Posted on 09/06/2005 8:20:48 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1377394
I read this article; it is absolutely sickening when these politicians use the death of a family memmber to their advantage. Remember John Edwards constantly reminding us about the death of his son?
We all have lost loved ones and have emotional pain; some definitely worse then others. To discuss it for political advantage is sickening.
Can you link to this?
I'd like to blame it on somebody, but that somebody is ME....and I really wish I hadn't left the thing 180 miles from where I'm sitting now. Oh well... :-)
Thank you for taking responsibility for your own actions.
We would all be better off and more lives would have been saved if others did that.
Governor, Mayor, Aaron Brussard(parish prez of Jefferson)you should take notes.
Cheney is going to kick some dem butt.
I want to know if there is a recall petition started yet because I want to sign and get the ball rolling. Or would that get the LT. Gov in as the gov? We don't need another Landrieu to make matters worse.
Presumably, that should be advocating. But if he actually said that, that's quite a Freudian slip...
The answer is: Yellow dog Democrats.
she was on ABC this am with her her clinton hiree and couldn't answer any of the people questions. She looks like she didn't want to be there. No leadship at all.
The only coherent words I heard her say was that the NHC guy called her Saturday night. She said she went to NO and begged people to get out. The rest was about like listening to Jesse Jackson... a lot a syllables but no words.
I'd like to see Cheney tell off Nagin. If Rudy's town was going under, bet Rudy would have acted immediately then worried about the gov and federal gov . This guy never bothered to do crap.
Well, about 14,000 other FReepers have already said this, but I'll say it as well: You could have bused them out of town.
"School bus".
That's all.
...& *watch* the "rage". :o)
Don't forget Gore and his dead sister....or Bush 1 and his dead daughter.Every politician uses this to their advantage.Unless they've killed someone like Teddy the swimmer.
Good catch!
It was really hard to watch that guy because:
a) He was reading a DNC script ... really pathetic.
b) He was complaining that his friend's mother wasn't rescued. He told of how he kept calling people to ask when somebody would come and all I could think was that if he / they knew where she was WHY DIDN'T THEY GO RESCUE HER? He's supposedly some big-shot DemoncRAT leadership guy in New Orleans and he couldn't do anything himself. Implicit in what he was saying / weeping, he and his cohorts were totally paralyzed & cowards in the face of such tragedy.
NAGIN: The president looked at me. I think he was a little surprised. He said, "No, you guys stay here. We're going to another section of the plane, and we're going to make a decision."
He called me in that office after that. And he said, "Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor." I said -- and I don't remember exactly what. There were two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.
S. O'BRIEN: You're telling me the president told you the governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision?
NAGIN: Yes.
S. O'BRIEN: Regarding what? Bringing troops in? NAGIN: Whatever they had discussed. As far as what the -- I was abdicating a clear chain of command, so that we could get resources flowing in the right places.
S. O'BRIEN: And the governor said no.
NAGIN: She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out. It didn't happen, and more people died.
Actually, these aren't the folks we're helping. I'm helping the displaced, injured, and sick because it's the right thing to do. I'm not going to let some indecisive, CYA female governor and her inarticulate mayor change me from what I know is the right thing to do.
Maybe she didn't.
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