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</div><p>While everyone wants to blame it on President Trump, as I&rsquo;ve written before, the government is not our savior, so people need to get over the blame game and take care of themselves if they are physically and mentally able.&nbsp;</p><p>Those who don&rsquo;t, join the rank of perpetual victims when they refuse to acknowledge that they are able, with God&rsquo;s help, to take control over the rising water of their circumstances. Instead, they choose to assume zero responsibility for their situation and sit on the rooftop of their despair waiting for their government &ldquo;savior&rdquo; to rescue them. But it rarely does.</p><p>It is a lie to believe every malady known to man has absolutely nothing to do with poor choices, bad judgment or weak character. We cannot control nature, but we can make wise choices in the face of nature&rsquo;s onslaught.&nbsp;</p><p>Mark my words, the left-leaning media will do their best to blame everything on President Trump the same way they blamed Bush for Katrina. Bush cut his vacation short to do a flyover of New Orleans, yet was accused of being a racist by those seeking to paint a sitting Republican president in the worst possible light.</p><p>Of course, they looked the other way in 2016 when former President Obama continued to play golf at Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard as if nothing were happening during the Baton Rouge flooding.</p><div class="hlw"><div class="hl-wrapper">
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</div></div><p>Don&rsquo;t be surprised if NBC News&rsquo; Brian Williams shows up in Houston like he did in New Orleans. Williams and NBC News were awarded the Peabody award for misreporting <a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_d7266453-3a9a-56dd-a9ac-0ccebcd4f88e.html">un-facts</a> about un-events the Washington Post said Williams perhaps &ldquo;misremembered&rdquo; the same way he misremembered his helicopter <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/02/06/384309735/more-questions-emerge-about-brian-williams-comments">misadventure</a> in Iraq. Williams was eventually demoted for the kind of tale telling one would expect to hear while eating smores around a campfire at Lake Wobegon.</p><p>Surely, the media will go fishing in the floods for a million ways to blame Trump, it is heartwarming to know that during a devastating time such as this we have a president who cares.</p><p>Obama found time to pull away from Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard to attend a posh Hillary fundraiser, but was too busy to be comforter-in-chief in Baton Rouge. Obama was just smoke-and-mirrors. As a senator, he condemned Bush as the &ldquo;president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground to provide comfort and aid&hellip;&rdquo;</p><p>At least Bush showed up. And Trump too, wisely planning to visit locations hit by Harvey, while <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-avoid-houston-texas-visit-harvey-article-1.3449512">judiciously</a> avoiding areas where his presence could interrupt evacuations or emergency response.&nbsp;</p><p>Unlike the guy whom leftists believed walked on water and who promised on his watch the planet would heal and the waters would recede. Looking at Houston right now, it obviously didn&rsquo;t.</p>
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