Poll: Louisiana GOPers Unsure If Katrina Response Was Obama’s Fault

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: TPM

A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.



Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-louisiana-gopers-unsure-if-katrina-response-was?ref=fpb

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Huh?

[Ian_rd]

1. How can it be Obama's fault? He was in Kenya.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. +1

[TRoN33]

10. LMFAO...

[tomm2thumbs]

22. you know there are 12 Obama clones doing his bidding, don't you?

only 1 was in Kenya, transmitting his Kenyan policies to the other 11 clones

Didn't I read that on NewsMax?

[dothemath]

37. Hold on there, sparky .........

Africa is the birthplace of all of so-called human animals that exist on the planet today - including you. So, Obama can't use that as an excuse.

( S A R C A S M)

[JustAnotherGen]

2. They are

Pardon my language - Fucking Idiots.

[valerief]

23. Agreed. nt

[kentauros]

30. And, unfortunately, they are also

Idiots that fuck.

[JustAnotherGen]

31. DUZY!

:spit:

[icymist]

36. Thus, the Idiocracy begins!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

Idiocracy is a 2006 American satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge and starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, and Terry Crews. The film tells the story of two ordinary people from the present who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years in the future in a dystopian society full of extremely stupid people. Advertising, commercialism, and cultural anti-intellectualism have run rampant and dysgenic pressure has resulted in a uniformly unthinking society devoid of intellectual curiosity, social responsibility, and coherent notions of justice and human rights.

[Hekate]

44. DUzy

[Historic NY]

4. Its just got to be the water!!!

[Ash_F]

53. BP oil and corexit will do that. /nt

[LuckyLib]

5. The stupid here is simply amazing.

[egold2604]

6. It is the result of all the Corexit in the water

[mtasselin]

7. people

The sad thing is that these people are allowed to breed.

[Stuart G]

11. Movie based upon the breeding of stupid people

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Yes, there is such a movie....Idiocracy...................

Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

__________________________________________________________________________________________

If you haven't seen it, it is around.. And it is a comedy, but it isn't so funny based on this thread...oh well..enjoy that movie

[valerief]

24. Love that documentary, er, movie. Ha! nt

[RoccoR5955]

8. Really, I want some of whatever

they are smoking, drinking, or otherwise ingesting.

If they can't figure out who was in the White House in 2005, they are either wasted, or just plain nuts!

[dothemath]

39. Simple answer .......

They are republicans.

[TRoN33]

9. Probably there is a reason why...

When W. Bush flew over New Orleans for " " security reasons " ", you guys must blame President Obama (because he is a half-black dude) for lax response nearly 8 years later...

[RevStPatrick]

12. To be fair...

Well, maybe not "fair," but to be realistic:

When you poll a bunch of no-information people, individuals who simply do not pay attention AT ALL to much of anything, you are bound to come up with poll results like this. We here at DU are high-information people, if not info-junkies, individuals who seek out info and search for the truth.

I think most people are simply trying to make it day to day, and high-information can be very confucing and disturbing. If a question like "Is Obama responsible for the Katrina response" you will get a certain number who will just say "sure" because they've got Obama on the brain, and really don't think AT ALL about the question. They are dumb, of course, but that's to be expected.

This is not to excuse it, just to understand it. I'm not going to get outraged about this, because there are too many things that we can still do something about that I would prefer to be outraged about...

[heaven05]

13. this is a joke

right? Uninformed, uneducated, backward, ignorant, STUPID americans. Sad.

[AsahinaKimi]

14. No Joke...they GET THEIR NEWS FROM

FOX.

[krispos42]

15. In a surprising twist...

...as many as 28% of Republicans have a clue.

[onehandle]

16. Obama kidnapped the Lindbergh Baby!

To be fair, probably only 25% of Louisiana Republicans think that.

Probably within the margin of error.

[olddad56]

47. To be fair, probably only 25% of Louisiana Republicans think. period, end of sentence.

if that many

[Journeyman]

17. "College men, from LSU. Went in dumb, come out dumb too" . . .

Randy Newman, "Rednecks"

"Don't know our ass from a hole in the ground". . .

[kentauros]

33. Which is odd,

because LSU has one of the best online GIS sites I've ever used. Someone intelligent had to set it up!

[olddad56]

48. they have out of state students and they have some students who are progressives.

doubtful the GIS system was built by the people who are unsure of who was president when Katrina happens.

[kentauros]

54. I doubt that, too.

However, some of the architects of their system may be republicans because the oil industry uses GIS heavily, especially geologists

[SCVDem]

18. We had Radio Free Europe

And Voice of America to inform the Iron Curtain countries.

In 2013 we can't get the truth to Americans?

The problem is that the media fail to call BULLSHIT immediately when they hear it!

I hear Big Ed and Lawrence O'Donnell do it but not many more and not insistently enough to make the liar admit the lie.

This is propaganda and needs to be corrected on the TV news, all the newspapers and all local La. internet sites.

[PADemD]

51. Maybe we should be writing comments to LA newspapers, too.

Not just laugh about it on DU.

[Zoeisright]

19. As dumb as dumb can be.

That's repukes for you.

[Rebellious Republican]

20. You talkin bout these GOP Swamp People, right?

[JHB]

21. Mitt wasn't an Etch-A-Sketch, Tea Party Republican brains are.

From Driftglass in 2010, on Strategic Forgettery:

There is absolutely nothing left sifting around inside their mushy, angry skulls except that sparkly aluminum sand that good people at Ohio Arts use to make the Etch-a-Sketch.

Shake-shake-shake...and Ronald Reagan never sold weapons to terrorists, funded an illegal war, raised taxes four times, or left behind the largest deficit in American history up until that time.

Shake-shake-shake...and Bush the Elder never hired Lee Atwater.

Shake-shake-shake...and what Southern Strategy?

Shake-shake-shake...and George W. Bush is the Greatest President Ever, you filthy, Liberal traitors!

Shake-shake-shake...and where did you ever get the idea that anyone in the Conservative Movement supported that "Progressive" George W. Bush?

Shake-shake-shake...George Bush who?

Shake-shake-shake...Sarah Palin never supported the bailout!

Shake-shake-shake...Deficits don't matter.

Shake-shake-shake...Deficits are worse than six Hitlers!

Shake-shake-shake...the Kenyan Usurper's deficits are destroying America.

Shake-shake-shake...why do you keep calling me a "Republican"? I'm a Conservative!

Shake-shake-shake...why do you keep calling me a "Conservative"? I'm an Independent!

Shake-shake-shake...why do you keep calling me a "Independent"? I'm a Independent/Conservo/Libertarian!

To win elections, crush the New Deal and sell the United States into perpetual corporate serfdom, it was Ronald Reagan and the rest of the Conservative Elites who spent years and years and literally billions of dollars to create the infinitely reprogrammable army of imbeciles from which many of those same Conservative Elites now flee in horror.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-name-is-ozymandias.html

[bluedigger]

25. Obama also made my milk go bad in my coffee this morning.

Friggin' Obama!

[kentauros]

34. Well, that's what you get for using

Kenyan coffee!

[bluedigger]

40. Embarrassed to say it was Folger's.

Using up my old camping supply.

[blackspade]

26. GOP-The party of teh stupid.

[donquijoterocket]

38. and Piyush

Jindal the Republican governor of that state tried to warn them about things like this. I guess the warning was not heard,or if heard,not heeded

[Rebellious Republican]

42. You forgot MORANS!

[caseymoz]

27. Sad proof that Deepwater Horizon

later caused brain damage.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. John Stuart Mill's observation about stupidity comes to mind:

"While it's not necessarily true that all conservatives are stupid
people, it is the case that most stupid people are conservative."
-- John Stuart Mill

[PD Turk]

29. You can't fix stupid. Nt

[Daniel537]

32. Wow.

Only 29% blame Obama. Gotta say, thought it would be higher than that, lol.

[gopiscrap]

35. Fucking ignarant assholes

this is half the problem in this nation, we live among a bunch of idiots with their heads up their ass!

[Rain Mcloud]

43. It could not have been Bushes fault

in their bizzarro universe:
1.Bush was celebrating John McCains birthday,i bet they swapped tongues again.
2.Bush was visiting a Guitar Factory,i can't remember which one.
3.Bush visited the Harley Davidson Factory.
4.Finally when his factory touring and tongue wrestling was done,he flew over in air force one.
5.He defended Scot Brown former president of the AQHA(American Quarter Horse Association based in Edmond Oklahoma)on the News feeds.

So see there he was helping after all and what did Obama do?
Nothing!
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[Hekate]

45. oooooooh, my head....

[olddad56]

46. He probably orchestrated 911 also.

[olddad56]

49. I'm still unsure who was the president in 2005, but I know it wasn't Obama...

and I doubt if it was really dubya.

[christx30]

52. I saw it all. I was there.

On August 15th, 20011, president Obama reached backward in time and held up federal response to the hurricane. Bush wanted to appoint someone good to head up the team. But Obama forced him to appoint a guy named after a dessert.
And as we all know, "Time travel related political interference is grounds for impeachment." -- George Washington, date of birth, 9/17/2245