Hurricane Helene’s death toll eclipses 150 people. Joe Biden, six days after the storm reached land, remains far away.
Remember the massive criticism heaped upon President George W. Bush for his supposed indifference to Hurricane Katrina? That storm hit Louisiana on Monday, Aug. 29 (after a less-destructive sojourn in Florida a few days earlier). The president surveyed the destruction by air two days later. Two days after that, on Friday, Sept. 2, Bush visited devastated areas in Mississippi and Louisiana.
In other words, Joe Biden, who spent the weekend at the beach, takes longer to visit the areas ravaged by Helene than Bush did after Katrina.
But here, as in the Maui fires or the East Palestine train derailment, the same media that skewered Bush does not seem to notice Biden’s aloofness.
