Actually, I've said it bluntly to peoples faces that the people that stayed behind have some blame in this. You're right no one is really saying it, but when I do not a one of them disagrees or has called me heartless so I would have to say you are correct. This is the elephant everyone in the room they won't admit to but the public is thinking it.
Not only that but people are tired of race baiting, so that isn't going over well.
Nor is a Governor crying, a Mayor cursing and an other Senator thretaning violence to the President. Perhaps if the Dems were not behaving so irrationally and didn't have a record of using any opportunty, however low, to slam this administration it would have effect. They screwed themselves politically from being able to use this due to their behavior the last five years.
Then folks note 9-11, they note MISS, Alabama and Texas, and they make the connection something isn't right in LA and from there connect the Gov and local officials.
You are exactly right. When someone starts an argument by saying, "Since it is obvious the sky is green..." you tend to dismiss the rest of his argument. Americans have eyes and ears. They heard the evacuation orders. They saw all the cars leaving New Orleans. Then the storm hit and they saw the looting start before anything started to flood. They've heard the reports of rescuers being shot at. And somehow they are supposed to believe this was a plot by the Feds to kill black people. Riiigiht. And by saying such things, the dems drag the rest of their silly arguements right into the mud. Which is where they belong.
I for one don't see any reason to blame them. I'm sure most of them lived in New Orleans all or most of their lives and have been through hurricanes before. They were obviously wrong to assume this wouldn't be tragically worse, but not necessarily stupid. Didn't Fats Domino go back to ride it out with his family? And some stayed to protect their property from the looters that they may have had expected from experience. My own heart is with that Floretta (is that her name?), who would not abandon her dog; I can't imagine that I would abandon my cat.
Agreed 100%. Your point about the incredible collapse of leadership among Louisiana local and state officials and their stunningly immature behavior in time of crisis is also another important point that the majority of American already have realized and they know that this also a big cause for the problems.