Nagin: God mad at America, but also at blacks

Nola.com ^ | 1/16/2006 | Associated Press

[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.

[truthluva]

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?

[quadrant]

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.

[Steveone]

I think what he really said was I have gone mad!

[Brilliant]

I wonder if the media will give this as much attention as it give the Pat Robertson tirades.

[manwiththehands]

"Surely God is mad at America ..."

No He isn't ... and don't call me "Shirley."

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[sgtbono2002]

Nagin and Pat Robertson and Ahminejahd(spelling) all think they can read Gods mind.

Crazy as Loons.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thought y'all might get a chuckle out of this...just to balance the scales a bit:

[Veggie Todd]

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.

[maica]

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

[deport]

your = you're

for what it's worth

[Mears]

Thanks,I needed that !

[mosquewatch.com]

Thanks for the typo error, back to the drawing board! :)

Jeff

[Sofa King]

If-there-was-any-doubt-left-that-Nagin-has-lost-it-ping

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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!

[festus]

The city of new orleans thought he was the best man for the job.

[festus]

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...........

[hosepipe]

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)..

[Mr. Mojo]

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."

[maica]

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.

[capecodderathome]

He must be anticipating a federal indictment(my wish), so he's laying the groundwork for an insanity plea.