damage before it’s too late.

  • smitch61

    The President of the states that voted for him.

    LOL johnt.. prayer rug!

  • shaitra
  • usadying

    My heart goes out to them. I lived in TN for 11 years. It’s a beautiful state with great people. They are strong and will get through this.

  • blooch

    in case of a successful terror strike:

    Bush’s Failure Led To…..

  • Common_Cents

    Obama’s SOP for a disaster is to first dispatch a DOJ SWAT team to find a private enterprise or political opponent to blame.

  • wolfgang

    ….to Pennsylvania, where according to THE OBAMBI’s remarks in San Francisco, “When times get bad they sink more deeply into their God and their guns”? Or perhaps because a lot of the victims were white?
    Based on his voter appeal of recent weeks he knows exactly who his base is.
    We’ll have definite proof the next time a SWAT Team is called out to confront a bunch of Tea Party Grandmothers and the SWAT team then elects to use truncheons on the grannies.

  • texasgalt

    and just Being There is pi** poor management. Even most bad managers have some sort of a hint that crisis management is better than no management. Bambi’s bunch. . . they always seem to be on holiday.

    I’d take Chauncey over Obama. Obama*thinks* he is so smart that he believes he can walk on water. Chauncey could walk on water because he was too dumb to know he couldn’t. I prefer innocence to arrogance but pray harm on the sponsors of incompetence.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica Estrada

    If only he had sent half as many troops to protect the people along the border as he sent to Haiti..

    Maybe he should “invade” Mexico.

    It’s worse than Afghanistan right now.

  • spainishirish

    The local congressman, Jim Cooper, is both a Democrat and an Obama sycophant. Voters need to remember both those things.

    As for Nashvillians, it is nice to know there remains sections of the United States that don’t have to have feds holding their hands during horrfiic crises. This probably will make Obama angry rather than sympathetic, particularly given this is shaping up to be the largest financial non-hurricane disaster in American history.

  • spainishirish

    The local congressman, Jim Cooper, is both a Democrat and an Obama sycophant. Voters need to remember both those things.

    As for Nashvillians, it is nice to know there remains sections of the United States that don’t have to have feds holding their hands during horrfiic crises. This probably will make Obama angry rather than sympathetic, particularly given this is shaping up to be the largest financial non-hurricane disaster in American history.

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    very late. Somewhere in history, or maybe film, there’s some report as to how an agent other than the usual suspects (the media) was able to successfully announce to the world that the emporer was buck naked.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    (only remotely related by SubTitle and comments following the Cinco De Mayo holiday fiascos mindset (and not having noticed an Open Thread)…)

    Perhaps the people in TN should all be flying Mexican (or Haiti/Chile) Flags in order to get relief. Being anything PRO UNITED STATES gets one nothing but the Lefty disdain… Another one of the evidences of the Lefty-loons engrained into and running our Public Sector Systems is/was: Students sent home for wearing AMERICAN FLAG APPEARAL to School (Video Story (here))… Not that it will shock/surprise anyone!

  • mom2oneson

    Look at how much attention Katrina got over hurricanes in FL or the floods in IA. McCain who was running made mention of a potentional threat for NOLA again – just a potentional one – while parts of North FL were dealing with flooding but not a peep about that. President Obama was praying too. First we criticize him for not being a Christian and now we attack his prayers?

    We should not be attacking the politicans response to these situations so much without knowing all the government does behind the scenes like staging the national guard, supplies, medical teams, etc. It was awful the way republicans attacked Bush for Katrina and did not stand up for him. FL has a lot of hurricanes and Bush was never attacked like that, ever.

    I got bashed in the Haiti thread about things taking time but they do. It takes time for the VIP visits to take place.

  • mom2oneson

    Look at how much attention Katrina got over hurricanes in FL or the floods in IA. McCain who was running made mention of a potentional threat for NOLA again – just a potentional one – while parts of North FL were dealing with flooding but not a peep about that. President Obama was praying too. First we criticize him for not being a Christian and now we attack his prayers?

    We should not be attacking the politicans response to these situations so much without knowing all the government does behind the scenes like staging the national guard, supplies, medical teams, etc. It was awful the way republicans attacked Bush for Katrina and did not stand up for him. FL has a lot of hurricanes and Bush was never attacked like that, ever.

    I got bashed in the Haiti thread about things taking time but they do. It takes time for the VIP visits to take place.

  • mom2oneson
  • tngal

    Not that we needed him mind you. Maybe that’s why he didn’t show. It would prove he couldn’t walk on water.

    Our Dem gov (the one who built the bunker) has everything under control. He says he has been in contact with obiwan. So between the two of them,
    everything’s just dandy.

  • texasgalt

    in your state! Let the sun shine on good old Rocky Top.

  • leftylurker

    The Governor of Tennessee seems pretty happy with the President’s response. He says in this article that he’s very pleased.

    http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0510/volunteering_praise_940f60a7-26d0-4d7b-b9c9-44b0e523f157.html

    Also, johnt, Obama=Muslim? Really? Are you still pushing that?

  • southernilpat

    The Democrat governor says he’s pleased with Obama. What a shock.

  • Obis_Sister

    When NW Georgia flooded last fall in the ’500 year flood,’ all we got was a stupid Biden fly-over.

    Obama couldn’t be bothered to utter the word GEORGIA.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    the TN flood, but why the media in general is ignoring it.

    From her post at NewsReal:

    There is no story of the ?haves? taking advantage of the ?have-nots,? only neighbors and churches and communities across the bible-belt pulling together.

    No one is calling for a faster cape-clad Uncle Sam. We?re not blaming Obama, Bush, the Tea Party or any corporation. So what?s a leftist media to cover?

    Conclusion?no real story here.

    Still, though, this is shaping up to be the costliest natural disaster since Katrina and I am also wondering why no response from the White House.

    But then again it did take him 8 days to make a statement about the oil spill…

  • voicefromthevoid

    Read, learn “The theory of socialist revolution” for the Christ sake! The worse – the better, that’s what it says, that’s what BHO does. No more, no less.

    Chile, Haiti and whoever else get a nod because it’s the reason to spend more US dollars elsewhere increasing the deficit.

    All that works to the same ends goes…

  • voicefromthevoid

    Really?

  • buckjohnsonii

    This post is both silly and stupid. It is the reason why repubs lost by 8 million votes. Keep up this strategy against a man who drew 100,000 to a speech last week. It failed before, and will fail again.

  • leftylurker

    The fact that President Obama is a crypto-muslim, or the fact that he went to Reverend Wright’s church for years?

    Come on. This is some tinfoil hat conspiracy theory stuff. There are plenty of real policy disagreements and issues that need fixing. Wasting time on manchurian candidate fantasies is just a distraction.

  • janis

    the local ABC affiliate skewer Anderson Cooper on film last night. The reporter asked him point blank why he hadn’t been there sooner to cover this. He mumbled stuff about the oil spill in the Gulf, the terrorist attack in NYC, etc. She interviewed him while he was out in the previously flooded areas, where people were hard at work taking care of themselves.

    He was utterly gobsmacked to see the level of organization and the numbers of volunteers that were busy doing what needed to be done. He said that he had been to many disaster areas, but had never once seen people start taking care of business so quickly. He kept saying that over and over, that he was just amazed to see so many people doing all this stuff themselves. They were hauling out furniture, appliances, damaged drywall, wet insulation, etc. and they weren’t sitting on their butts with their hands out while wailing at someone to fix it for them.

    The other thing is that so much of the organization had nothing to do with government. It had to do with churches from all over the area. They provided volunteers, needed supplies, food to feed the volunteers, etc. And, of course, lots of prayers. Also, looting hasn’t been much of an issue because some of the first signs that went up on people’s houses were “Looters will be shot.” And in Tennessee, they mean it. The Metro police also made sure that helicopters were in the air over the flooded neighborhoods to insure that any would-be looters understood that they would be seen and dealt with.

    All in all, we don’t need no stinking D.C. presence to get the job done. We’ve got God, each other and our guns.

  • penguin2

    what is best about America. The independent spirit equals the American spirit. The Leftists elitists don’t get it because they need people to be dependent to keep them in power. In fact they fear people like you and either try to ignore your existence or tear you down when you show up contradicting their mantra.

    Tennesseans are the perfect example of refuted victimhood, thus the media has nothing to gain from being there with you.

  • Xasteius

    a self-reliant citizenry not dependent on the central government.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    No victims screaming for gubmint aid, no news. As for Cooper, I wish I had seen that bit with the local reporter. I’m sure he expected to see at least some wailing and gnashing of teeth. Instead he saw work being done.

    Oh yeah. Hey Ray Nagin. This is how you deal with a natural disaster, pal. Pay attention, ya might learn something.

  • janis

    you will probably find the video of the interview with Anderson Cooper. He stammered and stumbled pretty well about why they didn’t cover it sooner.

    To add a pretty ironic twist to this, Metro Nashville’s Police Chief is Ronald Serpas, previously of the New Orleans Police Dept. He just got back from an interview in NO for the job of THEIR police chief. He has said that he wouldn’t leave Nashville until the majority of the flood damage is over with and life returns to normal. His next statement kind of floored me, though “I won’t leave until at least next week.”

    Yeah, I expect all that flood damage to be resolved in a week, too. Just like in New Orleans…..

  • rivahmitch

    That’s also why the Kenyan Marxist hates the U.S. and what it represents but he’s trying to “fundamentally restructure” it in a more dependent and “receptive” mode for his governmental control and every disaster helps.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    here. Oh, and Anderson? just so you know, Fox has been there.

    Serpas sounds like he needs to just go on. I’m sure Nashville has plenty of officers on the force that are well qualified to take his place.

  • DavidS1787

    Obama can’t focus on more than one thing at a time and does not have any clue of how to dispatch people to natural disasters, Terrorist attacks, or oil spills. This has been very obvious the last few days especially.

    1.In Tennessee Obama could have sent FEMA if he really wanted to. Why the inaction? Did Janet Napolitano tell Obama that the floods in Tennesse weren’t that bad? I wonder? She has said nothing on the response nor the recovery that I am aware of. Why hasn’t the president make a statement?

    This is like a bad episode of leave it to beaver!

  • DavidS1787

    than addressing Natural Disaters or anything else.

  • DavidS1787

    than addressing Natural Disaters or anything else.

  • squibster1

    squibster1 May 16th 12:43 pm

    Obama only has one thing on his mind, to destroy America in any way shape or form.This so called president, is nothing but a community organizer at best. Do you now when most politicians lie, (when they open thier mouth)
    There is an old saying (figure’s don’t lie and lier’s don’t figure)

  • lukematthews

    This regime only cares about its own interest groups of which Tennessee is not one.

  • lukematthews

    This regime only cares about its own interest groups of which Tennessee is not one.

  • 2coolbaby

    I live in Nashville. Our governor talked to Obama immediately after the flooding, and when Obama offered to visit, he told him he didn’t want a presidential visit because it takes too many resources, which were better used to deal with the flooding. He also said that FEMA was there “before the first raindrops fell!”

    Since the flood, Obama has had a slew of officials visiting to try to keep the medias attention on this. He has several government agencies on the ground in Nashville, working to set things right. He declared flooded areas disaster areas so they could get emergency funding. Nashville government has actually been surprised at how MUCH he has done and how quickly.