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Updated:07:18, Sunday June 15, 2008

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given hands-on help in a flood zone in Illinois. Barack Obama In Illinois

He helped locals in the town of Quincy to fill sandbags to place on the banks of the Mississippi river, which is swelling to dangerous levels.

Authorities predict it will rise to record levels next week.

Mr Obama said: "Since I've been involved in public office we've not seen this kind of devastation."

He pledged to push federal and state governments to provide aid to the affected areas.

Mr Obama had been scheduled to campaign in nearby Iowa, but that state is also badly affected by flooding and he did not want to draw government resources away from battling the problems.

 

Even Obama states that this is worse then anything he has seen.

This is one time I will have to give Obama a thumbs up for, I can see by the picture that he is out of form when it comes to hard labor but instead of raising money for is campainge maybe he should do what Sr. Bush and bill did for New Orleans.

The differeance between New Orleans and and the flooding in the mid west, New Orleans is a party ground, they were too busy singing and dancing all night and couldn't wake up in time.

The mid west is a rise and shine get up early in the morning and work hard for a living area so they seen it comming, Instead of boozing it up they prepaird for what was comming.

First responce does not come from FEMA, it comes from yourself, if you know something is going to happen you react before it comes not after.