Let this picture be seared, seared into your memory.
Posted on 09/02/2005 7:43:23 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The leadership skills of New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin have been put to the ultimate test this week, a test some critics say he is failing as his storm-ravaged city descends into chaos, violence, looting and despair.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune's Web site has become a clearinghouse for residents of the Crescent City to communicate with their neighbors, and many are taking the opportunity to express frustration with their mayor. "Where are you?" one person asked on the Web site. "Be a man and take care of your people."
Another person said he liked Mr. Nagin but wondered, "Where is command central? Can we get some sort of plan, any plan, other than busing the refugees from dome to dome?"
Mr. Nagin, a former cable TV executive, was elected three years ago at the age of 45 after promising to reverse the city's reputation for corruption. Now, he finds himself saying things about his city that he never could have dreamed possible.
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They elected him. You get what you vote for.
sickening. just when you think the left can't make another new low.
I just heard this guy on the radio. What a d-bag. I mean seriously. Of course, he is better than the nxet guy who called on a general in our military to rebel and go down there to help.
The situation is only getting worse.
"It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much," he said.
Way to show some leadership. Moron.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I head him this morning too. I was so disgusted with this guy. He was crying about how it was Bush's fault cause we were in Iraq. What about his city? New Orleans was voted recently the most dangerous city in the U.S. And why was that? Because of his incompetance. He had time to get rid of the crime in the city and set up an emergency plan but NO he didn't - now he has a free for all there and people are dying and he's crying about everything.
Someone needs to post the photo of those school buses sitting in a parking lot, flooded up to their windows.
That's the result of the entitlement mentality. New Orleans is a prime example of why every state needs a concealed carry law.
A lot of those looters had gone a whole 6 hours or so without food. Its also real hard to eat a DVD player!
New Orleans Mayor No Giuliani -- NO KIDDING!!
Mayor C. Ray Nagin -- NIMROD
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Let this picture be seared, seared into your memory.
Bush has to
1]Put someone in charge to take over
2]Open all the military bases to receive needy
3]Obtain local transportation to nearby airports
4]Ground some commercial flights. Send those aircraft to airports to airlift
5]Local people provide transportation to bases and food.
6]Rehab New Orleans
Pronto - Act like this is a war to be won quickly or lost.
"Failing?!!" He is a whinny little girl wetting his pants!
And if the values and voting habits of his constituency are any guide he's hit upon a winning strategy. I predict he'll be re-elected in a landslide.
please with this stupid article.
two TOTALLY different situations.
the twin towers was a cake walk compared to this.
RIDICULOUS comparison.
Every single bus in that town should have been moving residents out of the region up to two hours prior to the storm. To have parked all these buses...is stupid. And upon delivering those poor souls out of the affected area...the bus drivers should have parked up in Baton Rouge and waited out the storm...to bring survivors out the next day. How simple would that have been? And what mayor could have done that? None that I see. Sad....and they elected this character...and they will stand by him. This town doesn't get alot of pity...they want your dollars and tourism...and simply shoveled money into a pit.
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