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Bush: Katrina recovery will take time (CNN omits Rockey plea for Four more years)
Cnn.com ^ | Wednesday, August 23, 2006; Posted: 11:51 a.m. EDT (15:51 GMT)

Posted on 08/23/2006 9:43:14 AM PDT by Perdogg

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday cautioned against placing too much importance on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's Gulf Coast strike, saying it will take a long, sustained effort to rebuild the area.

"It's a time to remember that people suffered and it's a time to recommit ourselves to helping them," Bush said. "But I also want people to remember that a one-year anniversary is just that, because it's going to require a long time to help these people rebuild."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: anniversary; bush43; katrina; vaccarella

1 posted on 08/23/2006 9:43:17 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

It wasn't just Katrina that turned NOLA into a craphole. It was well on its way before August 19, 2005. Even throwing billions of dollars at that cesspool will not make it nice.....just barely liveable as before.


2 posted on 08/23/2006 9:45:13 AM PDT by shankbear
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To: shankbear

Katrina = Nature's Urban Renewal


3 posted on 08/23/2006 9:47:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: shankbear

I lived in NOLA from 1972-1976. It was a crime ridden cesspool then. Fun city, but as corrupt as you can get.


4 posted on 08/23/2006 9:47:18 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: dfwgator

...the lancing of a boil.


5 posted on 08/23/2006 9:48:49 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: Perdogg

I still can't believe how the MSM/Dems successfully steered a natural disaster like this, along with a slow local response, around a Demhead Mayor and Gubner, and right into the lap of GW.


6 posted on 08/23/2006 9:58:09 AM PDT by crashthe24
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To: crashthe24

Probably because the stuttering, stammering Bush responses were wholly inadequate to pinning the tail on the Donkey.


7 posted on 08/23/2006 10:01:00 AM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: Perdogg

From http://www.whitehouse.gov/:

President George W. Bush smiles as he stands with Rockey Vaccarella during a statement to the media Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006, on the White House lawn. Vaccarella, who lost his home in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and who drove to Washington D.C. to speak directly to the President, told reporters, "I just don't want the government and President Bush to forget about us," adding, "If we had this President for another four years, I think we'd be great."


8 posted on 08/23/2006 10:01:07 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: Perdogg

Rockey got to meet the President without having to camp out for months on end and sucking up to je$$e, hugo or medea.

Psssst... Cindy.... Jealous?


9 posted on 08/23/2006 10:03:46 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (cair = hamas = iran = EVIL)
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To: rwa265

GWB stated: "I am tired of these motherforkin hurricanes in the motherforkin Gulf".


10 posted on 08/23/2006 10:05:19 AM PDT by shankbear
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To: shankbear

Yes, New Orleans was uniquely disfunctional well before Katrina. Great restaurants though!!


11 posted on 08/23/2006 10:44:11 AM PDT by fschmieg
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To: Perdogg

LOL...surprise...WABC radio news forgot the comment about FOUR MORE YEARS......too! LOL.....nice that Rush played it on his show. REaches more people than CNN and ABC combined.


12 posted on 08/23/2006 10:50:44 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: crashthe24
Not surprising considering that for the last 40 years the MSM/Dems have successfully labeled Repubs as racists, bigots, homophobes, wanting to starve old people and kill children, pollute the air, poison the water, ect.....

And Clinton's "war room" WAS THE ENTIRE MSM AND HOLLYWOOD.
13 posted on 08/23/2006 10:53:48 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: roses of sharon

"Not surprising considering that for the last 40 years the MSM/Dems have successfully labeled Repubs as racists, bigots, homophobes, wanting to starve old people and kill children, pollute the air, poison the water, ect....."

And for most of those 40 years, the Republicans by in large in Congress and Presidency (save Reagan and a few Months of Bush II) have curled up into the fetal postion and taken everything thrown at them by the Rats and the Drive By Media without fighting back.


14 posted on 08/23/2006 10:56:32 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: The South Texan
It is not in their nature to do what it takes, a certain ruthlessness.

Republicans/Conservatives elected over the years, especially the class of 94 were full of excitement and ideas, and they were creamed by the MSM, and lost their elections 2 years later. Most were normal guys from their local communities, businessmen, ect.

No way can we find Conservative and Republicans who are all ruthless.

The MSM/Dems has been in charge of this country for decades, they run all major news media, our policies, our reps, our culture, our education, our judiciary, all gov bureaucracies, ect.
15 posted on 08/23/2006 11:09:29 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: bigfootbob
I lived in NOLA from 1972-1976. It was a crime ridden cesspool then. Fun city, but as corrupt as you can get.

That was the impression I got when I visited there for work.

I was there less than a week, so I only got to see a small portion of the city, mostly around Bourbon and Canal Streets.

The area had a rich and intriguing history.

It had some of the best food I've had the pleasure of consuming.

It had a lively nightlife that seemed to go from fun, to more adult oriented "fun", to downright disturbing very quickly, and the disturbing seemed to bleed over into the fun quite easily and often.

The corruption and lack of moral direction was obvious and pervasive.

However, the food was REALLY good.

16 posted on 08/23/2006 1:22:31 PM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: untrained skeptic
You figured it out, except everyone paid graft to the beat cop on up. Fun city, though.

Especially, Mardi Gras. Coming from a small midwestern city, I was in culture shock for 6 months afterwards. Fun city, though.

When I turned 21, I started drinking DIXIE beer with breakfast and by 6:00 PM, I was out like a light, woke up at midnight and started all over again, oh my poor liver. Never did that before or after. Fun city, though.

It really had a bad element down in the Quarter. I had never met a professional pick-pocket before or after, I did there. The guy worked in the Royal Sonesta Hotel and supplemented his income by preying on drunken tourists. Tourists feed the beast, probably FEMA allocation is feeding the skids.
17 posted on 08/23/2006 2:10:53 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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