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Originally posted by: snidely333
The level of competency must be judged, to a large degree, by the people affected by the storm. I have many friends and co-workers without power. They are coping. I've heard no one complaining about the government's response to the disaster. They all understand that the "powers that be" are doing the best they can with the situation. No expects the president to be on the ground delivering gas or food to people.
Christie is getting very high grades on his handling of the situation not just by his leadership, but also by praising Obama and not getting into a political partisan issue.
The bottom line is that it's going to take some time to get all the power restored. The town next to mine has set up a rescue area for some people displaced by the storm. A local kids' hockey team is organizing a donation area. I dropped some stuff off at lunch time and the area was very busy with people donating.
Bottom line is that we appreciate all the government can do but we're not thinking that they are 100% responsible for the clean-up and care of our displaced neighbors.
Originally posted by: snidely333
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Originally posted by: hoops2
What I said was that the level of incompetence was the same, the difference is in how the media reports it. For Katrina the response was reported as a disaster, for Sandy it isn't.
President Bush was killed in the media for being on vacation, while it is ok for Obama to go off campaigning. 7 days now and many areas have no power, food, water or gas.
Meanwhile we have nanny bloomberg who spent the summer worrying about Big Gulps and butter popcorn and wanted to run a race thru this mess.
The level of competency must be judged, to a large degree, by the people affected by the storm. I have many friends and co-workers without power. They are coping. I've heard no one complaining about the government's response to the disaster. They all understand that the "powers that be" are doing the best they can with the situation. No expects the president to be on the ground delivering gas or food to people.
Christie is getting very high grades on his handling of the situation not just by his leadership, but also by praising Obama and not getting into a political partisan issue.
The bottom line is that it's going to take some time to get all the power restored. The town next to mine has set up a rescue area for some people displaced by the storm. A local kids' hockey team is organizing a donation area. I dropped some stuff off at lunch time and the area was very busy with people donating.
Bottom line is that we appreciate all the government can do but we're not thinking that they are 100% responsible for the clean-up and care of our displaced neighbors.
