In TV interviews and on Twitter, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a staunch backer of Mitt Romney, was effusive in his praise on Tuesday for President Barack Obama’s handling of Hurricane Sandy.
“It’s been very good working with the president,” Christie said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “He and his administration have been coordinating with us. It’s been wonderful.”
ContinueOn NBC’s “Today,” Christie said the president had been “outstanding” and FEMA’s response has been “excellent.”
The GOP governor also sent out a thankful tweet: “I want to thank the President personally for all his assistance as w recover from the storm.”
Christie said he spoke with Obama three times on Monday, including at midnight, when Obama agreed to speed along an major disaster declaration for New Jersey without all the “normal FEMA mumbo jumbo.”
The declarations for New Jersey and New York were issued this morning.
“The president has been all over this and he deserves great credit,” Christie said. “I’ve been on the phone with him, like I said, yesterday, personally three times. He gave me his number at the White House, told me to call him if I needed anything. And he absolutely means it.”
Read more: Hurricane Sandy 2012: Chris Christie heaps praise on Obama - Kevin Robillard - POLITICO.com
Some people actually do the job of working with others on the other side of the aisle.
Some people merely pretend that they can.
A tip of the hat to the NJ governor for his honesty.
Not a huge deal...heck...I have given him tons of props for continuing the Bush programs for fighting terrorists and killing them using the drones and other advanced intel gathering techniques. Some things he has done well. His response to the gulf oil spill? Impotent. Foreign policy? Impotent. Deficit and mounting debt? Impotent. Unemployment? Impotent. Sure...when our ambassador was getting slaughtered in Libya he decided it was expedient to fly to Nevada for a campaign rally and he took a beating for that. So he learned a bit and hey...just before the election he is really by golly attentive to this particular storm (where was he during the flooding in 2011?). Hey...every once in a while...when it is politically expedient, the blind squirrel manages to find a few nuts.
I can see the apocolypse from here!
Nah, that's just Christie bending over to pick up his pencil.
Looks like Mitt's boy has a man crush on the President!
Unemployment - recovered the 4.5 million jobs lost in the first 18 months of his admin. He stopped the hemmoraging and that ain't impotency.
Your right, nobody can be all things to all people, not even St.Reagan.
"He" didn't stop anything. The market corrected itself.
Naturally everything good that has happened in the last four years happened by accident, and everything bad that's happened was personally engineered by Obama. Can you get any more ridiculous?
Only a totally blind partisan would view the gulf oil spill as a success.His response to the gulf oil spill? I guess $20 billion in cash wasn't enough? I recall that right going nuts because he basically told the oil companies involved to cough up the dough.
His record on foreign policy? pretty damn good actually. Pulled out of Iraq, invaded pakistan, supported the deposing of four dictators, got NATO to clean up its own backyard, got China to increase the yuan by 11%, decimated the Lord's Resistance Army, helped southern sudan cede from the north, took out a bunch of somali pirates, showed China the 7th fleet, got crippling sanctions against Iran, helping syrians with arms and training, etc.
Deficit and debt, can't call 4 trillion increase impotent.
Unemployment - recovered the 4.5 million jobs lost in the first 18 months of his admin. He stopped the hemmoraging and that ain't impotency.
Your right, nobody can be all things to all people, not even St.Reagan.
obama's foreign policy has been a major success which is why every ally on the planet wants obama to win by massive margins. Just getting the rest of the developed world to start talking with the USA again, let alone helping and even taking the lead in Libya was a HUGE issue, what with Bush. Bolton and the rest of those globally detested, warmongering numbskulls insulting, trying to bully and pissing all their allies off for almost a decade. Remember during Bush when the western world voted NK and the USA as the greatest threats to world peace? yeah, its hard to remember just how bad things were back then in this new and improved climate.
This kind of stuff was par for the course back then:
Outrage at 'old Europe' remarks
I am happy that Christie acknowledged Obama.
I am disturbed that, in this day and age, a Republican complimenting a Democrat is news.
The news is he is fighting with a few Mayors, one in particular who seemed to allow people to stay behind when the buses were there to take them inland for safety.
Naturally everything good that has happened in the last four years happened by accident, and everything bad that's happened was personally engineered by Obama. Can you get any more ridiculous?
Yes actually.
I'll concede the point -- you did get even more ridiculous.
Looks like Mitt's boy has a man crush on the President!
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