He was in a hanger with absolutely no evacuees, not even photo op ones, and just drooled on about how the red cross needs cash, send cash. Then he went on to giggle about how he used to come to NOLA a lot as a college kid. Then he flew Air Force One out of NOLA without taking anybody from NOLA with him. Disgusting.
Let's play compare and contrast.
Gore was also in NOLA yesterday, personally loading critically ill patients into a plane he chartered (and paid for) and taking them to hospitals in Tennessee. Gore would have been there days earlier, but FEMA jerked him around about getting clearance for the flight.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4054083,00.htmlHaven from fury Mercy Flight Brings Evacuees to ET
Gore accompanies about 140 arrivals from New Orleans but declines to take credit
By ROBERT WILSON
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About 140 people - mostly elderly and infirm - arrived Saturday at McGhee Tyson Airport on a chartered mercy flight from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, welcomed to East Tennessee by a bright sun and a host of medical professionals straining at the reins to help their fellow human beings without regard to whether they were on the clock.
The displaced hurricane victims came to Tennessee on a hastily arranged flight, accompanied by doctors and carrying whatever they had in boxes, bags or, in one case, an old suitcase tied up with rope.
Former Vice President Al Gore arranged the flight and was on board, but he declined to take credit for the airlift, fearing it would be "politicized."
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