One Result of Hurricane: Bipartisanship Flows
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/in-stunning-about-face-chris-christie-heaps-praise-on-obama.html?ref=global-home
“I cannot thank the president enough for his personal
concern and compassion for our state,” he added during a brief news conference.
He said it was “my honor” to turn the podium over to the president and then stood
just behind him, occasionally nodding and smiling at his jokes.
For all the disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy, the most
unexpected may have been its unsettling effect on a presidential campaign
winding into its final days. Perhaps nothing demonstrated the sudden upending
of a political landscape years in the making so much as Mr. Christie’s
unexpected and effusive praise of Mr. Obama. Only last week he dismissed the
president as “clutching for the light switch of leadership.”