Heckuva job Obambi
by digby
There’s been a lot of talk over the past few years about epistemic closure and the like. But this isn’t a matter of living in two different media environments or seeing the world from another perspective. This is just straight up stupid:
A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.
The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government’s post-Katrina blunders.
Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren’t sure who to blame.
Not that I’m surprised, but honestly, this isn’t ancient history.
I feel sorry for them actually. How hard must it be for them to read a map or a recipe? This level of cognitive handicap has to make life in the modern world very stressful.
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