The final scenes are playing out now; predictable, classless, and obnoxious as ever. C-Span had the NAACP leaders on. Arms folded, angry faces abound, heads tilted back, with the leader attempting to read from a script, featuring four misprounced and made up words per sentence. (to be sure he has an extensive criminal record and the obligatory 4 children with 4 different women). The theme of course is screaming 'bout white racism toward our peeples". I would have used a split screen showing the siege of predatory black thieves, murderers and rapists on the other side. The last phase to come in this cycle will be the 2008 election battlecry, "New Orlins, nevva fahget."
I don't know why all those leaders didn't go to New Orleans before the storm and help them fill up gallon jugs of water in the superdome. They had running water until halfway through the storm. All they needed were empty containers.
We have enough empty containers around our house to keep our family in water for about a week -- and that's just so we can always have water around in the car.
Disaster prep happens before the disaster. Does anybody remember hearing the Mayor of New Orleans on, say, FRIDAY OF LAST WEEK, screaming that he wasn't prepared if the hurricane hit and he needed the feds to be ready if anything went wrong?
No, he wasn't even telling his people to evacuate. He got his own family out OK though. If he had started on Thursday telling people to store water for emergencies, and on saturday to evacuate, and had used city buses to take poor people out somewhere.
Except that, and here I'm not sure they were wrong, the convention center and the stadium were probably the safest places they had to take thousands of people to ride out the storm.
But the should have moved the buses there to take people out after the storm ended. If they had had buses parked in the parking garage, they could have driven them up to the main road before the tuesday flooding, and used them starting tuesday to ferry people to outlying areas.
Oh well, hindsight is 20/20. But if the mayor of the city can't think of this stuff, why is the President supposed to?