Op-ed:
One day of pseudo-compassion and it’s back to campaigning

By: Diane Sori

 

Superstorm Sandy came, saw, and conquered...and left unbelievable devastation in its wake.

Especially in New Jersey where simply put...the famed Jersey Shore is under water.

And Sandy also left an unlikely love-fest that is really sickening to watch.  New Jersey is hurting NO doubt about it, but Governor Chris Christie is actually hurting his state more by lavishing praise on a president who is using the suffering of Jersey’s residents for political fodder and political fodder alone, with Christie falling for it hook, line and sinker.

Governor Christie is indeed shell-shocked by the scope of the damage and is a truly caring person, and while his statement that the devastation wrought by the storm is too important for petty politics might ring true for him it is NOT true for Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

Why...because he now has the perfect foil to hide behind to deflect attention away from his being put under the microscope for Benghazi.

So while Obama tries to come across as an effective and caring commander-in-chief while touring the storm’s destruction at the Jersey shore (with camera crew in tow for photo-ops I might add) saying all the right words and making all the promises Governor Christie wants to hear, it’s all for show and show alone for how can he make us believe he cares for the storm’s victims when he didn’t care about the victims of the brutal murderous attack in Benghazi.

And by the way, touring areas of such major destruction is part of his presidential job description...as in what he's doing is expected NOT something he's doing by choice or because he really cares.

But you know what...Obama’s for the camera dog and pony show really won’t matter as most people have already decided who they’re going to vote for, in fact, many have already voted.  And with Obama returning to the campaign trail today, the reality is that he gave up only one day’s campaigning to focus on the storm's victims...only one day to have to force a phony look of compassion on his face...only one day and he’s gone NOT to give them a thought again.

Well you know what, what's so sorrowful about it is that it's one more day than he gave Ambassador Stevens and the others.

Some commander-in-chief...some leader...some phony.

And what’s really sad is that Governor Christie, through his tears and his anger about what he called ‘unfathomable damage’ is NOT seeing that he and his fellow Jerseyites are being used as the poster children for a man who will promise them everything and then deliver them nothing.

“We will rebuild it...but for those of us who are my age, it won’t be the same” Christie said, but having lived through Andrew and Wilma I can safely tell him it will be rebuilt, and once the waters recede what at first appeared unfathomable will become doable and fixable, and it will be done in spite of Obama’s one day episode of caring.  

One day of caring in the scope of things means nothing as do Obama’s promises of help for help would have come with or without his politically motivated bloviations...Obama knows it, Christie will come to know it, and the people of New Jersey already know it, for shows of compassion one day in duration will soon be replaced by the reality that once he can’t use their situation for his personal gain Barack HUSSEIN Obama will turn his back on them just as he’s turned his back on Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glenn Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.

Talk is cheap...actions speak louder than words, and the actions or lack thereof by Barack HUSSEIN Obama speaks volumes with no further words needed.