Mayor Nagin is out there showing piss poor leadership by blaming the government instead of growing a pair of stones and lead his city like Rudy did during 9/11. I am a black person and I recognize good leadership arises during time of crises. There is nothing racist about that. NOLA is predominately black and it's leadership is unsat PERIOD. You have black female police officers looting with the criminals instead of trying to stop them. That is the face of New Orleans law enforcement an obese black woman in Walmart with a shopping cart stealing. I mean to rant because I am sick and tired of the same cries of racism when there is none. Those people are foolish and ignorant. It was the Mayor decision to open up the Super-dome he didn't consider that major storm always knock out power so you have all those people in a hot smelly enclosed structure that was really brilliant.
"I am truly sick and tired of ignorant black people."
I'm sick and tired of liberals....I don't care what color they may be.
"You know why these people are in New Orleans because they choose to stay there."
I agree. They had well advanced warning about this hurricane and I saw a photo of at least a hundred school buses now part way submerged under water that could have been used to ship these folks out. The local government is going to owe the people of New Orleans an explanation about that in the near future.
"The behavior of these gutter urchins are unconscionable."
Ouch, that one hurt. I wouldn't describe the collective people of New Orleans as "gutter urchins". I saw a man from New Orleans break down and cry yesterday. I saw another man who was ashamed at the behavior of some from within his community who chose to loot and shoot at those trying to help. At any rate, we should now be focusing on helping the people. Everything else will have to wait.
YES. The issue here is lack of leadership by the NO mayor and LA gov. We should hold *all* elected leaders to high standards of office, and not excuse them because of their race or gender.
I'd bet that few Americans think this would be so much of a disaster if Rudy (or someone like him) had been mayor of NO.
Our system is designed to have the Fed'l agencies respond to local leaders, not to have the Fed'l agencies take over local concerns. That's a problem when the local leaders are so inadequate.
I'll remember that when I vote for our next mayor, County Commissioner, and Governor. I wish everyone would.
Indeed the Mayor is the last one that should be blaming Bush. Maybe this is the usual leftist strategy of blame shifting? I am sure many of these people are stuck because they didn't heed the warnings.