Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, accused President Barack Obama in a Friday appearance on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” of putting his own campaign ahead of handling the fallout from Superstorm Sandy.

“If I were the president of the United States, I sure wouldn’t be flitting around the Midwest and the West,” Giuliani said. “My job would be making sure this thing was followed through to the very end. Maybe the first couple of days he was keeping his eye on the ball, but we got gas lines now that are a mile long. We got bodies still being discovered, and we got a president who is playing campaigner in chief.”

His comments on CNN came the same evening that Giuliani rallied thousands at an Ohio rally for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, where he called for the president’s resignation on the grounds of mishandling the economy. He blasted Obama as the “worst president for our economy in our lifetime” and said that if Obama “was paying attention, we wouldn’t be going through all this investigation of what’s being covered up about Libya.”

“What the heck is he doing, flying all over the country and not keeping his attention on what’s going on there, making sure people don’t have to wait until November 11th or November 12th for the power to go back on?” he asked on CNN. “I understand he’s still running for re-election, but his first responsibility is as commander-in-chief, and I think he’s taken his eye off the ball at least for the last couple days. Maybe the first couple days he kept concentration on it. But I feel pretty darned offended seeing my president floating around campaigning while people are suffering the way people in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere are suffering.”

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