Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<New Orleans is a city that has been run for YEARS by liberal democrats.. black liberal democrats even.>> I know what you mean Beau... black liberal democrats are the very worst kind, aren't they? [rolleyes]
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom FEMA did a hell of a lot better than anything that New Orleans had to offer or the state of Lousianna. FEMA was asked to provide relief to the entire southeastern USA. But the Libs and the media would like us all to forget this and want us all to think that Katrina was a selective storm that ONLY effected New Orleans. Nice try! My memory is better than that. I lived throught it. And still might be heading down to Lousianna to restore some of the utilities.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy <<I know what you mean Beau... black liberal democrats are the very worst kind, aren't they?>> How can the libs claim racism like they have for this story when the town was run by blacks?? That was the point.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I think a big reason so much focus was on New Orleans was because it has such a hold on the national imagination. Disneyland didn't build "Biloxi Square," after all. Even people who have never been to the real New Orleans (or to DL's version) feel like they "know" New Orleans. And the images of the city that people love even if they've never set foot in it being subject to that kind of devastation were powerful.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Well its either selective memory on the part of the Liberal media or it was a selective storm that ONLY struck New Orleans. I seem to remember someone telling me earlier in the week that you can't have it both ways.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I really think it's more laziness than anything else. It's just plain easier to have one focus of a story, and New Orleans looms large in our collective imagination in a way that Gulport and Mobile just don't. The tsunami coverage tended to be focused on Banda Aceh (I think about 80% of the stories I saw after the first week were from there), when that disaster struck a HUGE area. After the first week, it was basically all about Banda Aceh, as all the media had camped there, and it was hard to remember seeing any stories from Sri Lanka or Malaysia or the Maldives or Thailand - with the notable exception of the tourist resort in Thailand where some famous people had been. That pretty much says it all.
Originally Posted By gadzuux We've seen countless posts now from our conservative members about how it's "all the liberal black democrats" who are at fault. Perhaps they missed the overall point of the thread topic - the GOP "itself" is saying that this was a "failure" on a national level - on THEIR level. Bush himself has pubicly stated that he takes full responsibility (whatever that means) for the botched response. So who do you have to hear it from before you'll believe it?
Originally Posted By Beaumandy << I think a big reason so much focus was on New Orleans was because it has such a hold on the national imagination. Disneyland didn't build "Biloxi Square," after all. >> Yep, that makes sense now that you mention it. I have never been to New Orleans and I view it as some mystical place that spurred the Pirates rides and a great land in DL.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I don't really care who took responsibility for Katrina. The President should not have taken responcibility for the cleanup. By promising the evacuse assistance he has set a dangerous presidence to provide financial aid to hurricane victims. What about the good people of Florida who got struck by 4 hurricanes. Why don't they receive the same benefits as the Kartina victims? Many Floridians still can't move back into their homes. And they never got any debit cards from FEMA. When I hear someone ANYONE make a stupid comment like "The Feds are to blame for Katrina" and provide NOTHING to back it up with. Any statesment like this are such blantant lies. I would like to hear anyone explain to be how the Feds are responcible for Katrina. Calling it a National Failure is so out of line. The Feds did a great job. If there was a failure it was on the State and Local levels.
Originally Posted By cmpaley >>I think the idea of New Orleans was sometimes better than the reality.<< It usually works that way in the real world.
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> Calling it a National Failure is so out of line. The Feds did a great job. If there was a failure it was on the State and Local levels. << You're still not getting it, KT - it's the republican led investigation that's saying "national failure". Absolutely no one is saying the "feds did a great job" - except you.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I'm glad Brown is gone, that is for sure. But the Feds job was made vastly more complicated because of the ineptitude of local government.
