Flashback: Obama ripped Bush’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ during Hurricane Katrina

Published August 18, 2016 3:16pm ET



President Obama, under fire for golfing on posh Martha’s Vineyard during a week of anguished cries for help from flooded Louisiana, ripped former President Bush 11 years ago when the Republican was seen as slow to react to Hurricane Katrina’s crash into New Orleans.

Obama, who had just returned from New Orleans, preached on the Senate floor about Bush’s poor reaction to similar cries for help during Katrina.

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