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hands and ORDER ISAAC to "go away" ...just go away" and it will as fewer and fewer people now believe ...
"I mean in a way Obamas standing above the country, above above the world, hes sort of God." Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
Newsweek
Or will Obama remember WHAT he said about Katrina and the "Federal Government primarily at fault..?
Obama being quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times September 5, 2005 Monday Lynn Sweet column--
"I think there were a set of assumptions made by federal officials that people would hop in their SUVs, and top off with a $100 tank of gas and [get some] Poland Spring water," and flee the storm, Obama said.
The tragedy, said Obama, revealed "how little inner-city African Americans have to fall back on. But that has been true for decades."
What I've learned about covering Obama, a freshman senator, is that he is very measured.
On Friday night, rapper Kanye West, during a hurricane relief concert, said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
I asked Obama if he agreed.
"What I think is that we as a society and this administration in particular have not been willing to make sacrifices or shape an agenda to help low-income people," he said.
Obama also rejected the suggestion that local and state officials were to blame for the horrific response in Louisiana.
The breakdown occurred at all levels, but "I hold the federal government primarily responsible," he said.
Hurricane Katrina Anniversary: What Obama said in 2005 - Lynn Sweet
"I mean in a way Obamas standing above the country, above above the world, hes sort of God." Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
Newsweek
Or will Obama remember WHAT he said about Katrina and the "Federal Government primarily at fault..?
Obama being quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times September 5, 2005 Monday Lynn Sweet column--
"I think there were a set of assumptions made by federal officials that people would hop in their SUVs, and top off with a $100 tank of gas and [get some] Poland Spring water," and flee the storm, Obama said.
The tragedy, said Obama, revealed "how little inner-city African Americans have to fall back on. But that has been true for decades."
What I've learned about covering Obama, a freshman senator, is that he is very measured.
On Friday night, rapper Kanye West, during a hurricane relief concert, said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
I asked Obama if he agreed.
"What I think is that we as a society and this administration in particular have not been willing to make sacrifices or shape an agenda to help low-income people," he said.
Obama also rejected the suggestion that local and state officials were to blame for the horrific response in Louisiana.
The breakdown occurred at all levels, but "I hold the federal government primarily responsible," he said.
Hurricane Katrina Anniversary: What Obama said in 2005 - Lynn Sweet