Funny how they lauded Guiliani and Pataki as heros but.....

[LynneSin]

They try to find every way to slame Blanco and Nagin.

Maybe if Blanco & Nagin were republicans this would have been a different story! Maybe if they were republicans AID would have gotten there quicker.

Just saying!

[mzteris]

1. maybe if they'd've been

white males.......

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Are you implying that BushCo would let politics interfere with aid to

people in trouble???? Like if the governor of Louisiana was *'s brother, the aid would have been there the day BEFORE Katrina hit????? Ya think??
:sarcasm:

The whole family sucks.

[LynneSin]

3. Or if Katrina came BEFORE the 2004 elections Bush would have been there...

handing out bottles of water to everyone!

[LunaSea]

4. Lucky for them, FEMA was already in town Sept 11 2001

[Catrina]

5. Especially since neither one of them

did anything at all to make that city safe and it was others who took over the city on that day!! The 'great mayor' myth must be debunked. The 9/11 families want this man investigated for his negligence and nearly had apoplexy during his testimony at the Whitewash known as the 9/11 Commission.

By contrast Mayor Nagin has been there working for his people, not just posing for television, which is about all Giuliani is good for, other than profiting from tragedies.

And don't even think of suggesting that he go to NO. People forget his record regarding the brutal treatment of minorities in NYC. Remember his defense of the police shootings and torture of innocent black citizens ~ he is not and never was a hero of any kind. That was the result of the multi-million dollar PR campaign that went on after 9/11. The man was mostly dazed that day ~

[kath]

7. Yeah, the "great mayor" and "great pResident" myths surrounding 9/11 are

total BS. Both men were as worthless then as they always were and are. Jimmy Breslin goes into this (among other things) in his AWESOME column in Newsday:

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-d4411450sep04,0,978593,print.column?coll=ny-rightrail-columnist

While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies
Jimmy Breslin

September 4, 2005

This is a review of the performance of George W. Bush in tight times in this nation. It might explain the single solitary most catastrophic collapse of American government in all of our times. Mark ye well. This was the week when we turned a major American city into Haiti, and racism put its hand out and started to choke a nation, and it may not let go.

<snip>

Bush's style is to be nowhere if things that carry a bit of fear happen. During Vietnam, he kept all dental appointments. For the World Trade Center attack, he first froze in a classroom in Florida. Then he flew off in his plane for long hours. Three days later, he got to New York where a flunky placed a retired firefighter, Bob Beckwith from Long Island, alongside him atop a truck. Then Bush called out a football dressing room speech over a bullhorn.

<snip>

This racism, which is at the bottom of everything in America, makes it only natural for Bush and his people to talk about turning to Rudolph Giuliani to save New Orleans as he supposedly saved New York after the World Trade Center attack. In New York, Giuliani did nothing but go on television. That's all he did and all he ever can do. Beautiful! There are television cameras in New Orleans. And just like Bush, Giuliani doesn't want many blacks near him. If more than two blacks entered City Hall, he called for snipers. Giuliani doesn't even have a show black like Condoleezza Rice, who bought shoes in Ferragamo in Manhattan this week.

Bush got found out this week and he needs his own rescue. Assure Giuliani that he could run for president if he does the job. As New York found, he can do nothing good about anything. That doesn't matter. Without somebody in front, Bush stands there, uncovered, without an American flag draped around him, as the most incompetent president we've ever had.

**********************

(I've ALWAYS been a 10-percenter. This myth that Chimpyshit was a masterful leader in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks is a sick, disgusting joke. Everytime the media spews it forth, and they do so endlessly, I want to barf. :puke: )

[LunaSea]

6. Remind me how many were evacuated from the city to parts north?