(Bill)Clinton: Government 'failed' people

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/clinton.katrina/index.html ^

[lunarbicep]

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton on Monday said the government "failed" the thousands of people who lived in coastal communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and said a federal investigation was warranted in due time.

[lunarbicep]

sounding like Jimmy Carter now

[Blzbba]

He's right. The LA State Gov't did fail the people of NO.

[rod1]

and People failed to evacuate as ordered.

[IronMan04]

The State Governments of Mississippi and Mississippi and the Federal Government failed the victims of Katrina.

[Clintonfatigued]

He's right, the government did fail the people. And, as President for eight years (1993-2001), he is part of that failure.

[rightwinggoth]

The people failed the people when they started raping and killing them and leaving the sick and infirm to die.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Why haven't I heard of complaints from Miss. and Ala.?

Everything I'm hearing is coming from NOPD and Louisiana Gov.
Am I not reading the right news articles??

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I saw that interview and as I recall he was placing most blame on local and state governments..the CNN headline makes it look like he was blasting Bush, but I don't think that was the case..

[msnimje]

Well I say all government workers should just go home now.

[xcamel]

Dead on, all the brainless, gutless, whiny liberal morons he helped get elected in the south.

Spot on, Cigar Boy.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I'm afraid Mississippi and Alabama are on the back burner news-wise because of new orleans..those states have major problems also but it's not being publicized..

[syriacus]

Nagin abandoned the poor of New Orleans, just like Kerry abandoned the people of South Vietnam and just like Cindy Sheehan wants to abandon the people of Iraq.

It's beginning to look like Nagin and Blanco and their cronies can't read. Otherwise Nagin and Blanco would have been aware, I imagine, of this study which shows that poorer people do not move out of a hurricane's path as often as people of means do, and special steps need to be taken to protect them.

Citizen Hurricane Evacuation Behavior in Southeastern Louisiana: A Twelve Parish Survey
Released by The Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Taskforce, July 2005.

The study concluded (page 6) that

The number of low income residents who remain in harm’s way illustrates the need for both
education about the need to travel far enough¹
and
providing evacuation assistance to those without means²

1. I don't think Nagin emphatically told his poorer constituents that they needed to evacuate at a distance, to high land, rather than take shelter in a friend's "stronger" home.
2. I know I don't have to ask if Nagin sent buses to evacuate his poorer constituents.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

All this talk about investigations are going to go away as they realize what a real investigation would uncover...lots of turf wars and bad decisions in Louisiana....by democrats. Can't have that come to the surface, now can they?

[pcottraux]

Yeah, the government failed the people when it sold nuclear secrets to China and ignored a growing threat of terrorism and Al Quaeda.

Who was president when that happened? Hm...

[advance_copy]

The United States deployed 40,000 troops into the area with equipment and provision for an entire city. The troops and equipment had to move into an area the size of Great Britain that was ravaged by hurricane, with land operations obstructed by debrist. They secured the city and evacuated it, then they fixed the levees. This was done in less than one week! They deserve our gratitude, not Bill Clinton's condemnation. He is such a putz.

[the Deejay]

and People failed to evacuate as ordered.

Indeed.

I don't buy, "they didn't have cars."

I'll bet the ranch, anytime they wanted to go & visit Aunt Mabel in FL, or wherever, they knew how to get on a bus, at a moment's notice.

[ladyinred]

Bill Clinton should know better than to make these kinds of remarks. He also should thank his lucky stars (Marxists ones) that the public isn't aware of what he himself DID NOT DO when he was in charge. If they did, he would be ran out of town on a rail so to speak.

[faithincowboys]

I remember when Slick Willie was saying he had a 5.6 Trillion Dollar Surplus. Why didn't he make the levees able to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane during his 8 unglorious years as POTUS?

[ThreePuttinDude]

Ah....the Blue State Boogie Blues.....I got it

[madison10]

You ought to know, Bill...you helped.

[lunarbicep]

hhhmmmmm ???

[fellowpatriot]

The people failed the people when they started raping and killing them and leaving the sick and infirm to die.

The people failed the people when they voted these idiots into office (Nagin and Blanco)

[Doogle]

just like the scumbag to parse words again....


Doogle

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

wow. I checked cnn and saw the clip and it is all slanted as if he is just totally slamming Bush,

[ThreePuttinDude]

That was ment in a slur towards the politicos at the state and local levels.

Not towards the problem the people are dealing with.

[conservativecorner]

Exactly what does he want to investigate? Does it concern the 20% of NO residents who refused to leave the city? Maybe the 145 school buses parked 1.2 miles from the Super-dome that were never used in the evacuation? Bubba is a snake and will always be a snake.

[Howie66]

Phuque him.

[pa mom]

The buses weren't running. Most of them have probably not left the city of New Orleans in their lives. These are not a traveling people.

I agree they did not do all they could to save themselves. But many had little knowledge of the ways of the world outside their neighborhood.

[kb2614]

I blame the JOOOOOOSSSSS!!!!!


There the only group of people that havn't been blamed yet.

rolleyes

[dk/coro]

One of the reasons is that NO one can make levees withstand that type of onslaught.

But, please do not get me started on Clinton -- that worthless bag of s---!

He would make Jimmy Carter look good in an emergency!

[conservativecorner]

[maizey]

Nagin and Blanco make me sick; how could anyone not place the major blame of not evacuating the residents of NO on them. Incredible!!!

[T Lady]

Perhaps it could be that the governors of Alabama and Mississippi had their emergency plans in place, and the mayors of any towns affected had their plans in check, too.

...Or, as we probably can guess, the RAT Media is over playing the Race Card, since New Orleans is 70% black, and has a black mayor and possibly an all-black city council.

You decide.

[maggief]

[DoughtyOne]

If this son of a bitch wants to open investigation, I'd like nothing better. Obstruction of Justice and wintess tampering would be a good start.

[bethtopaz]

Also when everyone (including Nagin and Blanco) read the Evacuation Plan for New Orleans probably for the first time.

[popdonnelly]

Yep, the failures were on the part of the State of Louisiana. Putting aside New Orleans, is there any place in Louisiana were relief efforts were going smoothly? How is it that other States can handle hurricanes without neglecting the safety of their citizens?

[bethtopaz]

Yeah, Bill, let's do a thorough investigation of this as well as a thorough investigation of your derelictio of duty when you were president.

[bethtopaz]

Let's hope - honestly, bill clinton is usually pretty diplomatic when it comes to making public statement - unlike his spouse.

[chainsaw]

He's right, the government did fail the people. And, as President for eight years (1993-2001), he is part of that failure.

Spoken like a Zell Miller Democrat.

[BIGZ]

Clinton is correct. Bush caused the Katrina and the devastation that followed, Bush wanted to make sure the Gays would not have their yearly Gay Mardi Gras, aptly named Southern Decadence.

The Hurricane did not dissuade several dozen gays dressed in tutus and Grass skirts from marching down Bourbon street to the delight of spectators throwing beads from balconies. The uniform of the day for the spectators was birthday suits.

Did not see this in the main stream press?

[Eagle Eye]

List the specifics.

But I won't hold my breath waiting for your answer.

[VOYAGER]

Bill Clinton the liar, adulterer, backstabber, draft dodger, traitor and an all around descending colon.

[IronMan04]

After the storm hit people were left in shelters without food and water in both Mississippi and Louisiana.

[hometoroost]

In that bottom picture he looks like he's saying "huh, so you're saying I could have gotten one of those buses and loaded it up with unevacuated women and just driven 'em all the way to my place in Arkansas?...Shazam, why didn't I think of that?"

[OldFriend]

From the looks of the grifter, he might not be here to dance on the grave of the country.

[aworldtrader]

When you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.

[Hilltop]

And to think, at one time he was an ascending colon.

[tazman3]

Oh, that second pic screams 'CAPTION ME'. Especially compared to the first one. But I can't. It's too soon.