Obama...Don't make this your Katrina

[HipChick]

I hate to even say that...but WTF am I seeing on my TV...a police force escalating an already bad situation totally unchecked?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Then don't.

It makes no sense at all.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Has President Obama said anything about the situation?

Has he done anything?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. What is he supposed to do?

Seems to me the responsibility is the Governor's at this point, and nobody's heard from him.

[ZombieHorde]

9. He can address the American people

and explain what is happening and what is being done about the situation. He can tell us if he has been in contact with the Governor, and offer details about that conversation. If he has not been in contact with the Governor, he can explain why that it. That is the least he can do.

He could also send people to protect the people being terrorized.

You know, his job. He could do his job.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Maybe he will, but it's almost midnight EDT - not a good time to make public statements.

I hope he will say something tomorrow. However, the ball is in the Governor's court and I would expect him to get off his butt right now and do something.

[ZombieHorde]

12. That would be nice.

I wonder if the Governor is shitting his pants right now. He may be in over his head.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. I don't know anything about this Governor, but

it wouldn't surprise me if he felt caught between the proverbial rock and hard place - he's a Dem in a state whose legislature is controlled by GOPers and teabaggers and can't figure out whether it would be more damaging politically to activate the state National Guard to control the cops (and piss off the 'baggers), or do nothing and let the cops keep rioting - and piss off everybody else. I hope the guy grows a spine overnight.

[ZombieHorde]

14. The situation is frustrating.

I guess we'll see what happens tomorrow.

[VanGoghRocks]

32. That is pretty astute analysis. But to quote another Missourian, made

of sterner stuff, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." ~Harry S. Truman

[edgineered]

4. The spin

is already starting, the direction right now appears to be to calm everyone down by prolonging the arrest of what they will play off as one rogue cop. I don't think they'll be able to pull it off that easy though. Any idea?

[HipChick]

6. I don't think it's one rogue cop...

It's the mindset of PD there...and if it can happen there, can happen anywhere...

[edgineered]

10. In some deeper thoughts today

reflecting on the sad state of war that much of the world is in, basically the ethnic cleansing tolls. Think of how americans in general accept it. It seems that we have a much larger problem than a single cop, a single city, state, etc.

[malaise]

5. Where is the Democrati Governor?

Good effin' grief!

[kath]

18. Yeah, really. And where were his "comfortable shoes" when all the labor crap was going on w/Walker i

In WI??

[liberal N proud]

8. Doesn't the action need to come from the Attorney General?

And has anyone made an official complaint?

http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/42usc2000b.php

So what can the President do?

[sheshe2]

15. Aaaah yes, why am I not surprised.

Obama...Don't make this your Katrina

WTF! I didn't see the news today. Did Obama fly over Ferguson today and look blankly out of the window at the devastation below and then fly off to a birthday party? What is it about DU and the Obama hate.

Holder is already on the job. If you think for one moment that this President is not on top of this, then you haven't been paying attention. Or maybe you just don't want to.

http://www.ebony.com/black-listed/news-views/eric-holder-tells-justice-department-to-monitor-ferguson-981#axzz3AKkFPLLx

"Obama's Katrina"...dear gawd, I need to Last time I heard that was from the GOP.

Which of these 19 things was the MOST Obama’s Katrina’s moment? Conservatives can’t seem to decide.

This week, many conservatives have labeled the debate over undocumented immigrants, "Obama's Katrina." It is not the first time a political issue has been labeled Obama's Katrina. Let's take a step back through history...

snip

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/07/11/which-of-these-tk-things-was-the-most-obamas-katrinas-moment/

[Stellar]

20. Hear, hear!!!

[sheshe2]

22. Thank you Stellar.

I am so fricking pissed right now.

[Stellar]

23. I know the feeling!

[Cha]

34. Excellent, she.. Fucking Republicon talking point.. certainly those on DU can come

up with a better talking point than that?! Hyperbolic much?!

"Holder is already on the job. If you think for one moment that this President is not on top of this, then you haven't been paying attention. Or maybe you just don't want to."

They never learn, she.. just because President Obama went to a birthday party doesn't mean he isn't multi-tasking. It means he is.

[mythology]

16. This isn't Katrina, or even close

In a worst case scenario this is a murder. Katrina was intentional neglect that killed hundreds and crippled a region.

The U.S. Attorney's office has already opened an investigation into the situation. At this point, the best thing to do is to let the U.S. Attorney investigate, taking it out of the hands of the local police and for people to not do things like throw rocks at the police because that's really just not going to help. Because it's clearly not just the police escalating this situation. It's both the police and whatever idiots are throwing rocks at them. Sort of like you shouldn't pick fights with people who buy ink in barrels, you shouldn't pick them with people who buy bullets in bulk.

Obama has already spoken out about this, and the FBI along with the Justice Department are in Ferguson. That's more than Bush did for Katrina.

[Cha]

35. Well said, mythology.. thank you.

[SidDithers]

17. Oh FFS...

Bush's Katrina was a once in a generation, maybe a once in a lifetime, display of incompetence and mismanagement from a Chief Executive.

Wondering if every scandal, or situation, is going be be Obama's Katrina, is ridiculous, and minimizes the colossal fuck-up that Bush's Katrina actually was.

Sid

[sheshe2]

24. Wow!

Color me amazed, Sid. I am shocked that people would immediately jump all over Obama on this. NOT! Holder has already opened an investigation on the Michael Brown shooting. Anyone that has been paying attention over the past five years, knows that Obama is on this.

HFS!

Obama's Katrina is RW crap! See it here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025382202#post15

[Cha]

36. It's a hyperbolic republicon faux "news" talking point.. President Obama and his Justice Dept are

on this and there are Dems hyperventilating about "Obama's Katrina?!"..

[Stellar]

19. So where are the elected officials of that state?

Don't you think it's a good idea to go after them first, instead of using the Republicans thing, to making this an Obama catastrophe?

I haven't seen not one elected official from that state today.

[4b5f940728b232b034e4]

25. Considering I haven't seen this on the news...

not even a single mention of it, this can't be bad for him. The news has buried it 100%. This isn't like Katrina at all where the fact that there was a hurricane wasn't censored.

[bluestateguy]

26. I thought the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was his "Katrina"

I lost track.

[villager]

28. Nah, there was plenty of help covering up the breadth, and the effects, of that

Since they were long-term enough and diffuse enough...

[kcdoug1]

27. this is NOT Obama's problem...

WHERE'S the DAMN GOVERNOR!

[villager]

29. Well, it's America's problem

In theory, the President might want to take that into consideration

[Historic NY]

30. The Democrat that is Governor needs to get his ass down there....

or in the very least get the state police in there.

[DrewFlorida]

31. Enough with the hyper exageration. It's bad enough!

[Tsiyu]

33. I agree with you, despite the SHOCKED ones -WE either have enforceable federal laws or we don't

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The feed tonight showed, with the arrests and assaults on the press, as well as the infringement of the right of the people to peaceably assemble - that federal laws are blatantly being violated.

Should it not matter to the administration because they aren't able to bust in on a medical cannabis dispensary? Are drug laws the only federal laws this administration sees fit to prosecute?

Should Obama not care because these are just poor, inner-city black people, and the cold-blooded murder of one of their children - followed by the violation of their right to protest this murder - doesn't matter to all the comfy suburbanites here? If it doesn't touch people's well-fed, well-shod existence, so the fuck what? Who cares Why should Obama do a damned thing?

Maybe there are a lot more self-serving cowards on this board than I thought.

BUT BUT THE ELECTION! WE'LL WORRY ABOUT THOSE BROWN PEOPLE GETTING TEARGASSED AND SHOT AT WITH RUBBER BULLETS AFTER THIS IMPORTANT ELECTION!

Are we a nation of laws or not?

[RandiFan1290]

37. K&R