Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said Tuesday that President Obama's management of the Ebola crisis was "incompetent."
In a comprehensive discussion at Vanderbilt University, Bush said that Obama's method of dealing with the crisis resulted in unfounded fears among the public.
"It looked very incompetent to begin with, and that fueled fears that may not be justified," Bush said. "And now you have states that are legitimately acting on their concerns, creating a lot more confusion than is necessary," he said, reports the Associated Press.
Emphasizing that Obama should have been more lucid and brief in his plan of action against Ebola, Bush contrasted the President's wavering approach in dealing with the disease to the way he handled the 2001 anthrax attacks, when he was the governor of Florida.
Bush said that at the time of the anthrax attack, the administration made it known to the people its plan of action and the citizens did not get panicky as officials gave positive assurance to them.
Turning to the topic of foreign policy, Bush said Obama did not have clear guiding principles in its policy. As a result of this, a "power vacuum" has ensued, and militant groups like Islamic state were able to capitalize on this.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the U.S. should not discourage health care workers from traveling to Ebola Stricken countries in West Africa.
"We don't want to discourage our health care workers from going to the front lines and dealing with this in an effective way," Obama said. "We have to make sure that we continue to provide the support of health workers who are going overseas to deal with the disease where it really has been raging," he added, reports the Huffington Post.
