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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
**He just said, "People are saying that if this had happened in a predominantly white area, the response would have been faster."**
The "predominantly white" areas around new orleans have people DYING in them, too. but you'll notice the lack of CAMERAS, so no one in the media seems to care about that!
Thanks, that's great news! And I've already forgotten who told me... ;-)
I think you're right; just watch Houston and the other evacuee cities; I think it will happen there, too.
Every where I turn people are talking about the welfare class being at fault for a majority of this mayhem-people know about the race riot in NO and no one I know of is amused right now.
People d/n realize the time it takes to assemble all the 'stuff' that went into NO, MS,AL. There was limited access into NO by road. The airport runways had to be thoroughly checked for damage. ATC controllers and equipment had to be brought in. The bridges to the east of the city were gone. Additionally,in MS the flooded roads and downed huge trees blocking roads added to the nightmare and slowed down relief efforts significantly. The list is too long.
A corrupt, undermanned police department, an out of touch with reality (for whatever reason-snort) mayor who is one sandwich short of a picnic and an incompetent, out of her league, governette's infamous words sometime over last weekend (paraphrasing) "if we all work together we will get through this and it will be a positive experience". One wonders what qualifies as negative experience in her thinking? She has had a limited exposure to real life.
Usually it is 72 hours before substantial help begins to arrive after a major disaster. The fact that the Coasties and the Navy were there early was a true Godsend. I could go on like this for paragraphs. No matter what either of us says a disaster relief situation does not come together in the time frame of a TV 1 hour episode. Again we are back to reality, a commodity in short supply with all those from the state of LA, so very sad.
Climbing down off my soapbox and hushing up on the ranting.
>>WWL just said that Pres. Bush is about to
do a walking tour of New Orleans...<<
I hope they meant fly-over. Dear God, not a walking tour????
Cannibalization of a society, more like.
Live feed.
The man talking just learned his bro and others were rescued from a roof of arlene and jeff davis, st johns bayou.
Barge pilots among these, they are needed to drive barges up river. Mass convoy of food, water, and weapons arriving in NOLA.
I'm very discouraged today.
Let's just say that if it had happened in a predominantly civilized area, the response would have been faster. Race doesn't play into it. The fact that the residents were shooting at the rescuers certainly does.
My gosh, these idiots just will not face the truth, even when it comes at them in bullet form.
Sounds like a bad idea. Why should he risk his life over people who hate him?
appoint governor Blanco to the post. let her dig out of the mess she created.
I can't take him on Hardball but in this case he wasn't talking over anyone. That's what I meant by a "good job."
Heck, if I switched the channel every time I disagreed with someone, I'd wear my remote out.
Do you have CNN's phone number? Time for me to ream them a new one.
They said walking, but hopefully they didn't know what they were talking about.
Wolfie Blitzer on CNN agrees with you---Bush too late..
But, I would say that since the hurricane happened on Monday, the flood and damage happened on Tuesday...today is Friday....so that leave 2 whole days,,,just TWO!
Now, considering this is a STATE and CITY issue as well, I don't think it is too much to ask that the city and state can do TWO days worth of work...while it takes TIME to get those trucks and personnel from all over America.
BTW, Elijah Cummings agree with Wolf (surprise?) and said that the Congressional Black Caucus is the "concsience" of the Congress, and that now that they have come out and TOLD President Bush that he wasn't doing good enough...that NOW things are getting done correctly. S
So the credit should go to the Congressional Black Caucus for what is happening re: all of the help there today.
I report, you decide!!!!
Why are the feds responsible when A) The locals pols are too dumb to order an evacuation and/or B) The local citizenry is too stupid to bug out on their own?
MSNBC says the schedule is delayed by about an hour and a half. They say the President will speak after doing an airborne tour of the damage in New Orleans.
It looked like Nagin went on Marine One with him (good move). I would bet that Bush let Nagin blow off some steam during the last hour and they'll have peace in the valley now.
Like it or not, Nagin's the Mayor of the major city that was devastated and he'll be an important player over the next few weeks (or months). The people of New Orleans can't have him going off the deep end again.
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