Obama praised by Chris Christie

President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who is a Republican who is one of Mitt Romney's most vocal supporters was recently walking together in a show of government unity. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and never more so than when natural disaster strikes. And so it was that Obama, mired in both disaster relief and the fight for re-election, landed Wednesday in New Jersey for a joint tour of storm damage with Christie, a potential future presidential candidate who delivered the keynote address that tore into Obama during this year's Republican national convention. Stepping onto the tarmac in Atlantic City, N.J., Obama greeted Christie with a smile and repeated pats on the back. They walked side by side, two leaders confronting trying times, toward the helicopter that took them high above Sandy's destruction. Later, they walked the storm-ravaged streets together, talking with Sandy's victims. "I cannot thank the president enough for his personal concern and compassion for our state and the people of our state," Christie said later in Brigantine, N.J., praising what he called "a great working relationship" that started even before the storm hit. "Gov. Christie throughout this process has been responsive. He's been aggressive in making sure the state got out in front of this incredible storm," Obama added, thanking the Republican for his "extraordinary leadership and partnership." Though Christie is a Romney support his personal preference shifted because he needed help to save New Jersey and he couldn't do it on his own, so of course he was ecstatic over seeing Obama. This is also a good tactic for Obama because he is being seen as the hero to the rescue to American voters although Obama is just doing his job.

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