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2023-08-14 Home Front: Politix
Biden and VP take heat for no Hawaii visit or comment
[Daily Mail] Joe Biden refused to comment on the rising death toll in Hawaii following the devastating fires as the president spent two hours on Sunday relaxing on the beach in Delaware.

The 80-year-old was seen reclining on a sun lounger on Rehoboth Beach, near his holiday home in the state. Earlier, he attended mass at St. Edmond's Catholic Church in the resort town.

As Biden left the beach, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg asked for his response to the wildfires that have killed 96 people.

'No comment,' the president replied.

Hawaii's governor and senators - all Democrats - have repeatedly thanked Biden for immediately approving an emergency declaration, which frees up federal rescue funds, and sending FEMA officials.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-14 06:16|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 No comment. Nothing on the schedule for Wuhan either.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-14 06:36||   2023-08-14 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, it does make sense for him to stay away. All it would do would be to take resources away from firefighting and recovery to guide and guard him.
For once, I am actually defending a Joe Biden decisionl
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-08-14 10:22||   2023-08-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree Rambler. I don't know why people demand the president comes for a state disaster. That isn't their fucking job. The FEMA appointee, that IS there job. I wouldn't go and tie up resources just so I could get my PR photo of me staring out a helicopter window at the mess below.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-08-14 10:30||   2023-08-14 10:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, Trump would have gotten a lot of praise for "staying out of the way."
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-14 10:57||   2023-08-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Bush got slammed for just flying over New Orleans after Katrine, rather than tying up valuable resources on the ground.
Posted by Glenmore 2023-08-14 12:06||   2023-08-14 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe Joe has a situation room in Delaware that allows him to keep tabs on developing situations. Perhaps, it has Legos. I notice that he doesn’t play golf at this point in his slope down into oblivion. Maybe he drilled Humpty Dumpty too hard or the or damaged the windmill on his last round and got asked not to return.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-14 12:24||   2023-08-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 ("No comment.") He's an asshole.
Posted by Jeremiah Jomosing7109 2023-08-14 14:24||   2023-08-14 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe Joe has a situation room in Delaware

His basement?
Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-14 14:46||   2023-08-14 14:46|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ no the one with the commode.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-14 16:08||   2023-08-14 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10 This is why I declined to move to Hawaii for a promotion. The islands only ever have 4 weeks emergency food rations as it's the most remote place on the planet. Oh, that and "long pig". I pray for those locals and curse those who caged them thus.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-08-14 18:43||   2023-08-14 18:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Poor Joe, red-faced object of hate,
Looks surprisingly orange of late,
Like old Branagh enthroned
On the bridge, but more stoned,
As he scuppers our great ship of state.

Troubles double feature last night. Commas back in stock at local Time Saver!
Posted by Sonny Snumble2360 2023-08-14 20:56||   2023-08-14 20:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Situation room in Delaware? Well, there were a lot of files in the garage locked with a key and all that.

Haven't heard much about that one lately, either.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-14 21:36||   2023-08-14 21:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Nobody normal wants Joe anywhere, least of all in Hawaii right now. But to just blow it off with”no comment” - while sunbaking on the beach- is astoundingly sociopathic.
I wonder if he even knows. What’s the point, it would just confuse him, somebody says “Hawaii” and he jokes about girls in grass skirts. Just whisper “no comment” in his ear if a microphone approaches.
Posted by Ululating Platypus  2023-08-14 22:16||   2023-08-14 22:16|| Front Page Top

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