Posted on 04/24/2008 11:14:50 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - John McCain toured still hurricane-damaged areas of New Orleans and declared that if the disaster had happened on his watch, he would have immediately landed his plane at the nearest Air Force base. The Republican presidential candidate is campaigning this week in what he calls forgotten areas of the country. He offered a pledge Thursday to New Orleans residents that their situation will not be forgotten and that such a botched disaster response will never happen again.
McCain was unsparing in his criticism of the Bush administration. He said Congress must share some of the blame, too.
Drawing a sharp contrast to President Bush, McCain said he would have landed his plane "at the nearest Air Force Base and come over personally."
And? Like that would have done what?
Michael Brown is coming out with a book saying that he wanted to use planes to airlift/evacuate the people of New Orleans but TSA was opposed to it.
such horse crap. The President warned the LA governor preemptively to make it a disaster area, and surveyed the area immediately after from the air - w/o getting in the way.
If he had landed, he would have been considered disrespectful for creating a photo op.
The White House’s lack of response to WMD argument and to Katrina baffle me to this day.
And if Bush would've done that, the Dimowits and media would have played up how much he was getting in the way and impeding relief efforts!!! Gaaaaa!
Pander pander bo-bander, banana fanna fo-fander, fee fie mo-mander:
Pander!
I watched Larry King last night because Laura and Jenna Bush were going to be on. Mrs. Bush said John McCain was her candidate. Then McCain blasts Bush just for votes?
Barksdale is the nearest AF base. Don’t know for sure, but I can assume that it did not fare well from the hurricane.
Of course, McCain did not mention that the nearest AF base may have been far removed from Louisiana due to the bad weather.
Yeah McCain? Well Duncan Hunter actually showed up and helped distribute food and water.
“...if the disaster had happened on his watch, he would have immediately landed his plane at the nearest Air Force base.”
And, why does Juan think that’ll help?
And do what? Sing "Jimmy Crack Corn and ol' Massa Gone Away?"
Dude... you're an idiot!
He said Congress must share some of the blame, too.
Just wondering, are you a congressman too McCain?
Put a pantsuit and a synthetic blonde wig on him and you’d have Hillary.
You really don’t get it.
McCain must seperate himself from Bush or he’ll be tagged as Bush Lite.
I’m sure that Bush fully understands the tactic, and probably endorses the idea.
I’m not a McCain fan, but it was a botched response. Was it Bush’s fault...no, it was local officials faults. However, do I have any doubt that McCain would land his helicopter right in the middle of a disaster, NO. He’s got the ego to think he could fix the situation, when he probably would just make things worse, but I think he thinks he could have helped.
He probably wanted to ride with Congressman Jefferson on emergency vehicles to get some of that cold cash.
“...McCain said he would have crashed his plane...”
He would have then proceeded to yell at the hurricane, which would have scared it and made it turn west and beat the hell out of Mexico.
Not a bad plan really.
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