McCain & Palin Rush To Gulf Coast To...Do Something

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by georgia10
Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 09:26:44 PM PDT

It wasn't enough that the xxpresidentxx Republican nominee jumped headfirst into the Russia/Georgia crisis, going so far as to dispatch his xxSecretary of Statexx Senators Lieberman and Graham to Georgia on his behalf.

No, now, as Hurricane Gustav roars towards the U.S., the Republican xxpresidentxx nominee and his newly minted xxVice-Presidentxx running mate are rushing down to Gulf Coast to...well, do something:

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are traveling to Mississippi on Sunday to check on people getting prepared for Hurricane Gustav. <...>

Aides say McCain and his wife Cindy will join Palin in traveling to Jackson, Miss., Sunday at the invitation of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour because of concerns about people threatened by the storm <...>

The McCains and Palin will receive a briefing at the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency — a permanent operations center monitoring hurricane response

Given that, well, the real President isn't heading down there, and since I suspect the Governor of Alaska and the Senator from Arizona probably don't have a lot by way of hurricane disaster relief to offer, one would think that this trip were nothing more than a photo opportunity aimed at demonstrating that the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska can at least exude the aura of a federally elected official, while proving that McCain can understand how scared someone can be about losing their one and only home...if he tries really, really hard.

But really, McCain has already told us what he would do when another natural disaster hit the U.S. He wouldn't laugh on the tarmac holding a giant birthday cake. No, nature has given McCain a mulligan, and he's going to take advantage of it, dammit. McCain and Palin will rush bottled hot water to dehydrated babies, because that's what presidents and vice-presidents do in times like these. Now smile for the cameras.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/31/02644/5189/885/580841

:rofl: :rofl:

[bridgit]

1. Uh huh, to glad hand jack off the oil execs they really work for...

;) :thumbsup:

[Triana]

2. What are they gonna do, drill for oil and kill some animals?

Maybe McShame can move those people into his homes for a while. He's got enough of them to house a small city, at least.

Pfft!

Useless photo-op. The LAST thing those poor people need down there is a blazing idiot and his cheerleader ooogling and bloviating in the midst of a disaster.

[Heather MC]

3. What is he gonna do flap his arm really fast while she blows at the storm??????

If NOLA meant so damn much WHY WEREN'T YOU THERE WHEN THEY NEEDED YOU
Morons.
Great now the people sent down there to save lives are going to have to drag their dumbasses off a raft

[americanstranger]

4. I hope Palin goes into some weird trance and tries to divert the storm.

That would rock.

Somebody explain to me how they're going to go down there and avoid looking like a pack of vultures waiting for something to die so they can consume it for PR points.

- as

[zulchzulu]

5. Thanks for fucking getting in the way, you pandering asshats

Is John going to try to lift up a sand bag with his gimp arm? Hopefully they both go hunting with Dick.

[truthisfreedom]

6. SO he races to NOLA to do what? Clog the freeways with his motorcades, waste people's time who are

desperately trying to do something helpful, and use the whole shebang as a photo-op for his insane sitcom campaign?

Does he think that the rules are changing just for him, and that his actions won't be obvious when Obama's people draw attention to them?