Gustav - Obama Tapping Donors To Help and Urging Residents To Evacuate

[Median Democrat]

Here is Obama actually taking action, rather than flying in and disrupting emergency preparation the way McCain did with the Mississippi flooding:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_obama

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Obama said he first would ask officials in the affected areas what is most needed, which may not be known for a few days.

"We don't want to solicit a bunch of canned goods that can't get there, or, you know, bottles of water where they already have water," he said.

Obama said he might visit storm-damaged areas once "things have settled down."

"The thing that I am always concerned about in the middle of a storm is whether we are drawing resources away from folks on the ground," he said, referring to the security demands his traveling entourage makes on local police and other officials.

Obama said he saw no problem with Republican rival John McCain's trip Sunday to Mississippi ahead of the storm's landfall. "I'm assuming that where he went, that wasn't an issue," Obama said.

Obama later conducted phone interviews with several Gulf Coast radio and TV stations, urging listeners to follow local officials' instructions about evacuations, his campaign said.

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[stillcool]

1. Thank you President Obama..

if people listen to anyone, they will listen to you.