Photos: "Obama Send Help" (The Obama Presidency, Day 468)

[Clio the Leo]

Actor Zach Galifianakis visits the South Lawn during a tour of the White House to watch U.S. President Barack Obama depart in the Marine One helicopter for a trip to Louisiana to witness the response to oil spill damage along the Gulf Coast, from Washington, May 2, 2010.



http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/02/a-massive-and-potentially-unprecedented-environmental-disaster">"A Massive and Potentially Unprecedented Environmental Disaster"
President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. ,


Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, left, walks with President Barack Obama on the tarmac at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. , on Sunday, May 2, 2010.














"So, you mean to tell me, that thing that blew up in Iceland ... THAT was a VOLCANO? Wow!"


President Barack Obama is briefed by National Incident Commander U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen in Venice, La. , as he visits the Gulf Coast region


Andrew Nyman, Associate Professor Wetland Wildlife Management & Ecology of LSU AgCenter, walks next to twisted oil booms at the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana, where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, May 1, 2010. A huge wind-driven oil slick bore down on the U.S. Gulf coast on Sunday, threatening an environmental catastrophe, and the Obama administration heaped pressure on BP Plc to halt the uncontrolled spill from its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well. Since the explosion and sinking last week of the Deepwater Horizon rig, a disaster scenario has emerged with hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil spewing unchecked into the Gulf and moving inexorably northward to the coast.


Andrew Nyman, Associate Professor Wetland Wildlife Management & Ecology of LSU AgCenter, collects samples of beach sand beside oil booms at the coast of South Pass, south of Venice, Louisiana




Randy Lanctot, Director of Louisiana Wildlife Federation, walks past oil booms at the coast of South Pass,




U.S. President Barack Obama visits local fishermen after touring the Coast Guard Venice Center in the Gulf of Mexico region




US President Barack Obama greets members of the US Coast Guard


U.S. President Barack Obama talks after touring the Coast Guard Venice Center in the Gulf of Mexico region to view environmental damage caused by the sinking of BP's oil and gas Deepwater Horizontal drilling rig while in Venice, Louisiana, May 2, 2010. The spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to be an unprecedented environmental disaster, Obama said on Sunday.








Jessica Thorton, Tammy Moreau, Brittany Ortis, Sandra Moreau and Barbara Pokorney position a sign for the Presidential motorcade to see as it passes by en route to the Coast Guard Station May 2, 2010 in Venice, Louisiana.

[FrenchieCat]

1. What does that last picture supposed to mean?

Not only has he already sent help, but he is fucking there, on the ground, in the rain.

[Clio the Leo]

well, you know, given I'm such an Obama basher and all...

.... it's a photo .... and photography, even journalistic, is an art form. So it's subjective.

If I were caught in the midst of a disaster of this magnitude and Bush was President, would I have gone to the road to meet his motorcade with a homemade sign begging for help?

Probably not .... I think it would have been a waste of my time and effort.

Maybe they're asking for help because they feel they might actually get some this time?

[tekisui]

10. If it were bush, and it were me, I might have a sign.

It sure wouldn't be asking for help.

[Clio the Leo]

13. A simple hand gesture might suffice....

... save the trouble of buying the paint. ;)

[onehandle]

Looks like a message of encouragement in this situation.

Put your tin foil hat away.

[MadMaddie]

5. Who knows! They probably don't know.

[asphalt.jungle]

8. in keeping with the katrina meme and devaluing the loss of well over a thousand lives

they watch the news, that's a sure fire way for them to get on cable. those poor suffering women have seen dead bodies floating by and are now homeless. they'll be sent all across the country and be referred to as refugees. it's his katrina and if dehydrated black people could have signs like that for bush why not for obama.

[tekisui]

11. They are poor spellers. They meant to write 'Obama Sent Help'.

[Clio the Leo]

14. well there ya go. :-) NT

[ChicagoSuz219]

24. You beat me to it! n/t

[O is 44]

16. I'm with you FrenchieCat something tells me that

this is not sincere. I know that sounds mean but all the hate and the rightwing/MSM trying to turn this into his Katrina moment is turning me into a cynic. Besides the Coast Guard has been working since day 1.

On to another subject that right wing hack John King just had that failed Bush Homeland Security lady on refuting Janet Napolitano’s statement about the bomb attempt in NYC. Stupid failures should not be used as point persons on the so called “most trusted name in news”. Ugh!

[freddie mertz]

30. You have no basis for "suspecting" them of anything. nt.

[jberryhill]

33. Two of them have myspace pages...

You can probably go from there...

[freddie mertz]

29. That they are people in a crisis situation?

What do you expect them to say?

DON"T send help? We are doing just fine?

What you seem to be objecting to is the reality captured by the photograph.

Every day can't be a sunny happy smiley one....

[MadBadger]

2. Did the President Paint his face for his trip to the Gulf Coast?

Cuz it sure looks like it.

[Clio the Leo]

4. that's a bad photoshop waiting to happen isn't it? NT

[onehandle]

7. Looks like he's wearing a green Obama mask. Maybe he's showing his environmental support. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

9. that is the glow

coming off the projector.

[onehandle]

3. That dude who met Obama on the tarmac in Kenner better have his papers if he goes to Arizona. nt

[Clio the Leo]

6. heh. NT

[asphalt.jungle]

12. they thought that guy could go up against obama?

visuals play a role in elections and he looks like someone obama could accidentally step on.

[Clio the Leo]

15. Sometime when you're bored...

... go back and watch his speech again. It's even MORE hilarious now that some time has past.

[O is 44]

19. "step on" no shit, Mr. Who needs Volcano monitoring n/t

[bmbmd]

17. Wow.

In my many, many years on DU-these are my favorite photos ever. Hopey Changey, indeed. I am moved to tears by the competence and gravitas of this man. We are in good hands.

[Clio the Leo]

18. I realize this is a very serious matter and it affects real people's lives...

... but setting that aside, this photo ....




... is a Shepard Fairey collage waiting to happen.

[FightingIrish]

20. We're looking at a man who, if he disn't have a country to run

and a world to fix, would be down there cleaning off the birds.

[Clio the Leo]

21. awww...

.... this is one of those times I wish I could KICK! & REC! a post!

[HughMoran]

22. This is a serious person doing a serious job

I trust his instincts

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. So do I. Thank you for saying it.

[Hekate]

26. Absolutely. What a hell of a time in history for him to be the POTUS. My gods what an awful job.

I, too, trust his instincts -- not to mention his brains.

Hekate

[Flying Dream Blues]

36. Me, too. I really appreciate how hard he works and how serious he takes

everything. I don't always understand or agree, but I am always proud of our President.

[Nedsdag]

25. The last photo is rather telling.

Louisiana, a red state quite hostile to the president, asking him for help from the government.

Ironic, isn't it?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. that last photo irritates me

Are there no women doing any serious, useful work in this situation, or did the photographer just single out a big "we're helpless victims" moment led by the ladies' auxiliary useless sign contingent?

[NJmaverick]

28. K and R for a man of action

[Jennicut]

31. Is Jindal actually happy the President is there?

Very interesting...

[Phx_Dem]

32. I know this is not the point, and thank you for posting the photos Clio, but

that man sure does look good wet.

:blush:

I know . . . that's tacky and shallow. I couldn't help myself. }(

[Diamonique]

34. Don't fret, Phx_Dem. I'm right there in that shallow pool with ya! :-)

[Arkana]

35. "I ever hear another peep out of you about how the government is worthless, Piyush..."

"...and I'll kick your scrawny little ass."