Barack Obama actually said...

"Well what I can say is is that local, state, federal officials working together did not seem to have a good plan to get those folks out."

"What we're doing is we're putting a CFO, a comptroller in the White House that is overseeing how this money gets spent."

"I introduced legislation this week to say that every state, local official working with the federal government has to have a plan to get out folks who are disabled, folks who are poor, folks who don't..."

"How could local, state and federal authorities let this debacle happen? Who should ultimately get the blame?"