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2005: Obama criticized pre-Katrina ‘indifference’

By Charlie Spiering
Published August 26, 2011 4:00am ET
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2005: Obama criticized pre-Katrina ‘indifference’
From his vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard this morning, President Obama sternly warned people to evacuate, but how does that look compared to his criticism of the Bush administration regarding the response to Hurricane Katrina? Speaking in Harvard in 2005, President Obama criticized the Bush administration for “a passive indifference” when it came to evacuations. […]

From his vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard this morning, President Obama sternly warned people to evacuate, but how does that look compared to his criticism of the Bush administration regarding the response to Hurricane Katrina?

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