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Obama goes all-out to avoid Katrina mistakes

By Hayley Peterson
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Obama goes all-out to avoid Katrina mistakes

President Obama began preparing for Hurricane Irene long before he was elected president. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, then-Sen. Obama condemned the Federal Emergency Management Agency for being “not just incompetent, but paralyzed and powerless.”

He criticized former President George W. Bush for watching Katrina victims “from the window of an airplane” and for promising government assistance that never arrived.

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