Washington – President Barack Obama said Saturday that “there’s nothing more important than us getting this right” as he visited the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for an update on superstorm recovery efforts before beginning a final weekend of campaigning before Election Day.
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“Obviously we’ve now seen that after the initial search and rescue, the recovery process is difficult and it’s painful,” he said. “But I’m confident that we will continue to make progress as long as state and local and federal officials stay focused.”
The White House said several Cabinet secretaries were heading to Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
“What I told the governors and the mayors, what I’ve been saying to my team from the start of this event – that is we don’t have any patience for bureaucracy, we don’t have any patience for red tape and we want to make sure that we are figuring a way to get to yes as opposed to no when it comes to these problems,” Obama said.
He cited the need to restore power; pump out water, particularly from electric substations; ensure that people’s basic needs are addressed; remove debris; and getting federal resources in place to help transportation systems come back on line.
“There’s nothing more important than us getting this right and we’re going to spend as much time, effort and energy as necessary to make sure that all the people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut know that the entire country is behind them in this difficult recovery effort. And we are going put not just 100 percent but 120 percent behind making sure that they get the resources that they need to rebuild and recover,” Obama said.
Seeing the above pictures in Vos Iz Neias I don’t know how someone in their right mind can vote for another four disastrous years for Americans. WE NEED CHANGE AND VOTE PRESIDENT ROMNEY INTO OFFICE
NY NJ Connecticut not a word about Monroe I’m not voting for him
This president is COMPETANT.
Consistent unemployment, record national debt, deficits as far as the eye can see, reckless and wasteful stimulus spending and, more recently, the massacre in Benghazi in which members of the U.S. military were ordered to stand down rather than go to the aid of U.S. personnel under attack by terrorists…
One act of (appeared as you put it) leadership, a week before elections, and he suddenly is a leader..
You need to snap out of it.
Save America. Romney 2012.
P.S. regarding Katrina, the mess in New Orleans was every bit the Democratic then-mayor and governors fault as it was the Bush administrations.
He’s doing his job. He has good advice. And there’s a professional in charge of FEMA this time. You don’t have to like him or want to vote for him to acknowledge simple truths like this
“And we are going put not just 100 percent but 120 percent behind making sure that they get the resources that they need to rebuild and recover,” Obama said
Obama should learn math…
If he is putting most of his resources into campaigning how can he be putting 100% (or 120%) into “rebuild and recover”
Anyone can take or find a picture with a utility truck half inside a plane.