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."
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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.
Katrina = Nature's Urban Renewal
I lived in NOLA from 1972-1976. It was a crime ridden cesspool then. Fun city, but as corrupt as you can get.
...the lancing of a boil.
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.
Probably because the stuttering, stammering Bush responses were wholly inadequate to pinning the tail on the Donkey.
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."
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?
GWB stated: "I am tired of these motherforkin hurricanes in the motherforkin Gulf".
Yes, New Orleans was uniquely disfunctional well before Katrina. Great restaurants though!!
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.
"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.
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.
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