You’ve got to hand it to Barack Obama. He has done something nobody in a million years would have dreamed possible. He’s made the Bush Administration’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster look like the very model of competence and compassion.

From the day of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, right up to last night, Obama has not given any indication that he has the slightest clue about what’s going on.

Remember how George W. Bush was faulted for his uncaring response to Katrina? How he was ridiculed for looking at the devastation through a window on Air Force One as he flew over New Orleans on his way back to Washington after cutting his vacation short? How rapper Kanye West told a nationwide television audience that “George Bush doesn’t are about black people” (while a sheepish-looking Mike Myers looked on)? Read more »