Posted on 09/07/2005 8:08:10 PM PDT by mhking
>>I know, but I'm reaching -- on purpose -- to see if I'm tilting at windmills here, or if there was perhaps something more nefarious going on.
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I don't believe it was genocide, or at least I have no evidence that it was...but this woman is obviously trying to hide something.
This is probably the stupiest comment I've even seen at Free Republic. Democrat 101 - you need poor working class voters to be elected and you don't achieve this by killing them. Sheesh.
That's what I want to know.
Seems to me the answer is one of 2 things neither of which is very flattering: 1) gross incompetence 2)political gamesmanship to try and make Bush look bad. (Or some combination of the two)
The MSM sees this suffering as just another opportunity to pummel Bush. To hell with the facts, lets get that Zombie Nancy Pelosi front and center and call the President names, Then get Howard Dean to say that race influenced the response.
None of this shit is refuted and not even FOX News is doing enough to shoot this garbage down
I wonder how many shelters she opened up before Katrina made landfall, shelters that Nagin could have theoretically sent his evacuees to rather than to the Superdome and Convention Center. I rather suspect that it was VERY few.
Certainly seems like one of the possibilities.....
I saw her daughters 3 of them in Houston on Monday with crocodile tears...they looked like low lifes to me without any class. You can have lots of money but when your from a seedy family...it will always show through.
I've noticed he started to
But this stunt of her's this afternoon
He will not stand by and take a hit for her on this
I agree that she is beyond incompetent & a buffoon.
But if the levee's hadn't been breached, they would have left.......no?
I don't get it at all. Refusing the Red Cross entry is beyond belief.
I have always questioned that a direct hit from Katrina on NOLA probably would have torn the Superdome apart.
If you live in a Blue State, I suggest planning a move.
I have no respect for either of them. When this is over, they shpould both be recalled and removed from office
It's a bit of a stretch if you think about it rationally (which is how most conservatives would consider it). However, this piece is very good at turning some of the liberals' arguments back around on them.
Some liberals are claiming that President Bush intentionally neglected to aid the city of New Orleans in a timely manner out of racism. A caller to Rush Limbaugh yesterday afternoon actually stated that he thought the President wanted as many black people to die as possible. So let's turn this around and consider the following:
Governor Blanco would not allow the Red Cross to provide the basic necessities of life to evacuees inside the Superdome. And based on the simple fact that New Orleans is populated mostly by black Americans, and that we hear so much about the people who couldn't leave NO being poor and mostly black, it's pretty safe to assume that the majority of evacuees in the Superdome were black. Now, using the logic that has been applied in arguments against the President by folks such as Howard Dean, one could easily say that Blanco was trying to kill the poor black residents of New Orleans. Genocide, indeed.
It sounds kooky, yes. But in stretching, you also illustrate how far the Democrats are reaching for political fodder.
So much for the Democrats being the benefactors of minorities, huh?
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?
Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard* and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.
The STATE Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.
I posted on another thread (with tin foil hat on) that maybe they were afraid if these really poor people were bussed out of the city, they might never come back - and for whatever reasons - political and/or financial they didn't want to do this.
A Cat 5 hurricane is headed your way and you live in a bowl shaped city below sea level. You choose NOT to implement your evacuation plan. When else would you ever use it if not for that time? Something is going on. I just don't know what.
Democrats, see the poor just like the Communists did, as a tool used to gain power, and then to be discarded once they get that power.
Major Garrett said the Red Cross was told they didn't want to attract more people to the stadium.
You need to go to Fox and watch the interview. It'll knock your socks off.
I see you aren't familiar with the very large deceased constituency, who somehow end up voting Democrat every election.
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