Originally posted by BP:please excuse yourself from this discussion. as mentioned before it is not the mayor nor the governors responsibility to come up with disaster management and recovery plans.
(I guess for the sake of this argument I will assume that Nagin had no responsibility for the people of NO). He could have been a good leader and recognized that the authorities were not doing what they were supposed to, and allocated local resources appropriately.
I wonder what would have happened if Guiliani would have excused himself from any responsibility in New York because 'handling attacks on the U.S. is not his responsibility'. We aren't comparing apples and oranges; both are leaders. One excelled, the other failed miserably.
