Posted on 10/05/2007 9:42:16 PM PDT by chemicalman
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement, but his first sight of the devastated Lower 9th Ward inspired a momentary return to his socialist past.
"If things haven't changed by our next visit, we may have to announce a revolution," he said through a translator, as he walked the lifeless streets with well-wishers and staff members of Green Cross International, a non-governmental organization which he chairs.
"No matter the flooding and the hurricane, the red tape and bureaucracy survive," he said.
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No....New Orleans welcomes anyone to town.
Come on down and sip some refreshments and wink at the gals as they walk on by. Gorby will have a good ole time and probably pass out by midnight (at his age)...might even find himself down at the docks in the morning....wondering what the heck happened.
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