It sounds like we are pretty much on the same page...
"...and I could have organized an evacuation from NO. This seem deliberate."
I have thought the same thing at times, but you do have to factor in the sheer incompetence and stupidity of Blank-O and Nagin as well. Those two things probably had more to do with what happened than anything else.
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.
I don't think that this was her intention.
I believe that it was just that she and the mayor are totally incompetent and unable to make rational decisions.
Not exactly a student of history, are you. If you had said "natural disaster", you probably would've been correct. But you just had to go Geraldo on her.
Try reading The Grapes Of Wrath, or at least watch the movie.
I came to the same conclusion. Here is my post from another thread:
"Well, I watched this thing since the morning of the levee break. For nearly two days it was just dead air, nothing.
All I saw was news conferences and interviews, but no movement of anything physical. The other thing I saw seemed to be constant meetings behind the scenes but nothing ever getting done.
I would love to know who these people were. My sneaking suspicion is alot of those were lawyers, DNC politicians, party mucky mucks, and liberal political strategists. Possibly even liberal special interest groups like the ACLU. It felt to me that Blanco was a figurehead who was not leading, but being led by handlers behind the scenes.
And that's where my tin-foil hat gets clamped on tight. I hope, I really hope, that there wasn't a strategy to politicize this thing by dragging feet for a couple of days in order to create a crisis to blame Bush. It's the liberal MO
There are a number of whiffs and snippets here and there really have tainted this whole thing with a smell. The primary red flag for me is that they were in CYA mode from zero hour. Given what we know how they had dropped the ball on the levee system and other preps (almost certainly due to corruption), they were acting like they (were) laying down cover.
And on queue, the media took up the ball like someone faxed them some talking points. I've seen this pattern a hundred times. No solid proof, just disturbing patterns. Time will tell hopefully, but I'm not holding my breath."
Now I am seeing several stories about obstructed supplies. The smell grows ever more rank.
I hate to be a tin foil hatter but that all fits. It would explain some of the crazy things she has done. And she knows the DUpes at DU would help her blame Bush. On O'Rielly tonight they said the Guards have been muzzled about when she actually gave the order to go in. 2 days after the hurricane. And she refused Bushes help to evacuate them. Strange indeed.