The mayor needs to look in the mirror when assigning blame for this disaster.
Posted on 09/02/2005 9:51:11 AM PDT by Millee
Pimp my peoples!
The mayor needs to look in the mirror when assigning blame for this disaster.
Everything else is a sideshow.
Suggested Jackson ought to have gotten on is knees and thanked all the hardworking people who donated millions of dollars for relief.
That Jackson ought to have demanded those shooting at rescuers STOP IMMEDIATELY.
I let the aide know just how outraged I was by racism talk.
This is becoming pathetic.
In America today there is a lot of money to be made race baiting.
Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 10:12 a.m. EDT
Mayor Ray Nagin Curses Gov. Blanco, Pres. Bush
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/2/101419.shtml
Before launching into his radio tirade, Nagin explained: "You know, I'm not one of those drug addicts. I am thinking very clearly."
Rep. Peter King: Gangs Blocking Relief Efforts
Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 11:15 a.m. EDT
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/2/111601.shtml
MSNBC's Olbermann Rationalizes Looting,
"What Would You Do?"
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050901.asp#1
And what they decidedly leave out is this;
The NO Mayor is Black...and waited until Saturday.. AFTER President Bush urged them to...to evacuate the city. The locals KNOW the city and had info from National Weather Center on FRIDAY that they were going to be hit hard.
He said there was a plan in place yet he either didn't follow it or it was inadequate to the extreme. My guess is, he didn't follow it since it called for THREE days (with an infastructure IN place) to evacuate everyone. So they are blaming FEMA for not doing enough when communication and roads are non-existant.
The LA governor also did not call up enough National Guard troops, though she had MANY more, to help evacuate BEFORE the storm. Or at LEAST she should have called them ALL up right after the storm hit. That way they would have been in NO when the levees broke.
Believe me, there's plenty of "blame" to go around....and it's not just White REpublicans that are at fault. The fact that they ignore the fact that people of NO looting are shooting at rescuers shows their true colors too.
"I called Jackson's congressional office and let the man have it......BIG TIME!"
Thank you thank you thank you!
At least W has intelligence, Mr. Rangel
Yes, the danger to the levees was clear. Ragin put everyone into the Superdome. Blanco did nothing.
W declared a state of emergency BEFORE the hurricane hit.
But it's Bush's fault.
Was this Jr. or Sr.?????
My tagline says it all.
Good for you!
I did not see it, I heard some of it on the radio while I was in the car.
My anger has barely subsided.
That would be ideal and is the way most of us play... unfortunately the hucksters and shills started the blame game and unless it is answered and answered strongly they will make their accusations true in the minds of the majority as they hear the same story over and over...
An earlier post lamented that regular people were already picking up and using the hyperbole of the left that we are spending money in Iraq that we should be spending in Louisana... not a clue of how the government works but a good bumper sticker
The problems here are strictly local in nature. The powers that be in Louisiana and the city of New Orleans have a lot to answer for in their pathetic handling of this event. Here is where the problems lie.
President Bush, racism, the media, the Congressional Black Caucus and Jesse Jackson are nothing more than scenery, and they are all irrelevant to the actual point.
This "argument" has gone too far, and can only portend even more trouble later. Much more trouble. And all of this is highly unnecessary.
Well put.
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