Blue Sky for Obama - Nothing but Blue Sky

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Media: Katrina crashes into New Orleans, FEMA responds feebly and President Bush is blamed for the loss of life and limb. Winter smacks middle America, killing 55, FEMA's late again, but President Obama gets a pass.

Last week's winter storm, paying no attention to Al Gore's warnings about global warming, has left a trail of dead and broken bodies and wrecked property from the Plains to the East Coast. Of the 55 deaths, 24 have been in hard-hit Kentucky.

Throughout the region, hundreds of thousands are still without power and some survivors have had to resort to using melted snow for their water supply. A shortage of gasoline and heating oil has made life miserable for many.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear called the ice storm "the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced, at least in modern history." The Federal Emergency Management Agency, however, apparently didn't get the memo. Much as they did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, locals are complaining that FEMA has not been swift enough in delivering aid.

Nothing remarkable about that. FEMA, whose performance in the 2005 Katrina disaster wasn't exactly sterling, is a federal agency that supplements state and local authorities. It's not an on-site organization and can't respond instantly. That's the job of the city, county and state governments.

Sensing that the gloomy stories gushing out of New Orleans were the perfect platform from which to lash into the president, an opportunistic media-political-celebrity pack roundly accused Bush of negligence, incompetence and outright malice.

From rapper Kanye West's immediate charge that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's blog entry from just over a month ago lamenting that Bush did a "terrible" job of handling of the disaster, smears rained down in a devastating storm of their own.

The bitter criticism achieved its intended effect. Many people believe that Bush's FEMA response — or more accurately the media's biased portrayal of it — was the moment he began to lose the public.

Meanwhile, Obama, whose administration on taking office vilified Bush on Katrina, has done no more for the victims of the winter storm. Yet no tirade has been forthcoming from either the media or the loopy orbit of Celebrity Planet.

The double standard is what we've come to expect, but it's not what we should continue to accept.


THOSE FOLKS IN KENTUCKY ARE MADE OF SOME PRETTY TOUGH STUFF! (Steve Gill)


An email from a person in Graves County, Kentucky who hasn't seen all those FEMA people that President Obama and the Governor have been touting. Keep these folks in your prayers, as they continue to be ignored by the mainstream media and their President.

"I am a resident of Graves County in Western Kentucky and live in an area that has been devastated by the Ice Storm.  Members of my family have been without electricity since Tuesday Night Jan 27, 2009.  We have been told that is will be up to 4 weeks before the power will be up and running.   I am very disappointed in President Obama for not showing any interest at all in my state.  I did not vote for Obama because I felt his qualifications and lack of experience would lead this country in a downward spiral and cause great damage to our would status.  I saw video and pictures of President Bush personally going to areas of devastation after Katrina, Rita, Tornado Damaged regions, etc. once the areas were secure and safe for travel.  I find it hard to believe that Obama shows no interest in a state that has had a record number of people affected by the Ice Storm with no power.  Is Obama afraid of the gun toting, God fearing, patriotic citizens of the Great State of Kentucky?  Is it because Kentucky did not vote/support him in the election?  Or is it because his handlers have not told him what to do yet? (i.e. Pelosi and Reid)

This being said,  no one in my family has been contacted by FEMA/National Guard/County Sheriff's office/ etc. to check on our well being.  We have 4 families that have been living in a house.   There are 5 children (ages 10 to 5) and 6 adults.  We have a wood burning stove for heat and we use it to cook on.  We had to buy a $1000.00 generator to provide electricity to run our well for water, our freeze/fridge, and to provide entertainment for our children.  We have not relied on anyone to provide for our families and I am glad that we have not relied on any outside help.  We live in the south end of Graves County and we are about 15 miles from the county seat of Mayfield. Our Gov., Steve Beashear, has been our end of the state a few times since the Ice Storm has ended and he has been praising the Pres for his help in sending FEMA and federal help to our area.  Beashear is a democrat and I am sure he is afraid to speak out against Obama but we need to have leaders that show real interest in their people.

We have been told the things would be better with FEMA and that FEMA would help and provide assistance to the people of this area.  The fact is FEMA will repay the State and Local Governments for their costs in the clean up and recovery, but that all of the money individual citizens have spent to take care of themselves and others will not be paid back or no assistance will be made available to them.  Generators, Propane, and Kerosene have all been made available to the people affected with power outages, but is has come as a price.  Water has been given out to people in need, if you can make it to the shelters and distribution centers.  The government has provided MRE's to the shelters and center, however all of the Wal-Mart/Grocery Stores in our area had to throw out all of their frozen/refrigerated food, due to power outages, spoiled or not.

It would be nice to see the President in our area showing support to American Citizens in a time of need.  He could make us a bunch of empty promises to help and assist us all, like he did during the campaign.  Well this is not going to happen.  So what I am trying to say is We are doing fine without the help and assistance that is being mentioned in the news and we will pray, comfort, and take care of each other on our own."