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Article: Obama on defensive in New Orleans: ; Gulf Coast residents say hurricane relief still not fast enough
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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NEW ORLEANS - Insisting he's "just getting started," President
Obama defended his administration Thursday against complaints from
some residents of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast that federal help
in recovering from the 2005 disasters hasn't improved much since he
took office.
"We've got a long way to go, but we've made progress," Obama said
at a town hall-style meeting at the University of New Orleans.
"We're working as hard as we can and as quickly as we can."
As a presidential candidate, Obama criticized then-President
George W. Bush's response to Katrina, when the government showed up
late and unprepared and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
became the object of widespread scorn.