THE PRESIDENT OF A CRYING SHAME

January 14, 2010, 3:30 PM

      

Obama Enlists Former Presidents to Help

          

http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2010/01/14/obama-enlists-former-presidents-for-aid-effort/

          

Comments (1)

      

By Associated Press

  

President Barack Obama has reached out to former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to help with U.S. relief efforts in Haiti.

  

Enlisting ex-presidents’ help in responding to a natural disaster is just what Bush did in 2004 after a tsunami ripped across Asia. Back then, it was Clinton and President George H.W. Bush who assisted in relief efforts.

  

Obama thought Bush’s decision to mobilize the former presidents was a good one, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday. Obama called George W. Bush and Clinton on Wednesday to discuss their involvement; details will be announced in the coming days.

   

Gibbs said the Obama administration’s criticism of Bush’s actions during the response to Hurricane Katrina were irrelevant.

  

“I think if you asked George Bush whether the government acted up to its ability in responding to Katrina, I think the answer to that would be ‘no,’” Gibbs said. “The actions that were taken to deal with the humanitarian crisis from the tsunami, on the other hand, I think worked quite well.”

    

10:47 am January 15, 2010

Jerzy Chojnowski wrote :Jan. 15, 2010

  

Wir, die Tsunami-Überlebenden, kommentieren: Ein Schlag ins Gesicht der Tsunami-Opfer und der Opfer von Katrina.

  

We, the tsunami survivers, wish to comment: A slap in the face of the tsunami victims and the victims of Katrina.

After all, wasn’t it George W. Bush himself who refused to protect and to help (responsibility to protect) at the time of the tsunami? And he and all the services at his command weren’t any better when they should have come to the rescue in New Ortleans. And wasn’t it he and his cronies who later covered up the scandal? Obama’s choice of the younger Bush as his envoy to Haiti is an insult to all those who perished and suffered on the beaches of the Indian Ocean and in New Orleans.

 

Jerzy Chojnowski

Chairman-GTVRG e.V.

http://www.gtvrg.de


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