For Doug Brinkley to say some awful negative things...its pretty serious. Lets face it...if you rounded up half the governors and mayors in the US...they wouldn't have done much better than Nagin. You get voted into office as a popularity contest...not on leadershipp skills. Thats the sad part about this entire story. And the governor of LA....isn't much better.
The gov. of LA is, IMO, a whining idiot whose bad governance is becoming more apparent by the day. Same with Nagin.
Carolyn
The situation with the governor is much worse. In her case, the people had a choice between Blanco and Bobby Jindal. Jindal is an exceptionally bright, energetic, capable leader. The difference between the two was painfully obvious, yet the people in this state elected Blanco by a narrow margin. In Nagin's case, he was the better choice. That was it.
I agree fully, except it was common knowledge that NO would have a flood some day sooner or later