Comments on: POLL: TWICE AS MANY BLAME BLANC-O-NAGIN THAN BUSH

By: steve tate

steve tate — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:53:08 +0000

“….and the Lord sent a great flood…” I started thinking about this at 2 am. Five or six years ago I took my son on a cruise, and one of our stops was New Orleans. I took him on a bus tour to show him some history of America, and as the bus took us here and there in the Parrish, my son ask, “Daddy, what country is this?” I was stunned at first until I looked at the world from the eyes of a child.He couldn’t tell the difference between one third world country and another, for that is what NO had become, a low rent, trashed, infrastucture-wrecked bayou, like so many we had seen that week in the Caribbean. And the residents of this watery slum were just like the people we had seen on islands in the stream, people waiting for someone to make their lives better. I started thinking about Katrina in biblical terms when I heard that the death toll would be much lower than previously feared. Perhaps the Lord decided to repeat his flood schtick, and start over with a clean slate.

By: Ronin

Ronin — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:43:22 +0000

I am one of those who feel that partician politics got in the way on both sides of the fence and unfortuantly will continue to do so until we have a strong leader weather it be on the local or federal level.

By: From the Swamp

From the Swamp — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:08:31 +0000

Melanie,

I think Mississippi is being ignored because the leftist-MSM thinks that New Orleans will damage Bush more than does Missisippi where they have competent governments.

But with competent governments the states of MS and AL are doing OK, or as best can be expected in this natural disaster.

The left, that’s another matter — It looks like in the end Bush Derangement Syndrome is now a proven killer.

By: NIF

NIF — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:25:55 +0000

Schwing!

Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … Another Friday, already in progress

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:29:45 +0000

Trying to think ahead a bit here… If some subsequent disaster hits a white, middle-class area, can we do well with the relief efforts without being open to charges of disparity or racism when it comes to federal emergency management?

By: Ofc. Krupke

Ofc. Krupke — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:13:38 +0000

The point Melanie brings up about Mississippi illustrates something that has particularly frustrated me about all the Katrina coverage:

This is about more than New Orleans. The area of destruction covers Mississippi and parts of Alabama, too. People who complain about the federal response (and there is PLENTY to complain about, legitimately) need to remember that FEMA and the feds are responsible for the ENTIRE area of Katrina damage, which makes the ball-dropping by the locals even more infuriating.

By: Nancy Coshatt

Nancy Coshatt — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:51:14 +0000

It can’t be denied the polls show most blame the locals — you leftist take from that what you want.
For God’s sake, wake up, sure there were some screw ups but the Feds seem to be doing everything humanly possible and I think this is another thing that is gonna blow up in the lefts face.
Also, someone needs to tell Paul, the so called Repub from Tx, to sit down and shut up or just go ahead and cross the f&#king aisle cause we are sick of this speeches on c-spann, caught him yesterday, it was disgusting, bashing Bush for Iraq and our so called regime change, I’m so sick of that term I could hurl.

By: SAHMmy

SAHMmy — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:56:50 +0000

Melanie, WHAT a$$-dragging? And simply braying “they took too long” isn’t good enough. You really need to be specific if anyone should take you seriously about what you claim the FEDS did not do.

What about the fact that since Katrina blew through Louisiana, specifically New Orleans, the Red Cross (who had PRE-POSITIONED huge trucks full of supplies earmarked for the people at both the SuperDome and the Convention Center immediately after the storm) has been denied access to the disaster area in Louisiana by the LA Homeland Security Department? This is a fact that is validated on the Red Cross website.

IF the state of Louisiana (Blanco) refused to let the Red Cross do it’s job and bring the food, water and medicines to those in the SuperDome and Convention Center, HOW is it the fault of the FEDS again?

Looking back, I find it in-EFFING-credible that aid was rendered as quickly and as broadly as it was considering the chronic obstacles the government of Louisiana placed in their path.

It WAS a ClusterFoock of unbelievable dimensions and the ClusterFoock was authored SOLEY by the state and local government. And if you have proof to the contrary you’d better put it up or

SHUT THE FOOCK UP YOU MOONBAT!

By: Melanie Haddon

Melanie Haddon — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:18:46 +0000

Folks are still going without in Mississippi….

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/_wea_katrina_squalor;_ylt=AmFyd28QwGA_2NH9m.O3O1es0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ–

Why do you ignore this?

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:41:42 +0000

Don’t you both think it a little unedifying to be celebrating the demise of the President while dancing on the graves of black people?

What are you? Racists?