The President Meets With New Orleans Katrina Survivors ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

He met with actual displaced New Orleans citizens, not just FEMA workers and military!





Former President Bill Clinton, center, prays with displaced New Orleans residents Steve Eskamire, right, and Tina Owney, left, during a meeting at a Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Clinton held a discussion with people displaced by hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Former President Bill Clinton, left, puts his hand on New Orleans native Steve Eskamire during a discussion at a Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Clinton held a discussion with people displaced by hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Former President Bill Clinton, left, visits with Ashley Smith, center, and her daughter Lahaya Smith, of New Orleans, at a Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Clinton held a discussion with people displaced by hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/LM Otero, POOL)

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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton (L) addresses survivors of Hurricane Katrina at Laundry High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 4, 2005. REUTERS/ Charles W. Luzier

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A U.S. flag hangs over the floor of the Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, La. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005. Katrina refugees living at the shelter voiced complaints about conditions at the shelter when they met with Former President Clinton Tuesday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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[3days]

1. I miss Bill

as my President.
That is all

[AwakeAtLast]

13. I said the very same thing as I looked at those pics

Great minds think alike! :hi:

[Carla in Ca]

23. So many of us miss him

I posted this earlier today.

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2135131>

[BlueEyedSon]

32. DItto, having a real president was cool!

[speedoo]

2. Good to see a REAL President visit REAL people in need.

Not a bunch of pre-screened actors.

[Tim4319]

3. He is still my president too!

The best president of my lifetime by far!

[MarianJack]

6. I Don't Know How Old You Are, Tim4319,...

...but I'm 50 and I wholeheartedly agree!

[Lugnut]

9. I'm 60 and

I agree with you both. Bill was not perfect but I always believed that he truly cared about the Have-Nots.

[kitten29]

10. totally agree with you

:applause:

[MarianJack]

14. I Believe That, For All Of His Imperfections,...

...He genuinely LOVES the people he governed, as well as the IDEA of what America can become.

My personal goal is to someday meet him and thank him. I also want to get my family's picture taken with him. ChicaAzul and I will remember him always, but I'd love for our 5 year old to grow up with a concrete piece of evidence that a POTUS cares about the future of a black child.

He certainly won't get that impression from this current POS!

[yurbud]

25. As for his personal failings, I think about half the people in the country

and nearly all his accusers did the same.

Clinton could get a blowjob AND take an important phone call.


Bush would fuck up the phone call even if he had a bug in his ear, cue cards,and hand puppets showing him what to say.

And I don't think Clinton ever called another world leader anything like Pooty Poot.

[yurbud]

26. A thought on Bush's use of nicknames for other world leaders...

they should return the favor and use some of the names for him we use here like Chimpy, Baby Bush, Junior, the Texas Tard, and Caligula.

How could he object when he gives them the same level of respect?

[Tim4319]

33. I'm 33

[WLKjr]

42. I'm 20 and all I remember about those years

were that my school got computers and the internet, and finding a job wasn't all that hard.


And the b.j. stories, can't forget those.

[SharonRB]

45. I'm 56 and I agree with you.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Here - article in NYT: Clinton Lends His Expertise and an Ear in Louisiana

The Former President
Clinton Lends His Expertise and an Ear in Louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 4 - He kissed babies, hugged their parents, felt their pain and smiled for cellphone photos. Bill Clinton was back in his element on Tuesday on a tour of Louisiana, and at times even seemed to forget his status as a former president.

"I'll get on that," he assured a man trying to square the abundance of supplies he had seen delivered to the shelter with the paucity of blankets and mouthwash inside.

-snip-
He got an earful from shelter residents about frustrations in their new lives, like times when the showers are shut off and what they see as a bureaucracy keeping them from a semblance of their old lives.

-snip-
He recounted several searing experiences to Mr. Clinton, including the failure of law enforcement and emergency medical workers to remove a dead body from a high school cafeteria where he had taken shelter.
"I'd rather have you tell me you can't do anything for me than promise me something you can't deliver," Mr. Warner told Mr. Clinton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/national/nationalspecial/05clinton.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1128485121-DQo7TSivzR2kEyDONPTvjQ

[chalky]

15. Funny. I did a google search on "Bush speaks to hurricane victims".

Nada. Tried "Bush visits hurricane victims". Still nothing.
Lots of hits about Bush speaking about the hurricane and about Bush speaking to reporters about the hurricane. Lots of pretty pictures of him with hurricane victims (Bassier sisters, anyone?), but I don't see anything that shows that he actually sat down and had a conversation with, prayed with, or listened to concerns from any of the victims. Nothing where he did ANYTHING but grace them with his glorious presence.

Curious, huh?

[MarianJack]

5. Has Anyone Ever Noticed...

...just how many MORE pictures exist of that godless BJ lover Bill Clinton in prayer as opposed to the number of that good holy and humble godly man :sarcasm: ** praying?

HMMMMMMM! You don't think that the media is covering up for the moron **, now do you?

[Splatter Phoenix]

19. Praying does not a good person make.

But I agree that of the two, Clinton is the more sincere.

[MarianJack]

21. Its True That Some Of the Biggest Bastards Carry Bibles,...

...but for all of the religious right's praise of **, its amazing how we almost never see him in church and they don't seem to notice (or care about) it!

It was the same with reagan, too!

[Splatter Phoenix]

28. Mmm, yes.

He makes the more dedicated of you look bad, doesn't he...

Ugh...* is a sickening hypocrite.

[CoffeeCat]

7. It's so nice...

...to look at a picture of a PRESIDENT and see sincerity, compassion and true empathy.

You look at those pictures and you can feel that President Clinton cares about those people and he's really listening to them.

Junior hand picks several "loyalists" for antiseptic photo ops that mean NOTHING.

He's such a fake. Such a shameful dork. A hollow husk.

I hate moments like this--when I'm reminded that we used to have a REAL MAN--not a frickin sociopathic child-- in the White House.

Bill Clinton made his mistakes. However, he was at least, human.

It's so, so crushing to contemplate what a sick man we have as pResident.

[Dees]

8. But but but..I'm a President too....

[alittlelark]

12. Oh yeah... the pics with the clean shiny white tennis shoes

and those wearing the shoes are freshly bathed and coiffed.....

:puke:


I soooo want this shell gone.

[alittlelark]

11. Those photos made my eyes misty...

DAMN, I wish we had a REAL president!

[3days]

17. We do

Here he is showing his form of compassion

[alittlelark]

20. It looks as though they are competing in 'Soul Sucking'

I think pretzel-boy lost.

[libnnc]

16. I want to see this on tee-vee

I want to see what he said to folks. I love watching him listen to people. Clinton is an 'active listener' which to me always conveyed sincerity and warmth. I didn't agree with all of his policies but damn I miss Bill :cry:

[yurbud]

18. Clinton went on Democracy Now election day 2000...

Any Goodman busted his chops about the death penalty and its racist application. It's hard to imagine Bush submitting to such a tough interview for that length of time--or at all.

Clinton knew his shit, and while he might have been too business friendly for some of us, he seemed to be holding back some of the worst impulses of the far right.

[FizzFuzz]

24. I agree there, and also, boyOboy do I miss him.

I'm absolutely not a policy expert, there's TONS that I don't know, and at that time I wasn't especially paying attention either, but from more recent reading I've been doing I got the impression too that Bill tried to much more, real good stuff, but was constantly roadblocked by GOP; also trying to walk the thin line, knowing that many things he wanted to get done would only fly if he made concessions to the selfish profit motives of the scumbags.

There's got to be lot's more to it, but never did I get the impression that Bill's activities were shady or destructive or ideologically selfish....

well anyway, I got teared up seeing these pics too. Makes me sick to think of the sociopath we've got now, and I'm on a constant emotional rollercoaster around those who are so deluded they think turdweasel is gawd's annointed favorite. If this doesn't stop soon, I'm gonna have to audition for a head-exploding scene in the remake of "Scanners".

[Lindacooks]

22. God, he's handsome. And brilliant too.

I want a real President again.

[mshasta]

27. the people's president.....

:cry:

[mshasta]

29. love it!

:kick:

[Stephanie]

30. I miss Bill!

[Alamom]

31. I miss him, too. n/t

[toad12]

34. Sigh, I miss the days when we had a president

who actually cared about all people, not just the "haves and have mores."

[Terran]

35. Oh man...

Just try to imagine Chimpy doing what Bill is doing there...it makes me weep to think what a good man we once had, and what a repulsive creature we now have.

[DS1]

36. Oh man, the wingers are going to be all over that first pic

Not only is Clenis letting it all hang out, who knew that Clenis was a foot long and BLACK! :scared:

[Straight Shooter]

39. They can compensate by showing a pic of bush

With a sardine on his lap.

[Historic NY]

37. I actually miss a President who could speak & I could understand.......

Bill Clinton was a people person. I met him a few times and once while on a rope line I brought my then 88yr old uncle with me. BC had the SS bring a chair over so my uncle could sit. My uncle was a life long Democrat and local politician for some 48+ yrs. My uncle was thrilled to talk with him for a moment or two, it made my day and I thanked him for it.

[Avalux]

38. A real President. I miss him terribly.

Saw a bit on CNN about this - he was asked if he ever tells Bush Sr. what he doesn't like about GW.
Clinton laughed and said he doesn't need to say what's already known. And at his age, he can't go around being mad at people all the time.

[ErisFiveFingers]

40. Awwww....

I came into this thread expecting to see the chimp in a photo-op, and was hit hard by what a real President, a man who really cares about his people, looks and acts like... it just warms my heart.

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. An amazing and caring man.

I miss him!

[alphafemale]

43. Any story on the beaded bracelet? (not in all pics)

He's wearing some type of bracelet in all pics, but the beaded one is only in the later two.

Somebody at the shelter must have given it to him.

I'd love to know the story.

[SharonRB]

44. As far as I'm concerned, you can remove the word "former"

from all of your captions. He's still my president, as far as I'm concerned.