Originally posted by BP:
the story i saw on CNN said he did halt the return of people to the city and also ordered an evacuation.



Only AFTER the feds kept hammering him to do it AND after the newly-elected FEMA chief took to the airwaves. It appears that Nagin is more concerned about his image and any potential "usurpment" of his precious and little-used powers as mayor than getting people to safety and using a smidge of common-sense...

Originally posted by BP:
this MSN story is misleading and so is your post.

Why? Because it shows an elected official who just so happens to be black as an idiot? Or just because I'm white and decided to comment on the stupitidy of an invidual who just so happened to be black?

Pray tell the reasons this is a "misleading" story and post, since Nagin is right up there with Michael Brown as an abject failure.

Originally posted by BP:
and it's funny to me how people line up to bash this elected official for mistakes due to an unpredictable storm, but when the highest elected official in the land rushes into a screw up of enormous proportions all of sudden you're anti-american for bashing him.



This is just about the weakest, most innane bunch of garbage you've managed to belch up in a while, and that's saying something. I've laid into Brown and good-riddance; he's an absolute embarassment to the Bush administration (despite the fact that Joe Lieberman's Senate committee that he headed up did a 42 minute chat session with him and approved him with flying colors), but let's face it: the Federal govt. was handed an absolute mess due to the sheer stupidity and ineptitude that a particular mayor and governor showed towards Mother Nature then when things don't turn around fast enough, they try to pass ALL of the blame up the ladder. True, FEMA needs a lashing of epic proportions due to their response, but the profound LACK of state and local preparations and planning is simply SICK.

You are certainly referring to someone other than me when making the claim that I've bashed anyone for being un-American for nailing FEMA, Brown or Bush...

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