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Nagin: God mad at America, but also at blacks
Nola.com ^
| 1/16/2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 01/16/2006 2:16:35 PM PST by Neville72
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin suggested that recent destruction from hurricanes Katrina, Rita and other natural disasters is a sign that "God is mad at America," and also mad at black communities for tearing themselves apart with violence and divisive politics.
"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin said as he and other city leaders commemorated Martin Luther King Day. "Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
Joking that he may appear to have "post-Katrina stress disorder," Nagin, who is black, talked of an imaginary conversation with the late civil rights leader. They "talked," he said, while he was thinking Monday about what to say at the ceremony outside City Hall to kick off a walking parade in King's honor.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: herewegoagain; katrina; nagin; neworleans; wrathofgod
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To: Neville72
Can an elected official mention...God? Oops...Wonder if the ACLU will be knockin on his door? Did God leave him a door to knock on?
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:08:13 PM PST
by
truthluva
("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
To: maica
God may indeed be mad at America, but I think His anger stems from our embrace of abortion and denigration of faith than from any ideas that may be concocted in the mind of Ray Nagin.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:12:00 PM PST
by
quadrant
To: Neville72
I think what he really said was I have gone mad!
43
posted on
01/16/2006 3:12:55 PM PST
by
Steveone
(Liberalism is a brain tumor!)
To: Neville72
I wonder if the media will give this as much attention as it give the Pat Robertson tirades.
To: Neville72
"Surely God is mad at America ..." No He isn't ... and don't call me "Shirley."
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:15:31 PM PST
by
manwiththehands
(Good news for America = bad news for democRats)
To: Neville72
Nagin and Pat Robertson and Ahminejahd(spelling) all think they can read Gods mind.
Crazy as Loons.
To: All
Thought y'all might get a chuckle out of this...just to balance the scales a bit:
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:16:42 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: RockinRight
He already tried blaming Republicans, and that didn't work, so he just moved up to God...
Well, He is the next(and last) step in the chain of command.
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:21:28 PM PST
by
Veggie Todd
(Were those magic grits?)
To: Tim Long
Who wants to bet this gets a shred of the amount of coverage everything Pat Robertson says gets?
Yeah! Right! Top of the hour news for 48 hours at least!!!!! /s
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:23:22 PM PST
by
maica
(We are fighting the War for the Free World and the media is not on our side.)
To: mosquewatch.com
your = you're
for what it's worth
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:28:34 PM PST
by
deport
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:34:03 PM PST
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen:caviar and cigarettes)
To: deport
Thanks for the typo error, back to the drawing board! :)
Jeff
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:38:02 PM PST
by
mosquewatch.com
("The enemy is anyone who will get you killed, no matter what side they are on.")
To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
If-there-was-any-doubt-left-that-Nagin-has-lost-it-ping
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posted on
01/16/2006 3:49:24 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Mears
As we say in Wisconsin, 'You're Lawrence Welk-um.'
I can 'splain it to you Lucy, if you don't know who Lawrence Welk is..."And A One, And A Two..."
But on the other hand, if you don't know what ''splain it to you Lucy' means, I'm afraid it's hopeless, LOL!
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posted on
01/16/2006 4:19:35 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Neville72
The city of new orleans thought he was the best man for the job.
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posted on
01/16/2006 6:38:41 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: Polybius
if you don't follow your own evacuation plan and therebey leave tens of thousands of people stranded in a storm surge zone......blame God.
Well blaming Bush didn't work...........
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posted on
01/16/2006 6:39:32 PM PST
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: Neville72
Translated from Nagin;
I have a dream, today.. A dream that little contractors and big contractors will play together with the federal government.. And all federal gov't contractors will be judged on the content of their bank account and not by the color of federal government money.. I have a dream today.. A dream that corrupt Louisiana politicians will appreciate all graft coming into their offices and be grateful to the people.. I have a dream today..
(and then he cried with his hands over his face)...
(peering through his fingers to see if anybody was laughing)..
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posted on
01/16/2006 6:49:34 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
To: maica
Who wants to bet this gets a shred of the amount of coverage everything Pat Robertson says gets? The Fox News updates (on the half hour) have reported Nagin's opinion that New Orleans will be an "African American city again," but they haven't mentioned a word about his "God is mad at America" pronouncement. ....nor have they used Nagin's own word for black -- "chocolate."
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posted on
01/16/2006 6:52:45 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
Very interesting how the left "interpret" quotes from some sources. James Taranto has a good item on that today.
Jim Lehrer "interpreted" the quotation of a governor of LA that he would not go to jail unless he was caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl. Lehrer said "compromising position" instead of "bed". "woman" instead of girl, and yet did not change "boy" to "man". PC supercedes honest quotation.
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posted on
01/16/2006 7:15:32 PM PST
by
maica
(We are fighting the War for the Free World and the media is not on our side.)
He must be anticipating a federal indictment(my wish), so he's laying the groundwork for an insanity plea.
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