Fearless Leader “Takes Charge” At Hurricane Command Center…
More like a pathetic photo-op.
(AFP) — US President Barack Obama on Saturday personally led his government’s response to Hurricane Irene, marshalling top officials and visiting a disaster command center as the storm roared ashore.
Obama greeted officials at the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) set up at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, and then held a video conference with federal and state officials.
“You guys are doing a great job obviously,” Obama told a group in the command center. “This is obviously going to be a touch and go.”
Officials said the NRCC brings together multiple government agencies and departments to coordinate disaster response with federal, state and local groups around the clock.
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i’m so sick of seeing this morons face show up every single day. oh what a coincidence that a photographer was close by to catch this “leadership” moment.
It must have been along his route to the golf course.
That pic reminds me of Dukakis in the tank- an inept, self important fool trying desperately to look competent.
JWM
and tell me why was it necessary for the name cards at the table?
What hurricane? Is there anything Obama touches that doesn’t fail?
Barack Obama President of the United States. Ok, we get it. You won.
Leadership? What a bubble these people live in. Remember the umbrella moment? November 2012 can’t come soon enough. Now if he doesn’t do a “7 Days In May” movie, him being the character Gen Scott, then we have a chance.
It is the commander in chief part that scares the hair off my head kind. Why doesn’t he just stop the storm, being smarter than God and all that? Small in more ways than one. Is Reggie under the desk?
The name cards are there to make it look like he was in charge the whole time!
This shows that Obama has a complete lack of confidence in members of his team. One or more of his advisors thought this would be a great photo-op. WRONG! It makes him look like a desperate micromanaging nincompoop hoping for a quick fix to the dismal PR nightmare that has resulted from all of his disastrous agendas, golfing and vacations. I will always respect the office of the US President. But petty stunts like this ensure that I will never respect Obama.
When the hurricane subsides, he’ll take credit.
Time to evacuate.
He will steer the ferocious, historic, man eating hurricane AWAY from the innocent little people with the power of his mind! And save the entire eastern seaboard from global warming induced apocalypse. Be gone ye tempest of fury! Dear Leader is IN CHARGE people- have faith!
Odumbo is there because….it’s night time… and the golf course is closed?
Why is Janet Napolitano there? Doesn`t she have anything better to do?
It’s silly, but WHY is it every time that I ever see Napolitano I think of an ultrasound in her hair. I mean a quick glance at the variations of color give thoughts of an ultrasound. I dunno….it’s just how it is.
Jimmy Carter keeping tabs on the white house tennis court thinks this is micromanaging.
this should work out lil better N.O. and nagen.s chocolate city, cuz these people in the east know how to get out of rain
@Brain….it’s raining so it would be to the bowling alley.
@Hickhay….OMG! That is just too funny. You are absolutely right, it does look like an ultrasound. LMAO!!!
Because 0 is so qualified, for what I don’t know.
This reminds my when the Demagogues stuffed something in Al Gore’s jeans to give him the appearance of manhood. Why do these Demagogue’s have to fake it all the time?
WTF is a hurricane command center? Does the Chicago Jesus think he can ‘command’ it to go away? Anyway Irene is looking like a complete bust which coordinates with everything Obama has done.
o barf
I’m so reassured..
Obama Shakes Hands Fresh Prince Style [VIDEO]
http://www.dump.com/2011/08/23/obama-shakes-hands-fresh-prince-style-video/
Talk about a crock. I’ll rely on myself. We’re supposed to believe this bum, with no college transcripts, and used cocaine is going to lead us to safety. Good grief, I can’t take this anymore. They’re such an embarrassment. It’s like watching a bad episode of the Three Stooges.
“More like a pathetic photo-op.”
Obama is in the photo. No shit it’s pathetic.
Looks like the Miserable-Failure-in-Chief is saying, “Uhhh, whatta we do now?”
He’s such a goober.
I am totally shocked that they couldnt find a picture of a hurricane to put behind him for the “halo” effect.
What the hell does he think he can do there?! He can’t find his ass with both hands!!!
Jeez Buzzard. Now I have to clean whiskey out of keyboard.
e. scott says:
August 27, 2011 at 9:22 pm
What the hell does he think he can do there?! He can’t find his ass with both hands!!!
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That’s why he has an Ass Czar.
That’s why he has an Ass Czar.
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I thought Van Jones resigned.
Why, oh why didn’t he stop that hurricane?
There is no one there that looks the least bit excited, or even a wee bit thrilled that Obama is there.
And her hair does look like an ultrasound!
Thank God I am in Florida. Rick Scott is a good governor.
The only reason he showed up was cameras, nobody is dumb enough to call him a leader except for his paid staff.
His presence was as justified there as at a BMW engineers conference.
He has no idea either way.
awe yes the lame stream media polishing the brown turd for their useful idiots. problem is they can polish all the want but obama is still dog shit of the lowest muzzie commie rat bastard caliber.
Maybe he will tell me what to do with all these damn batteries I bought yesterday for my hurricane preparedness.
He looks like a second rate celebrity taking phone donations for the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
“You guys are doing a great job obviously,” Obama told a group in the command center. “This is obviously going to be a touch and go.”
What a waste of air time! It would be more significant if he picked his nose. A divine miracle if he told the truth “I have no clue what they do here”.
So, did FEMA make the table sign or does Obama carry one in his pocket?
Lord save us from this man and his communists!
He killed OBL, now he’s takin’ on that bitch Irene.
e. scott.. he has other guys do that for him..
‘A shocking tale of Barack Obama’s behavior following a high profile Chicago gathering of Democratic Party elites shortly before Obama won election to the Illinois State Senate.
…
And then the door opened behind me and I turned around and saw a young tall thin black man looking at me. I recognized the face but wasn’t sure of the name right away, but was pretty sure he was someone important. I told him I was just using the bathroom but knew I must have looked very embarrassed. He just stared at me for what seemed like forever. There was just enough light in that hall that I could see that his eyes were not really “right”. I thought he was probably drunk. Then his eyes seemed to suddenly clear up and become a lot more focused and he looked down at me and he gave a big smile. He asked me if I was ok. I looked down to his belt which was undone and I could see that his dress shirt was not tucked into his pants. When I looked back up at his face the smile was long gone. He looked really angry at me now. He asked me again if I was ok but he said it in a way that really spooked me. There was something in his voice that scared me. Really bad. And it was at that exact moment I finally recognized his face as the author and political candidate Barack Obama. I was just about to turn and walk as fast as I could out of the hallway when the door opened wider and another black man’s face poked out. He said, “What the F is going on B?” The guy I now recognized as Obama stepped all the way out of the hall and closed the door behind him, leaving the other man inside the conference room. He asked me again if I was all right. Now he was standing right over me. He smiled again and I noticed one of his front teeth seemed to have a chip in it, or it was a lot shorter than the other one. He must have had work done because the pictures of him today don’t show that. I don’t know why I noticed that so much or why it has stuck with me but it has. And his breath smelled really bad. It made me want to gag it was so bad. I told him I was fine and did a kind of half walk half run down the hall and back into the main lobby. I looked back right before I turned the corner and could make out Barack Obama still standing in the darkness of the hallway looking back at me. It was very very creepy.’
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/the-ulsterman-report-sex-and-murder-in-the-land-of-obama/
That’s why he has an Ass Czar.
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I thought Van Jones resigned.
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- as did Kal Penn.
can’t find his ass with a squad of ass finders
he said “Im not a leader but, I play one on TV”
I bet they wish he would go away and quit interfering with what needs to be done.
0BAMA needs a “WIN” at any cost………
“Obama takes charge at hurricane command center”
zer0 thinks that the US citizens are “FOOLS”……..
ARE WE TO BELIEVE THAT zer0 HAS SAVED US SINGLE HANDEDLY AGAIN LIKE HE DID IN THE OSAMA BIN LADEN RAID?
but……..
WE KNOW WHO THE REAL FOOL IS.
Betcha that photo shows up in the Seal Team 6 movie!
Take care all
No reason for him to be there except to whore for the camera.
“Uhhhh….800..where’s Bob Barker?”
that is what I see when I look at that picture.
whore
A good leader would let the experts do their job without constant supervision. Then again, he’s not a good leader.
Caption to the picture. ” … and who the hell is Craig Fugate sitting next to me? I think he or Janet farted.”
There are a total of five people in the photo above. Can you identify the two gay people in the photo?
There are name placards on the table so President Stupid will know where to sit.
Wonder if “Butch” Neapolitano is wearing her strap on underneath her mumuu?
CLOWN
OK…it’s a quick, mandatory assemblage to prop the turkey up,
and sell him again, like they did before, as a “President who
really cares”. This strutting, preening, cock-gobbler’s feathers
are so damp with dew that can’t fly…and THAT is what makes
him vulnerable. Photo-ops are NOT the ammo, anymore,
that the Left was banking on.
Agnostics even feel the need to say prayers!
LMAO! asshat in chief
“Question to ….our President”…as you SIT there….with all the
props…to show you as the “NON-Katrina President”….
just what the hell are you DOING? ….and “Where the hell
will you be flown to …so you can golf tomorrow? Non-Bots
want to know! Taxpayers need some info! And when you
drag Mooch back…..give us the grand total of her expen-
ditures. We’ll pay ‘em back….we just want a fair accounting.
Utterly, absolutely, shamelessly pathetic display of political theater, photo-op extraordinaire.
@Junius
not only is she wearing her strapon but she is wearing it backwards
I predict a lavender sombrero, a “black-gang tattoo..next
to the MS13″ inko on his neck, and a Cardigan sweater
with leather elbow-patches in the “GO-BAM” motif for
re-election. Word will get out that “he gave up cigarettes,
and now smokes a pipe”. We’ll all be wondering what’s
in it….and Politico will NEVER help us.
The Messiah will be lauded for his TV appearances by the
usual suspects in the LSM…..but, one again, he strikes
me as a deer in the headlights….and country-folk all
over America know what I mean.
This photo has me re-thinking Bin Laden. Smoke and mirrors.
illegal alien,muzzie at that-get out you pathetic POS-I agree with all of the above.
He inspires me to vomit every time I see that ugly puss of his.
You mean for once he isnt playing golf? was the golf coarse flooded or did the seagulls throw him out?
Zelig
Inserting himself again. Bolstering his “cult of personality”.
He needs to wear the dunce hat of the guy at the tea party rally!
He’s doing it wrong.
The other people in the room are probably thinking: I wish these media whores would get the hell out of here so I can do my job!
What a transparent jackass…I’ll bet he was a BIG help, O and his chubby little man-girl, Janet from another Planet…These goofs think they’re fooling everyone with their contrived dumb-shit photo-ops…And they wonder why his approval rating is in the thirties….
What Texray said
We here in the east know how to board up a window and stay out of the weather. We don’t need the limp wrist assclown in chief to stop by for a photo op to tell us.
We aren’t like “your people” down in New Orleans. We won’t stand around clueless waiting for the gubment to do everything for us. Are you getting it yet shit for brains? That a nanny state breeds people that are too lazy and stupid too help themselves.
Our president is repulsive. He really is.
Aslan’s Girl, that’s a good one, Someone with photoshop, get on that!
Dumbo is so dumb he needs a place card to remember what name he uses….the name he used to usurp the office he defiles!
So, BO going to lift his hands toward the storm and make it go away….right?
Take another damn vacation Obama, go bleach your frickin’ skin…..whatever, just go away!”
FEMA has the most fortified building.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
While you’re at it S.T.F.U. and just get out of their way you desperate fuckin’ idiot. It’s going to take more than this over-sized thunderstorm to save you in 2012. Only 438 days to go!
BUH-BYE!!!
The #1 assclown figured he’d appear more informed and in charge if he sat between the dozing FEMA director Fugate and the clueless and butt ugly Janet Napolitano, who brought her border fencing report because she thought the photo op was about homeland security.
Where were you guys when that inept cretin George W was taking 78 vacation days vs Obama’s 27? And wasn’t Bush having a Birthday Cake photo op with John McCain the day the levees broke? Idiots.
@Bilbo
It doesn’t matter. Defend him all you want, he’s toast anyway.
“The share of liberals who say “strong leader” describes Obama “very well” has fallen from 53 percent to 29 percent in the aftermath of the debt-ceiling debate.”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_OBAMA?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=
Why do we have FEMA?
Let the states fend for themselves.
@Bilbo:
“D” for lame effort at trolling. Come back when you grow some wit.
JWM
is it just me. or does he keep looking smaller and smaller in all the photos? I mean physical wise. All his clothes look 2 sizes two big, or like a kid playing adult dress up. Than again that pretty close to the real truth of the mattter!
uzi4you.. no, its not just you..
‘So that’s what you first see when you enter the room – the upstairs office of President Obama. Next you’re gonna notice how small the guy looks. Really thin. He pads his suits up you know. The top end. The shoulders. It became an actual issue during the 2008 campaign – some of his handlers were saying it made his neck look too small. Fact is, it made his neck look just like it is – small. The guy is scrawny. All knees and elbows sitting in that chair. Sometimes he gets up when you come in, sometimes he remains seated and will just turn the volume on the TV down with the remote and say, “What you got?” That foot is bouncing up and down while you give him the briefing, but he rarely looks over at you – always looking at whatever is on the television. If it’s Jarrett in the room, or the personal assistant, one of them is there to keep the time. Your time. Don’t go over that fifteen minutes. And even if the president doesn’t look like he hears a word you’re saying, they are listening to everything. Every goddamn syllable coming out of your mouth, and if something is said they don’t like, they jot down notes. Been told it’s to use for the end of day summary they give the president – their own version of what is important and what can be ignored…and who might need to be pushed down, or pushed out…or whatever. So you’re looking at the president, this skinny guy, who’s ignoring you, who’s dressed like some kind of fucking frat boy wannabe, with somebody else taking notes on what you’re saying, and then you get up and walk out. The president might acknowledge you on some days, give a little nod, maybe even a thank you, but most often he just continues to look at the TV, bounce that foot on the chair, his skin looking off-color, pale, the eyes out of focus, the hair a helleva lot more gray than is shown in public, the wrinkles around the mouth far deeper…and the hands. His fucking hands are so…they are just these thin little stick digits. They are like these long-fingered woman’s hands. And his wrists, you could wrap your own fingers all the way around those wrists – again, so much like a woman’s hands. Almost freakish. Certainly not the strong alpha-male type image that America was given during the 2008 campaign.’
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/white-house-insider-the-obama-plan-part-three-2/
@Bilbo says
yeah SURE!! I know you are! but what am I?!
@jwm, common man, throw him a bone, just a FEW bashes at Bush and he will happily slink away
there are name tags on the table because plouffe (Fluff Fay) or another of his handlers set up a room for the photo op with the cameras all ready to snap and then when obongo showed up! (we all know how PROMPT he is)
they could just tell everyone to file in for the photo and then he IS OUTTA THERE!
the FEMA guys look like they want this over so they can go back to work, on the WINDAPOLSE, the hurricane of the century!
actually, they probably are drinking coffee to stay awake, they have NOTHING TO DO until a state requests their help
I suppose when you hate some one no matter what they do will be met with criticism. I have to say that so far the government action during Irene has been good. Communication was excellent. Local governments were coordinated. Generally people got information and areas were effectively evacuated where needed. The Feds were really light handed and the local and states owned the show.
@muffler
Well! we have an ADULT in the room,
You made a LOT of factual statements. What are your sources? and WHY are you giving obongo a pass on his manufactured photo op when FEMA had no role?
Things went ‘well’ because THE FREAKING ‘TROPICAL STORM’ is a rain storm, not a CAT 3 or 4.
Think THAT might have made a Diff?
Better than BUSH! right @ muffler?
The Bamster nailed it–because he doesn’t know the difference between “touch and go”–as in a dicey situation, and “a touch and go” as in a practice landing.
In a touch and go, the pilot pulls up and takes off again as soon as his wheels touch the ground. The wheels touch the ground for less than a second.
The Bamster obviously made “a touch and go”. As soon as his ass was in that seat and the photographers got their pictures, he was outa there!
The USURPER takes charge, what a joke. The commie doesn’t even know what weather is.
commieobamie.. sure he does.. he knows Weather Underground..
nothing to worry about now. obama appointed ninja storm hurricane commend megazord to the post of hurricane czar.
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2011/08/obama-takes-charge-at-fema-appoints.html
@Muffler
I believe what that demonstrates is that the state and local authorities were well prepared and doing a good job.
The Federal Government had no role to play. Except for photo-ops.
Yeah…but they didnt say is that they moved the FEMA trailer TO the Vineyards so as not to interrupt his golf game….this nutsack couldnt win a wipe your own arse contest!
(try to put a slight Scottish accent on that when you read it…youll get an idea of how I sound in life!) Born here to Scots and Irsih, in Cleveland…cant seem to lose it, though….