Comments on: Bush Sees "Better Days" For New Orleans

President Tells City "We're Still Paying Attention" On Katrina's Two-Year Anniversary

[j-whitman]

Charles,,, I remember driving through Mississippi a few years after Hurricane Camille in 69 & seeing the devistation,, I''ve heard from people who came here & they''ve said the recovery is worse from Katrina,, Any truth in that ??

[chalres-2009]

radiob, Thanks for trying to help. But because we are a poor state, we will be treated as such. I am from B.R. and was not directly affected by the storm. I did however help with special needs patients for several days after the storm. These people needed help. I know it is more exciting to see these people and welfare collecting government cheese-eating bums. But, that simple not the case. The only thing I would disagree with you is if you could see the damaged caused by one of these storms you would realize how much more devastation then 911 it was. I do think it is unrealistic to expect this area to be fixed over night. It is going to take at least 10 years to get back to normal down here. Longer if we don''t get control of the fraud, perpetrated be businesses, not the people.

[j-whitman]

realpatriot1,,, Have you heard Obama''s plan ?? Sounds good to me, he''s the only one talking about restoring the delta a big cause of flooding & the slow sinking of New Orleans.

[realpatriot1]

Xlib,

I''m one liberal democrat who hears and appreciates what you''re saying.

All the politicians in both parties are using New Orleans as a backdrop this week for their photo opps and none of them are doing enough to address the problems which are actually effecting the rate and cost(to the government and to people)of the recovery.

Arguing over whose most to blame for the initial response is pointless to me because nobody is going to win any prizes for how it was initially handled. What matters is how best to put people''s lives back together.

I don''t think government is the whole answer but it''s cetainly part of it. So are the volunteers you mentioned who''ve pitched in to help fix the Gulf Coast; they''re acting as Americans, not as republicans or democrats.

My problem on this issue isn''t people like you; it''s people who want to demonize the victims and turn their back on other Americans then wave the flag and talk about how patriotic they are. Those people make me sick.

You have my respect.

[j-whitman]

Anyone want to talk about the lack of Port Security with multiplying demands on our ports ????

[j-whitman]

Please Bush no more of your visions

-- They''ve killed hundreds of thousands, destabilized regions, escellated terrorism & destroyed America''s National Security & our Military''s Strategic Reserves for no gain in over 4 years of reverse progress.

[lucasnico]

Bush sees better days for New Orleans.....as soon as his term is over.

[j-whitman]

Xlib,, OK, so Edwards was a lawyer for the people & made millions & gets $400 hair cuts ... Romney pays $690 every time he has someone put on his make up.

[kansas1946]

"Better days are ahead," Mr. Bush said as he sought to assure residents that his administration had not forgotten the region and would make good on the promises of aid.
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God help New Orleans if Bush is paying attention to it.

[j-whitman]

Xlib,, Cite my source,, dude if I copied all of Bush''s calamities I would need a hard drive the size of UNIVAC.

[j-whitman]

Xlib,, You asking about the lights on Bush''s 1st visit ??? I was broadcast live all over the nation, CNN.
.. Sorry, if I thought people weren''t paying attention & would have recorded it... Seriously inspite of the disaster, it was one of those falling out of the chair moments. Reporters had such a dumfounded look on thier faces you would have laughed too.

[radiob-2009]

Katrina was a national disaster on the level of 9-11 rendered by mother nature, do we not owe the citizens of all the areas effected by Katrina the same help? This was a political disaster by all partys involved from the mayors to the president. Rarely is a word spoken of it now except for political football.

[incog-nito]

"We''re still paying attention. We understand," the president said. "We''re just not going to do anything about it."

[rickstas]

Hey hawksprings -- I just wish the catastrophe of Katrina had had visited your city instead so you can comment about something you know about.

[ubrew12]

Xlib said: "your guy edwards has millions in a mortgage company that is foreclosing on "katrina victims".

Oh my GOD!!! Edwards has invested in MORTGAGE COMPANIES??? MILLIONS??? And mortgage companies actually occasionally FORECLOSE on people!!! Well, *** my Jaws!!!

Sheesh, the drivel you people post.

Headline: Bush Sees "Better Days" For New Orleans.

So do I: Dem administrations as far as the eye can see.

[realpatriot1]

To all the folks in New Orleans who have worked all their lives, paid your taxes, don''t do drugs, aren''t on welfare, and have owned your own businesses, I regret to inform you that your fellow citizens won''t help you to get back on your feet because you don''t fit their close-minded sterotypical simplistic view of reality.

sblake,

There are certainly people in New Orleans and in other urban centers who fit the profile you describe. They aren''t an excuse for you turnng your back on everyone else. I suppose the kids who haven''t had a chance to work and pay taxes and better themselves should rot too in your view.

I hear what people are saying about Nagin and corruption and not rebuilding below sea level and those are valid points. There''s nothing valid about your characterization of an entire community in the most vile and negative way that you''ve described.

I''m sorry that you had a bad upbringing and hate eveyone who can''t afford to leave the inner city or who chooses not to move because of family or friends or just not wanting to live near hostile morons like you.

After reading several of your comments today, it''s clear that you have issues that have to do with a bit more than New Orleans.

[walt1944-2009]

Emperor Bush II has stated that better days are coming for New Orleans. He also meant the entire USSA as it has been learned that the Emperor has almost certain plans to attack Iran and begin a new war in the Middle East. His interpretation of "better days" really did not apply to the people as he anticipates many of them will find "a home in the USSA Army" when he creates universal conscription. He really meant better days for the military, and for the war profiteers such as Halliburton and Blackhawk who would stand to become mega-billionare companies from a "fresh war" in the Middle East.

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!

[hawksprings]

MCVet, you need to take your meds, or change the ones you''re taking... they''re not working.

So by your last post, you must think that if a Dembot had been president, that New Orleans would''t have been wiped out by Katrina, right?

Who''s been running Loseyanna and New Orleans for decades? Liberals.
They had literally 200 years to prepare for a Cat 5 storm, and were they at all ready for a Cat 3 storm?
Instead, they whine and ****** about a Republican president not doing enough for them.

New Orleans re elected Nagin, and they deserve him.

Your pathetic rants and name calling show you have nothing to stand on.

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[j-whitman]

The "Surge has failed it''s Mission" & only little progress is made in a few areas wich is immediatly lost,,
,,, Iraq''s government is years from any reconciliation if any is achievable at all & it''s not...
.. Hearts & Minds are lost in Iraq, Afaganistan & New Orleans -
-- Al Queda has grown the War on Terror is in a recession -
-- & Bush is opposing Iran''s help to stabelize a Democraticaly Elected Sovereign Sheiite Governmet in Iraq at the request of Iraq''s sovereign leaders.

[mcvet]

The incompetence lies with Nagin, and Blanco, and their ilk for decades of not properly preparing the city for something THAT THEY KNEW WOULD ONE DAY HAPPEN.
Thier incompetence, greed, and liberal loserness precedes Bush by many, many years.

To lay this at the feet of Bush is the height of denial.

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Posted by hawksprings at 09:44 PM : Aug 29, 2007

LOL You poor simple minded fascist! Do YOU honestly believe REAL American''s buy your garbage. Between YOU clowns, Southern Fascist and your fuhrer Bush, you have turned the Republican Party into a laughing stock. The once great party is on the extinction list in MOST of the country and you just keep on with your Blame and denial. It''s amazing but not unusual for Southern Fascist. All I can say is I hope you keep it up... just keep on with your make believe group of American''s (Liberal''s) and blaming everyone who won''t go along with the party for what is so obviously Incompetent. You know video tells the truth in the Fuhrer''s OWN words and you losers can''t change that. The Republican Party isn''t that old anyway. Sieg Heil Y''all.