05-10-2007, 11:26 AM
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Cunning Runt
Location: Taking a mulligan
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Originally Posted by flstf
Obama's not stupid, the crowd cheered when he said 10,000 died and there is not enough National Guard to help with the tragedy because of the war. It was a partisan fundraiser crowd and 12 probably didn't seem to be enough of a tragedy for his purposes. Maybe if someone would have corrected him he could have said "nevermind" like Rosanna Rosannadanna on SNL.
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Well, he was either stupid or lying, since he was wrong about the National Guard, too. Sebelius is already admitting that what she said wasn't true.
http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/national/BO51553/
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...At Snow's second, midday briefing with reporters, he offered that it turned out that the state had requested several items that the federal government supplied -- those radios, and also a mobile command center and a mobile office building, an urban search and rescue team and coordination on extra Black Hawk helicopters.
Snow recounted a phone conversation on Tuesday between Sebelius and Bush's White House-based homeland security adviser, Fran Townsend, in which the governor said she was pleased with the federal performance on the tornado and had everything she needed.
About the same time, Sebelius was doing her own backpedal from across the country.
Her spokeswoman, Nicole Corcoran, said the governor didn't mean to imply that the state was ill-equipped to deal with this storm. Sebelius' comments about National Guard equipment were, instead, meant as a warning about the state's inability to handle additional disasters, such as another tornado or severe flooding, she said.
"We are doing absolutely fine right now," Corcoran said. "What the governor is talking about is down the road."
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