Obama Pledges to Finish Gulf Coast Recovery
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Raven Schneizer in Politics
President Barack Obama has promised to finish restoring the Gulf Coast that had been hit by Hurricane Katrina five years ago, destroying the region.
At the end of his week and a half long vacation with his family on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, Obama visited New Orleans, the city hardest hit by the storm.
“It was a natural disaster, but also a man-made catastrophe, a shameful breakdown in government that left countless men and women and children abandoned and alone,” Obama said in a speech at Xavier University.
In an interview with NBC News, Obama rejected any comparisons between his administration’s response to the spill and the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
“It’s just not accurate,” Obama said. “If you look we had — immediately thousands of vessels. Tens of thousands of people who are here.”
“We have a lot more work to do,” he said. But Obama said that because of a swift response, “there’s a lot less oil hitting these shores and these beaches than anybody would have anticipated given the volume that was coming out of the BP oil well.”
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