Obama cancels campaign events to monitor Hurricane Sandy

[Botany]

Source: L.A. Times

President Obama is canceling some campaign events in Virginia and Colorado so he can monitor Hurricane Sandy
during and after its expected landfall on the East Coast.

After a campaign event Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, Obama will return to the White House as states from the
mid-Atlantic to New England braced for what forecasters called a massive storm, according to the White House.
Obama plans to skip campaign events in northern Virginia on Monday and Colorado Springs on Tuesday.

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Stephanie Cutter, deputy manager of the Obama campaign, said Obama changed his schedule so he could focus
on preparations for the storm.

"He's giving every resource he can to state and local partners," Cutter said on ABC's "This Week."

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-campaign-hurricane-sandy-20121028,0,6145451.story

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President Barack Obama receives an update on the ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy during a conference call with FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, Dr. Rick Knabb, Director of the National Hurricane Center, and John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, in the Oval Office, Oct. 26, 2012. Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, and Richard Reed, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, are seated at right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)


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It is so good to have grown ups in charge again.


http://bokertov.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bc4a69e2017615e66867970c-800wi

I will always remember W's fly over of Katrina where he said something like "it looks bad from up
here betya it is worse down on the ground."

[madokie]

1. Good Man, our President

It shows in everything he does

[Botany]

3. If this storm is anywhere near as big as they say ....

.... you can expect the President to suspend his campaign for sometime and work on
helping all the people that were effected by the storm.

[madokie]

4. Yes he will

He really cares about the people. Down deep inside he likes us. I truly believe that

[Botany]

8. He is already going to FEMA HQ in DC later this afternoon

http://www.9news.com/news/article/296585/339/Obama-to-visit-FEMA-headquarters-for-storm-update-

You can be sure that the states in the way of the storm National Guard Units are on alert,
and the Red Cross along with State and Local Governments are ready to go.

I'll bet you that by the end of the day or tomorrow in the AM the President goes on TV
and speaks about the storm.


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"Down deep inside he likes us." Obama sees himself as one of us and that is his gift to all
of us.

[HERVEPA]

2. It's the right thing of course, but politically he had to do this anywhere.

And Romney will look like an ass if he criticizes Obama for anything while this is going on. However, very small chance many voters will actually notice him looking like an ass.

[Bjorn Against]

5. Romney has shown himself more than willing to look like an ass

I would be shocked if he doesn't try to make this Obama's Katrina. I suspect he will have at least one press conference while the storm is still raging to denounce Obama's handling of it.

[Firebirds01]

7. Romney and company will say

that "Obama is absent from the campaign trail because people are finally rejecting his lies" or some bullshit like that."

The President could sneeze and the republicans would accuse him of germ warfare. There are a vile cancer on the body politic of the united states.

[Firebirds01]

6. This is a perfect example of the right limits

what our president can. This is how the constrain our actions with ever saying a word.


We know that there is large bureaucracy designed to specifically handle situations like this. We know that Air Force One is a mobile command station for the President. Therefore, he could be in full awareness and full control of the situation WITHOUT canceling an event.


However if he did cancel everything the right would scream that Obama is shirking his duties and your safety to campaign. This right wing idiots would go on the M$M and spout their shit without once being challenge. The anchor would just accept the talking point as fact and move on...


The left can effectively govern because the right wing traitors own the media and present any conspiracy theory as indisputable fact.

[Ian David]

9. WHAT? That is NOT how you do a heckuva job...

Barack Obama isn't the only one who can fill a stadium. Republicans can fill a stadium, too!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6466448

[Jester Messiah]

10. Might as well.

I think the campaigns have said everything there is to say at this point. The President has other responsibilities, and it's good for him to show that he is still on the job.

[santamargarita]

11. Fox News says he's out buying shoes.

[okoko]

12. good idea

i like that decision

[Botany]

13. Welcome to DU