Rhode Island flood victims miffed at Barack Obama’s snub

  Barack Obama was in Maine last night stumping for his healthcare reform legislation– I find it telling that he still has to sell this to the American people even after he has signed it, but that is not the topic of this post– and on his way to Maine he made an unscheduled stop in Framingham Massachusetts to meet with FEMA about the flooding in Massachusetts after the recent storms. It just so happens that the governor of Massachusetts is a long time associate of Barack Obama.

  Meanwhile Rhode Island residents were hoping that the president might pay a visit to their flood ravaged state to survey the damage done by the worst flooding in Rhode Island in over 200 years and offer a few words of encouragement to help keep their spirits high. After all, he did stop in Massachusetts, and the flooding in Rhode Island dwarfs the flood damage of Massachusetts; Rhode Island was the hardest hit New England state. It seemed likely to the residents of Rhode Island that the man they gave their electoral votes to would at least make an appearance there.

  They were wrong and many are disappointed at what they consider a snub by Barack Obama.

  Barack Obama flew over the flooded state but apparently he was too busy to actually stop and show a little sympathy to those that are suffering so much right now. Needless to say, this has angered and bewildered many Rhode Island residents. They don’t understand why he couldn’t find a couple of hours to tour their state when he was already in the area to begin with.

“I don’t see why the president wouldn’t come,” added Jessica Lamourux. “Just to let people know that something is on the way, and something is being done”

  That is a sentiment that is being repeated by many residents of Rhode Island.

  Barack Obama found it more important to try to persuade the residents of Maine that the healthcare reform law is a good law, and he thought that it was more important to attend two $30,000 a ticket fundraisers, than actually touring a state where so many people ares struggling in the wake of a natural disaster.

  But this public relations nightmare gets even worse for the president, during his campaign healthcare reform speech in Maine he actually had the audacity to say, “I looked up at the sky to see if asteroids were coming. I looked at the ground to see if cracks had opened up in the earth. You know what, it turned out it was a pretty nice day.” And he said this while the pictures below show what some people are going through not all that far away.

  Is it any wonder that the residents of Rhode Island are a little perturbed at the president? He didn’t seem to find them worthy of a presidential visit, or at least as worthy of a visit as the fundraisers that he found so important.