Obama: New Orleans will be better than ever ("Obama defends New Orleans effort")

[underpants]

Source: MSNBC

Headline on MSN.com is "Obama defends New Orleans effort"


But some residents criticize the length of the president's hours-long visit (this subtitle is not addresses again in the entire article)

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama defended himself Thursday against critics in New Orleans and across the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast who feel recovery help has not come soon enough from his administration.

Making his first stop as president in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina over four years ago, Obama appeared at a town hall gathering to hear residents' concerns in person. One man asked why federal damage reimbursements are coming to locals so slowly and in amounts far less than needed.

"I expected as much from the Bush administration, but why are we still being nickeled and dimed in our recovery," the man asked Obama.

The president also claimed progress since he has been president, citing reconstruction projects that have moved forward after stalling due to disagreements over whether the state or federal government would foot the bill. And his administration has sent more than $1.4 billion in additional federal aid toward repairing and rebuilding Louisiana.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33322864/ns/politics-white_house

---

[SoxFan]

1. Bush dicked up the recovery effort for 3+ years, but AP badmouths Obama AGAIN

I'm really sick and tired of AP's act. Win the Nobel Peace Prize? Whine about it being premature. Visiting the campus of a university that has been instrumental in rebuilding the NOLA community? Badmouth him for not staying longer.

Let's remember, the same people who are trashing the President, like Diaper Dave Vitter, are the same ones who sat on their hands while Bush, Brownie, Chertoff, etc, allowed things to fall apart in the first place.

[underpants]

2. A comprehensive review? A timeline from the MSM?

No we get..... BALLOON BOY!!! all afternoon from what I could tell

[SoxFan]

3. Jayzus, I know

I half expected an animated Ed Asner to show up with the kid by the end of the episode

[underpants]

6. MSM has followed a balloon trail before

[No Elephants]

5. AP and UPI pimp for Rehugs. Too bad, bc they provide so much of our news these days.

[No Elephants]

4. Dummya: "These people just don't understtand--the Gulf Coast will be better than ever." I did

not believe him for a second. I also thought it was an incredibly insensitive thing to say within days of Katrina.

But, it is the right thing to say now and I do believe Obama will do more than Dummya.

Republicans were thrilled to break up the Democratic voting city of NOLA.