Will Christie Emerge from the Storm as ‘America’s Governor’?
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters today that “we reached out, I believe, to New Jersey and worked with the governor’s office to make this trip happen.” He danced around a question regarding what the president could get out of it politically.
Carney said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s statement that he didn’t want the president to visit “was agreeing with our assessment, which is that it was not appropriate at this time.”
Obama and FEMA director Craig Fugate touched down in Atlantic City just after 1 p.m. this afternoon, where he was greeted by Christie. The trio boarded a helicopter to survey the damage from the air, and the White House pool reporter noted the word “Romney” had been drawn in the sand at the north end of Point Pleasant Beach.
The officials then visited a community center in Brigantine, N.J., which is being used as a shelter. “I want to just let you know that your governor is working overtime to make sure that as soon as possible everybody can get back to normal,” Obama told the residents assembled at tables.
“It’s really important to have the president of the United States acknoweldge all the suffering that’s going on here in New Jersey and I appreciate it very much,” Christie said.
On subsequent tour stops, Obama stopped to take photos with Christie and residents and handed out Air Force One M&Ms to kids.
“I’m pleased to report that he has sprung into action immediately to help get us those things while we were in the car riding together,” Christie said of his wish list for federal help — everything from clean water to getting kids back to school — in joint remarks with Obama.
“So I want to thank him for that. He has worked incredibly closely with me since before the storm hit,” the governor continued. “I think this is our sixth conversation since the weekend, and it’s been a great working relationship to make sure that we’re doing the jobs that people elected us to do. And I cannot thank the President enough for his personal concern and compassion for our state and for the people of our state. And I heard it on the phone conversations with him, and I was able to witness it today personally.”
To residents he met on the tour who didn’t heed orders “to get the hell out of here,” Christie said, “You are forgiven this time, but not for much longer.”
Obama lauded Christie as being at “the top of my list” of those to thank.
“I have to say that Governor Christie throughout this process has been responsive; he has been aggressive in making sure that the state got out in front of this incredible storm,” the president said. “And I think the people of New Jersey recognize that he has put his heart and soul into making sure that the people of New Jersey bounce back even stronger than before. So I just want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership and partnership.”
“The president is doing what he needs to do as president, and this is the case of the governor doing his job,” Romney senior adviser Russ Schriefer told reporters on a conference call. “That’s it.”
Christie praised the president for being quick in getting disaster aid moving forward, and Democrats moved quickly to seize on that generosity.
Immediately after the tour, N.J. Sens. Robert Menendez (D) and Frank Lautenberg (D) sent a letter to the administration asking that the federal share for disaster response be upped ASAP due to the storm’s devastating effect on the state.
“The extraordinary scope of this disaster warrants an immediate increase in the federal portion of the cost-share from the typical 75 percent to 90 to 100 percent,” they wrote to Obama.
Hell no!
More like America’s fat a-holll!
RINO Christie will emerge as the self serving politician who will never get the Republican/Conservative nomination for any office outside NJ. Even Bloomberg realized that obama’s presence would hinder rather than help any recovery effort. obama just gets in the way of the people doing the real work.
Chris Christie is TWICE the person that Romney is and you would BE SO LUCKY as to get the chance to vote for him for President in 2016. He is a MAN who puts his state and his country ahead of himself. I’m sure he didn’t find tolerating the USURPER easy, but he did it for the good of New Jersey, and a man who does the RIGHT THING is always good with me.
1. Saying that someone “is TWICE the person that Romney is” is what’s known as
“damning with faint praise”. In other words, that ain’t saying much.
2. Yes, he did the right thing by working well with the administration during this crisis. NO, he did NOT have to gush and fawn over Obama the way he did.
3. Your boy Christie is one of the worst Muslim apologists we have in this country. He’s every bit as bad as the flacks in the Obama administration. He’s VERY MUCH part of the PROBLEM.
4. No, he’s not going to be running for President in 2016 or, God willing, anytime. Not as the nominee, anyway. He’s good on fiscal issues, at least by New Jersey standards (there’s that damning with faint praise, again), but on every other issue he’s a flaming liberal. (Rather like Romney, come to think of it.)
Right you are!
Who is voting for Mitt Romney? AKA let’s save America.
Catholics – who have been challenged by Obama in their faith and beliefs.
Blacks – who are against same-sex marriages as being immoral and who have suffered most from Obama’s failures.
Whites – who see that Blacks are voting for Obama because he’s Black; Whites will vote for Whites.
Republicans – none of which voted for Obamacare.
Tea Party followers – who like in 2010 are throwing out Liberals and RHINOS again.
Coal Miners – who are taking Obama’s threats to end coal mining in America seriously.
Vehicle drivers – those who are faced with TWICE the cost of gas since Obama took office.
Jobless workers – those who have been waiting for Obama to create jobs, but hasn’t; many have left the job market.
Stock and Bond holders – many of whom were shafted when GM and Chrysler went bankrupt.
Small Business owners – who have repeatedly been ignored by Obama.
Citizens against Obamacare – because of the upcoming increase in taxes and excessive regulation if Obamacare is not repealed.
Jewish folks – because Obama has not visited Israel even once since taking office; and Obama’s bad attitude toward Israel.
Hispanics – those who know that Obama’s failure to create sufficient jobs is hurting the U.S. economy in a bad way.
Business people – millions who are hesitant to grow because of the vast uncertainty due to Obama and Obamacare.
Workers – facing layoffs, underemployment and a worsening economy; lower wages.
Shoppers – those who see prices rising and product size shrinking; inventories reduced.
Concerned Citizens – who see the Benghazi incident as an Obama failure and even treasonous (un-American).
Concerned Citizens – who see Obama’s foreign policies as dangerous and failures.
Persons of Faith – who recognize Obama’s forcing provision by them of contraception to employees as Constitutional violations.
Gun owners – who have always been against the extreme liberal ideas Obama has for gun control.
Local government officials – who see Obama’s federal encroachment as unacceptable.
Truckers – who see the high price of gas as an attack on their livelihood.
Oil business – that reject Obama’s curbs on off-shore drilling.
Oil industry workers – that recognize the Keystone pipeline as Obama’s failure to encourage jobs and job growth.
Americans – who view Obama’s encouragement of high oil prices and lowered U.S. oil production as favoring OPEC and Arabs.
Concerned Congressmen – those that recognize that Obama has no cogent foreign policy, which could prove to be dangerous.
Individuals
Homeowners – who have seen their life saving and equity go down the drain because Obama has done nothing on the economy.
Health care providers – doctors and others who see Obamacare as a threat to their income; and harmful extreme regulations.
Concerned citizens – that are very concerned about the U.S. deficit and Obama’s extreme radical uncontrolled spending.
Others – concerned about Obama’s illegal activities, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, not defending DOMA, condoning illegal aliens.
Abortion foes – object to Obama’s callous lack of concern for the unborn and Obama’s radical third trimester abortion views.
Concerned Americans – who have been outright lied to by Obama when he claimed his administration would be transparent.
Car manufacturers – those that have seen car sales drop with Obama’s bad economy and economic policies hurting sales.
Housing developers – who like many others have seen the Obama economy cripple home construction and lower profits.
Mormons – who support Mitt Romney as a person of faith, good character, and honest principles.
Economists – that have expressed encouragement that Romney’s experience and knowledge will lead to true hope and results.
Military – seeing that Obama’s cuts will endanger their ability to protect our country.
Independents – who already have provided a surge for Romney, are convinced that the past 4 years of Obama is enough.
Evangelicals – who organized the largest get-out-the-vote for conservatism ever, in their concerted effort to defeat Obama.
Conservatives – a majority in U.S., are pushing hard to take the Senate, Presidency and House for the good of America.
Skeptics – who 4 years ago were duped into believing in Obama’s Hope and Change that eventually came to nothing, just lies.
Disillusioned Democrats – who have been utterly disappointed in Obama and will not vote for Obama or not vote at all.
and millions, millions more against Obama and his lies and failures.
Vote Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan. Let’s make America strong and great again because we can!
I am beginning to see my original opinion of Christie confirmed by his latest action by kissing Obama’s ass. He went way over the line of thanking the president and in so doing made himself look like the NE Liberal RINO that he really is. By telling Piers that “This is much more important than any election” he shows that he is not truly thinking of the nation but only of his immediate problem. Anyone who cares about our country knows that this election IS the most important thing in most of our lifetimes. NJ’s problems have been experienced by many other states many times before and they will overcome them in time. However the problem of an Obama next four years will take decades to overcome if he is re-elected. Christie has the little fat boy complex in that he shoots his mouth off about what you are doing wrong but when it is turned on him he gets angry and personal towards his attacker. Talking tough is one thing but using your position of a one way microphone is cowardly.
Christie IS a typical N/E RINO…
And a bully too, but he had to bully an even BIGGER bully to bully, namely the Public Sector Union, because they were eating the lunch he wanted for himself…namely, Taxpayers money that should be flowing to RINOS like him and Bloomberg…He’s trying to save the goose long enough to get those plumb Golden Eggs rolling the OTHER way, thats all.
Kissing Obamas ass was all about Money and Politics…
Money- Christie sounds fiscally tough, but notice he doesnt have any problem with “100% Federal payment” for Storm Damage…you folks in Kentucky and Wyoming can re-build Seaside Heights for the Jersey Shore crowd..ha-da-ya-like-dat? Jersey thugs (and Christie is one of them) dont pay for their own lunch…Schmucks do, you hear that Peoria?
Politics- Christie has to run again in 2013. Jersey is Blue…well, BLACK and Blue, capiche? If Obama is defeated (praise god!) the powers that be in Jersey will be in an angry mood (if the fires from the Riots arent still burning) A Plump White-boy from the “party of racists” that off’ed their boy needs to have some cred in “respectin’ Obama” if he wants his seat (and his fat ass) to be safe.
As far as Jersey Politics goes “Its like dis, see”
Corzine was a Frying Pan, held by the Unions.
Christie is the Fire, Stoked by RINO’S
The People?
They’re freakin’ wood.
Their only purpose, is to get BURNED
He’s at least twice the person as Romney- judging by his profile I’d say maybe three times the person. He’s also an obnoxious liberal blowhard without self-control who seems more interested in appearing on television shows than actually doing anything that might be constructive. America’s governor, what a joke.
Twice. No Three maybe Four Mitt Romneys!
I really can’t get a pulse on whether this diaster will help or hurt Obama. It can’t help or hurt Romney, I think. But it can have an impact on how people feel about Obama. I don’t have a pulse on the public sentiment, and when I don’t, I just look to how I feel. And although I will not be voting for Obama, the enthusiasm I felt about a Romney victory just 2 days ago seems to have calmed just a bit. Not turned, not shattered, but “chilled” a tad, if you will. I’m really hoping that the way I “feel” at the present moment does not accurately reflect how the electorate in places like Ohio feel. Let me ask you guys….how do you “feel” right now about the storm and its effect on Obama’s chances?
My response was going to be, “Are you for real?” And then I saw your name!
If someone (hey Superpacs – I’m talking to YOU!) was smart they would isolate that clip in Obama’s speech where he says we don’t leave Americans behind. And then show that picture of the four dead Americans he DID leave behind.
I feel like puking watching Christie act like Obama’s patsy. Of course, Christie did support a muslim Sohail Mohammed for superior court judge.
Let’s just say Christie is the kind of guy who eats whatever is in front of him.
Dead man walking after this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/31/exclusive-us-memo-warned-libya-consulate-couldnt-withstand-coordinated-attack/
He will be the man seen with Obama, minutes before the bang.
What is Christie doing? Does he want Obama to win so that he will have an easier run for potus in 2016? What a jerk. If Obama wins, we’ll remember.
It’s not looking as though Obama is going to win the election. Romney has a strategy, whatever it is, that is working; Romney keeps steadily moving ahead of Obama in all the polls (except the slanted MSNBC, CNN and other lib polls). The lib polls cheat without mercy, polling more liberal Democrats that any others to pump the false results.
New Joiseyites have never had more than a passing relationship with the real world. Now it seems that most of the nation as been sucked into the guts of the reality state. Is anyone ever going to put this “huge natural disaster” into any reasonable context?
And why the hell do I have to pick up the tab for federal aid, most of which is wasted to begin with?
Use federal troops to shoot looters, but leave the states on the hook for everything else. If louisiana didn’t have Bush to blame for their woes, they would have long since hung their treasonous government and cleaned up their 7-year mess.
So now a big, mouthy rino is a rock star?
If all the crap coverage of this storm reflects the feelings and understanding of joe and josette sixpack across the land, this country is SOOOOOO screwed.
Well both that Governor and mayor are gone. Kathleen Babineaux Blankstare didn’t event try against Bobby Jindal. Ray Nagin , term limited out of office, is now facing Federal fraud and racketeering charges. The new Mayor in Mary Landrieu’s baby brother and the Governor is the very effective, very bright Bobby Jindal.
New Orleans proper, well…
Christie’s trying to hedge his bet, thinking that if Romney doesn’t win on Tuesday, then 2016 will open up for the Fat Man. Trouble is, after this he’s going to have to run as the democrat.
With the Ummah on his side, he seems to feel safe. He has to get Soros on bord, of corse.
I’d rather he be seen as New Jersey’s governor. Just as I’d rather Bob “V-probe” McConnell be seen as Virginia’s governor. Stick to your states, guys. Thank you.
Nothing like playing “kiss-up”, Governor!
Pathetic! You are as bad as Obama. Using
this tragedy as a photo-op! Just wait.
Paybacks are H—! I used to like you.
My feelings EXACTLY. Appreciation for coming, yes. But it just was cringe worthy the overkill. To me, it screamed ‘future considerations’. BHO was doing HIS JOB! Christie will not get my future vote!
“He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother . . .”
Correction: He ain’t your brother, but he’s HEAVY. He may be working the double-agent roll. Once in the thick of the election next week, if Christie has a following and gets on board with Romney; perhaps the sheeple will follow.
NO< NO< NO!
Is this why he didn't go all out at the Republican convention?
Was he so upset that he wasn't picked as vP, even after he told everyone he wouldn't do it?
There's one thing to thank 0b0z0, but to go after Romney the way he did, I will not forgive him.
I know, I know, he could care less about me!
I don’t know where all this love of Christie came from. He’s anti-gun, pro-illegal, and soft on Islam. He pulled the wool over a lot of people’s eyes by standing up to some unions, which he had no other choice but to, or the state goes bankrupt. Now we are seeing the real Christie in action. You don’t get to be governor of New Jersey being a true conservative, sorry.
I totally agree with your assessment. At first I thought I liked Christie and then the more I found out about him the less I liked him. He and his behavior belong in New Jersey and no where else. Not a conservative.
There have been many names associated with Republican presidential politics which, in hindsight, suggest brainless infatuation. Colin Powell and Ariana Huffington come to mind. Chris Christie will eventually join that group. He is a pompous git, abrasive and offensive, revoltingly obese and he should not in any way be a Republican role model.
Not understanding all the hate.
I mean this was just a week ago — Christie strongly advocating for Romney, playing the attack-dog role he does so well.
Right now he’s the governor of a state in crisis. If a photo op with Obama gets the federal aid his people need (Have we forgotten the Texas wildfires?) — then he has a duty to hold his nose and do the photo op.
Really not getting the hate. Are people really that afraid that Obama’s going to get a huge boost out of this?
Of course people are afraid obama will get a big boost in the election because of this.
There’s a whole lot of moronic voters out there. How do you think Obama got elected in the first place?
Did he have to play nice with the administration on this? Of course he did.
He did far more than just play nice. He became a one-man cheerleader squad for Obama.
That’s reason for hate.
Ooops. Sorry, I should have said, “reason for ANGER”.
I made the mistake of following your incorrect word. Disagreement isn’t hate, and anger isn’t hate.
Assuming they are is leftist.
Christie is about one thing & one thing only: His future aspirations as POTUS.
As far as I am concerned Christie is finished as a national Republican. If Romney wins anyway, he might get a reprieve, otherwise he’s toasst. There’s nothing wrong with working with the President and the federal government in the event of an emergency, but the degree of sucking up and the extent of the praise goes way too far a week ahead of the election.
If Obama wins, there will be a narrative that Christie is who won it for Obama and that’s not a tag any Republican should want. Maybe he can be suburban Bloomberg and stand as an independent.
If he thinks this paves the way for him in 2016, he’s a lunatic. Once you have a reputation as a backstabber, you won’t get rid of it so quickly. Good luck with the primaries, Chris.
In all fairness, McCain was the king of the backstabbers for eight years and somehow not only did he make it through the primaries, the people of Arizona put his worthless tookus back into the Senate.
i would agree with you if it weren’t for the fact that we have the most narcissistic Chicago style president, ever. If he didn’t suck up i can’t imagine that Obama would be very fond of giving money to a “major” attack dog on the right. think back to 2009 – and Obama’s “I WON”.
So, you’re saying that, if Christie hadn’t sucked up to him, Obama would have been mean to him, so that justifies Christie sucking up.
Right.
I’m thinking “Stupidest Governor.”
Is it just me or is Christie acting like a guy with his gaze firmly fixed on 2016? His convention speech was less about Romney than it was about himself. IMO he stood up there and polished his own resume with the laundry list of accomplishments that he ticked off – all belonging to himself.
When he first hit the national spotlight I was rather fascinated about him. After that convention speech I lost all fascination with him. I wondered if the RNC had vetted that speech.
This guy is just another in a long line of shameless New England RINOs with a resume to polish and he’ll use the president as background if thats what it takes to make himself look good. Of course the president was doing the same thing today – using each other in a most shameless manner.
If, god forbid, shit really hits the fan in NJ by the weekend neither Obama or Christie are going to be relishing this opportunistic circle jerk.
The thing I haven’t heard yet in all of this is just what amazing, special thing Obama actually did to earn Christie’s praise. Did Obama actually do something truly above and beyond the norm to help New Jersey get the help it needs? Or did he just do whatever any other president would have done in similar circumstances?
I’m still trying to figure the angle on this. To politicians, everything is political. And if they deny it, multiply by two. If they’re offended, multiply by five.
So, on the surface: CC puts aside politics to get fema funding unleashed
Next level down: BO wants to be seen as presidential, caring
Next level: CC is either: looking toward 2016 and screwing the pooch, so to speak, OR keeping BO busy so he can’t complain OR Showing he knows that Romney will win by so much that it doesn’t matter if he’s seen with BO
It might be a bit much to assume that he’s a mole, but who knows? Maybe they have something really damning on the fellow.
I’m not sure…still tossing around ideas. But things are rarely as simple as they seem.
One other thought.
It would be truly heart-breaking if Romney got this close to being President and then Christie’s praise for Obama somehow elevated Obama just enough to win a second term. I can’t begin to express the frustration I would feel if all Romney’s hard work was defeated by a response to a storm that Obama neither created nor stopped. The thought of an “act of god” saving a guy who probably has no god but Karl Marx would be just more irony than I could take at this point.
Newark was without electricity for 24 hours.
The governors of New Jersey and new York are joined together with the Port Authority, which runs PATH, which is all flooded.
Sandy made landfall on the Jersey shore, which has been re-arranged.
Based on what NY’s Gov. Cuomo said about the downstate transportation system,
I think the taunting from London to build the surge gates has really sunk in.
Maybe the real question is why so many millions of people knowingly live in flood-prone areas, and should the accident of history be reinforced with massive new rebuilding of the transport network, maybe with the deployment of more wave electricity, which has been tested in the East River.
crikey. give Gov. Christie a break. All the other governors probably asked him to be the host, and we still have six days to go.
The United States Navy has deployed amphibious ships to serve as offshore bases, because infrastructure is so devastated.
The USN awaits orders from…FEMA.
This had me seething earlier. Then I realized that Dancing With The Stars is still on, most people can’t name their own Senator, and Honey Boo Boo has record ratings. In the overall rage meter, this = meh.
Christie is done. Screw that SOB. I will support the Dem in his election to pay that SOB back.
Christie has crap for brains…
Cozying up to the Treasonous bastard opink. Is Benedict Arnold like….~
Let him join charlie Crist on the ashheap of RINO scum.
I am not by any stretch a Gov. Christie fan, however, I applaud him for being principled not partisan in this situation, he is a Gov. of a state that has extreme devastation, I doubt the folks that are homeless and have lost everything would have appreciated him snubbing the President when they need FEMA help.
I have been a life long GOP’er but lately some of the Republicans are very off putting, they are looking to much like the rapid left with some of the snarky comments.
It is easy to criticize when you have a roof over your head, electricity and purified water. Try to be a little grateful for your good fortune!
Bingo!
One could be civil & respectful to Obama as the president. Christie was fawning over this guy.——–Way over the top!
Principled would have been to act politely and with respect toward the President, and to work with the administration to get everything done that can be done.
Christie went WAAAAAY beyond that.
Sucking up isn’t principled.
christy first and always is about christy. that and the clear inference that he doesn’t like romney ought to be clear after the hatchet job he did for obama as romney tries to come from behind. if he’s America’s governor then i’m moving to guam (just kidding).
to summarize, christy defines and personifies the word RINO.
I love it. I actually like Chris Christie. I like his attitude and his directness. I disagree with a heck of a lot of what he does and what he stands for (I think I’ve literally bristled at the way he’s treated teachers), but the guy himself, I could see myself quite liking.
And I think I can say the same about a lot of republicans. I say the same about Mitt Romney. I think Romney’s a really nice guy. John McCain, too. Heck – I think I’d even probably really like Sarah Palin if I met her. I DON’T think I’d like Bill Clinton, by way of comparison. I definitely don’t think I’d like Al.
But I am finding this thread hilarious. Christie is doing the very thing that he has been elected to do – look after his state and its interests. By all accounts, he’s doing that (and WHY hasn’t it occurred to anyone to start posting fake horror stories? I mean, come on – What IS Fox doing? They’re slipping. Come ON people – start making stuff up about FEMA and football stadia!!).
Christie is doing his job. And I suspect that he’s doing it honestly. I don’t doubt for a second that the fact that this is happening on the eve of an election means that every single resource available to the executive is making sure that the rescue/support/cleanup/recovery is going as smoothly as it can possibly go. Maybe that’s playing into Christie’s thinking, maybe it isn’t. I actually suspect that it isn’t.
But he IS being a very good governor right now. Just this week. If that means working with Obama, well, suck it up – that’s where the “incumbent’s advantage” comes from. Right now, Obama IS the executive.
But you should actually be pretty happy about this. The polling in swing states has been suggesting a very narrow Obama win, and it’s been doing that steadily for a couple of weeks. This way, when that comes to pass, you can all blame it on Frankenstorm, Chris Christie, and some sort of bizarre conspiracy involving NASA, NOAA, MSNBC and America’s weather forecasters.
You should be happy. This is your “out”
I admit that Christie is being a good govenor for this crisis. That does not include fawning over Obama for FEMA support. One can be polite & civil but a** kissing doesn’t count as being polite & civil!
If you were a responsible governor of a state in a severe health/safety crisis and knew that a potential major source of assistance is an amoral egotist/narcissist with delusions of grandeur—wouldn’t you try flattery as a tool to get what’s needed ASAP? Here is a politician actually behaving apolitically at a potential risk to his career, and some fools want to punish him! Take a break from political obsession and think!
People like you disgust me. You assume that everyone is like you – completely unprincipled and willing to be obsequious and grovelling to get what you want.
News flash for ya: It’s possible to be a real man and STILL get what you need.
So true.
I kind of liked our rotund governor and his no nonsense style, until I listened to him with my own ears. No wonder the media is infatuated with Chris Christie. He’s flawed as Colin Powell was flawed and not to be trusted. The press smells the malleable Republican willing to bend to their wishes.
I can admire Christie’s tough act against the unions and still say no way I would vote this self-absorbed clod as Republican President, lest it be running against Obama.
That convention speech of Chunkstie’s was the most self-serving piece of garbage I’ve heard in quite some time – actually Clintonian. I think Christie, while more gifted than Obama, has some of the same personal flaws.
Namely, love of self.
Skinny and fatty sleeping in a bed, fatty rolled over and skinny was dead. (nothing rymes with camera )
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As for America’s governor? Only in liberal la la land. Fly over country should never forget how Obama treated Jindal in Louisiana after the Deepwater disaster and Perry after the wild fires in Texas.
Christie is giant ham for the camera. He is a fool for doing photo ops with the worst president ever as if Obama would block or slow down disaster aid to the very blue New Jersey. It’s all optics for the easily fooled or those without long term memory.
No…….
Will Christie Emerge from the Storm as ‘America’s Governor’?
Not in my eyes. Gun rights need to be addressed in his home state before he even gets a look.
He stands alone as the governor with the biggest mouth!
I thought Jerry Brown would serve as the model for America’s governor. He is leading the state into bankruptcy, both in monetary and ideological terms.
Obama had few surprises. In his speech, the man from the party of over-regulation said that if anyone seeking relief was held up by red tape, to just phone him. So the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which I suppose is for emergencies, is faced with one now,and the rule maker says, “Just break the rules, I’m in charge here, and the rules don’t apply to me”.
Bridget should be given the “Naivety of the Year” award.
She has broken all records of how wrong can you be in a single 1,000 word piece.
Not to say that the rest of the media is much better; they are, perhaps, just by not getting a grip of what Christie’s action really means – with exception, of course, of the piece by America’s Chronicle, “Christie’s Ambitions Behind The Opening To The President”.
Their correct thesis is that Christie is looking beyond his disagreements – in style and substance – with Mitt Romney and positioning himself to run in 2016, and making sure that he doesn’t do it against and incumbent president.
Quite revealing and original thinking at http://www.AmericasChronicle.com
CC overshot the mark.
I hope Christie is happy with the results of his suck-up to Obama, but he will never be the president after this blatantly self-centered behavior. His disregard for the damage he could have done by kissing Obama’s ass convinces me that he shares some disturbing similarities to the narcissism we have all seen in Obama.
For those shallow “thinkers” who argue that Christie was simply trying to get help for New Jersey, let me point out the painfully obvious fact that Obama is giving money to help New Jersey to help himself, not Christie. Obama has no choice but to lavish federal funds on all of the effected states, regardless of who the governors are. Once this crisis is over, Obama would gladly throw Christie under the bus….if he could find one with that much ground clearance.
Just another pandering rino….
I think CC’s attitude towards Obama HELPS Romney. It shows a Republican can reach across the aisle and get democrat(ic) support to solve a crisis. CC is not running for president in 6 days. Politically, it’s a win for Romney
I call that stinking POS “Fat Bastard” for a reason. Yesterday, we all got to see the reason.
The bitterness reveals a lot more about the posters, than it does about Christie. Bitter, angry folks, whom life is apparently treating badly. I thought he gave a great speech at the convention, better than Clinton’s. You guys hate Obama so much that Christie’s saying nice things about him just blew your minds, something, apparently, not very hard to do.
Christie has an ego more massive than his waist line. You need wide angled lens to fit both Christie’s and Obama’s ego in the same frame.
No. There are people in office and other areas of influence in NJ who are so utterly corrupt, seeing suffering of fellow citizens will not move them to do the right thing even with Governor Christie’s bullhorn in their ear. Governor Christie has been valiant in his attempts to change the culture of corruption. Sadly it would take multiple administrations and honest US Attorney’s (as Christie was) to affect the change needed.
Two pros playing perception against reality for (mostly) personal benefit.
Brings back the old saw about “How bad is the recession?”
So bad the MOB laid off three Judges in Jersey.
Think Christie has ‘bent over’ so far he’ll never be able to straighten up!
He will never be President.
New Jersey needs assistance from the Feds, Obama used this to promote his election. Christie was over the top, appearing to be using the photo op to promote himself. A mere thanks would have sufficed. There are now two critical issues for the great state of New Jersey. First, getting back to normalcy and helping those who need it. The second and equally important is getting rid of a President that is crippling New Jersey and the rest of the country.
I thought Christie knew that.