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Actually a pretty damning article, suprisingly

Sounded like a lot of useless fluff to me.

The governor is a politician. Of course she has staff members who's job is to make sure she dresses to make the right impression.

To be honest making the right impression is part of leadership in a disaster where you're getting 24 hour news coverage.

The people need to get the impression that their leaders are competent and in charge.

I don't have a problem with all the emails about wardrobe and how to make the right impression.

My problem is that she didn't do her job competently.

She was not prepared to lead her state through such an emergency even though the state was particularly susceptible to such disasters, had several close calls in recent times, and she had several days of warning as well.

The media is always attacking on form, not function.

They criticize how people look and the impression they give others.

Then they cirticize them for trying to make the right impression.

However, they rarely look at the real failures.

The real story is she was fighting federalizing the national guard, and plainly did so for CYA political reasons. She directly impeded the federal effort and the emails are clear they were looking for ways to sell that politically. She and the national democrats like Mike McCurry who were advising her are MURDERERS. They let their own constituents die to play games with the Bush administration.

And by the way, last I heard she is withholding her emails which she sends on Blackberries belonging to her husband and a trooper. She deliberately doesn't have one of her own and says her husband's is "private." Subpoena them all! Blanco lied people died.

However, they (media) rarely look at the real failures.

They sure took a good close look at Michael Brown and his performance and they were smiling all the way to the presses. Michael Brown made some mistakes, but so did EVERYONE associated with this disaster. Mistakes were inevitable. Only Katrina could come out a winner. It burns me up the way he was raked through the coals for FEMA's part in the recovery effort. Fair is fair, do the same thing to Blanco and Nagin.

(Note to self: it will never happen)