Yahoo News - "Ex-FEMA director Michael Brown criticizes Obama for reacting too quickly to storm"

[TomCADem]

I guess Republicans needed someone to criticize President Obama's handling of Hurricane Sandy:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/ex-fema-director-michael-brown-criticizes-obama-reacting-202803013.html

Brown said the president may have had a more positive effect had he waited until Sunday afternoon to address the storm instead of holding a press conference that morning.

Brown's insinuation that Obama responded too early is a gutsy move considering his role in the 2005 disaster. Brown, who was famously called "Brownie" by President George W. Bush, was seen as a symbol of government failure to protect and evacuate people from the path of Katrina.

In emails he wrote that later became public, Brown came off as inexperienced and uncaring. On the morning of the hurricane, Brown wrote, "Can I quit now? Can I come home?" to Cindy Taylor, FEMA's deputy director of public affairs. Later, in a separate email, he wrote, "I'm trapped now, please rescue me."

Brown resigned from his FEMA position a short time later. He now co-hosts a program on Denver talk radio.

[cliffordu]

1. Wasn't he that horse show genius that Bush put in place??

Wonder if he knows the Rmoneys??

[ecstatic]

2. Wait, that's not from The Onion???? nt

[Union Scribe]

11. I know, we are living in mad times.

Guys like Rmoney and Brownie are running around saying shit that...can't possibly be real, can it?

[woodsprite]

3. 'Inexperienced and uncaring' kinda sums up Mitt Romney as well. n/t

[spanone]

4. fuck you, brownie

your 15 minutes expired yrs ago

[Aviation Pro]

5. Are you sure this isn't from The Onion?

Are you fucking kidding, Brownsplat?

[font size="24" color="red"]ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING, BROWNSPLAT
?[/font]

If anyone should go fuck themselves in the most twisted anatomical position they can conjure, it should be this fucking dribble of phlegm.

Fuck you, shit paper.

[niyad]

6. why would anybody give a horse's rear end what this incompetent jerk has to say about ANYTHING,

much less how a president handles a disaster.

you did a "heckuvajob" brownie, if, by that, we mean you were a totally incompetent hack, so do us a favour and SHUT UP.

How in the WORLD can one "respond too early to a disaster"???????

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. That has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard

but it just goes to show you that the right-wing will criticize ANYTHING President Obama does..........somehow. You can set your clock by it.

[0rganism]

7. from some people, criticism is actually a compliment

Still,

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. It never ceases to amaze me

no matter how badly people like Brown screw up, they have an unwavering knack for landing on their feet time after time again. They always seem to have a good gig waiting for them after they resign/are fired. There's always some right-wing think tank opening their doors to them, or there's some hate radio station that can't wait to give them a megaphone to spew their venom. Failing that, there's always some book publisher that's ready to offer them a chance to write their "memoirs" about their time in office when they were screwing up.

Then you have the average person who shows up at their jobs every day get pink slipped, loses their house, can't put food on their table, has to declare bankruptcy and ends up at a homeless shelter (where people like Paul Ryan show up for shameless photo ops pretending to wash dishes ) through no fault of their own.



How the hell does this stuff happen? How do the Cheneys, the Rumsfelds, the Brownies, et. al keep getting all of this free publicity when they should be at home cowering under the beds and praying that none of them ever get hauled off to Gitmo or the Hague for their incompetence/war crimes? Can somebody please explain this to me?

[begin_within]

12. Yahoo is strange...

On the one hand, their "news" department seems to have a right-wing slant, and the majority of the commenters on news stories are right-wingers. Whenever I've posted a comment I always get more thumbs down than thumbs up. And yet, the commenters are perpetually complaining that Yahoo has a "liberal bias." So they're damned either way. Additionally, the writers for Yahoo seem like people who flunked Journalism and are just sitting in Starbucks locations typing in stories and sending them to Yahoo in hopes that Yahoo will buy one. There are spelling and grammatical errors every day, poorly researched, written and edited articles (it seems like there is actually no editor) and many times opinion pieces masquerade as straightforward news stories. And it seems to have all gotten even worse under the new CEO of Yahoo, I think her name is Marissa Mayer, who was hired at a multimillion salary to "turn Yahoo around." But nothing has improved there. As fast as the free publicity to the Cheneys/Rumsfeld/Browns of the world, Yahoo will pick up on anything anyone says and try to make a news story out of it.

[niyad]

14. this was actually an article in denver westword. brown actually has airtime in denver, and runs,

are you ready for this???? a "disaster preparedness" consulting firm.

I WISH this were from the Onion, but it isn't.

[siligut]

15. They belong to the Sell-outs Club

They are useful to people with money, power and an agenda.

[reformist2]

9. 6,400+ responses already, overwhelmingly hostile toward Brown and Repugs in general.

[niyad]

13. the comments after the full article in westword are worth going over to read.

[Gormy Cuss]

16. Heckuva idiotic comment, Brownie.

Like Brown has a clue about how to react to a natural disaster.

[former-republican]

17. Key word is EX-

[dooner]

18. Next they'll be blaming Obama

for causing the disaster.