Bush Salutes New Orleans Storm Victims

AP ^ | 29 Aug 2007 | Jennifer Loven

[California Desert Rat]

President Bush commemorated Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow Wednesday with a somber moment of silence. Across town, in a symbol of a federal-city divide that persists two years after the killer storm, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin marked the levee-breach moment with bell-ringing.

[California Desert Rat]

Let's see if I have this straight. Bush has gone to New Orleans to commemorate, as Newt Gingrich correctly noted, a "failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane."

What a despicable P.C. crock o' ****!

[fatnotlazy]

It wasn’t a lack of education — it was a lack of effort and initiative on the part of the citizenry...not to mention a lack of leadership at the local level. If you see a hurricane approaching, you get out of the way. If you don’t, well, you face the consequences. You take responsibility. You don’t go around blaming the President or anyone else because you failed to take action on your own.

No matter what the President says or does, these folks, under the influence of the propagandist liberal socialist democrats and their allies in the mainstream media, are going to continue to blame the President for this mess.

[Tarpon]

The parts of NO that were self sufficient before the storm have been rebuilt after the storm. The parts that depended on the government before the storm, have sadly not been rebuilt after the storm, and probably never should. The failure of the welfare state in all it's glory.

[Ouderkirk]

I have a salute for the democRATs who live below sea level...

[roses of sharon]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474387/posts

You are correct, ck out this “Katrina Live Thread”, it is realtime evidence of decisions made, events, pressers, statements, ect.

It proves the MSM/DNC/Hollywood are liars.

This thread should be published in book form, for history, its too bad the residents can’t read this, they would feel differently, maybe.

[ishabibble]

>>”failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn’t get out of the way of a hurricane.”<<

And then they all turned out and reelected Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin. My TV will be off all day, when I see the debacle that NOLA is, my heart turns to stone.

[dfwgator]

"SAAA-LOOOOOT!"

[svanni]

“People of New Orleans, you are fully incapable of taking care of yourselves or your neighbors. You are completely dependent on failing social services. You are truely a burden to those around you and the country as a whole. You did, however, hunker down before the hurricane, despite all warnings to leave for higher ground. And although you were told that the government could not assist you if you chose to stay, you immediately and continually blame the government for the consequences of your actions. For all of these things, and while you stand there complaining with your hand out to receive the next freebie, as President of the United States, I salute you.”

- President George W. Bush

[evad]

This pic needs those Rummy lightening bolts from Bush's eyes into the eyes of the chocolate man.

Caption: I looked into his soul.

[evad]

....and found a black hole!!

[mrsmel]

New Orleans can go s***w itself. Oh wait, they're already doing a good job of that. I will never step foot in that town again. How dare they whine over the fact that Bay St Louis and the MS Gulf Coast, areas much poorer in general, have done by hard work, spirit and initiative, what they are too lazy and too stupid to do for their own selves. They re-elect Nagin, one of the architects of their plight, and have the nerve to cast blame at others, even others who were as devastated and had loss of life, as they were? Bay St Louis was wiped out, it looked like The Bomb had been dropped. From the very beginning, law enforcement took control, and the citizens defended their own property and that of their evacuated neighbors. Present-day New Orleans is a disgrace to its long-ago history.

[econjack]

But Powell said other areas — such as infrastructure repair and home rebuilding — are shared responsibilities with local officials or entirely the purview of state and local governments, suggesting that the federal government is absolved when those things don't happen.

Private home rebuilding is not a shared responsibility...it's your responsibility. If you choose to own a home that's 8' below sea level and not properly insure it and it's destroyed by a storm, you gambled and you lost. I see no good reason why my tax dollars should rebuild your house.

[USAFJeeper]

My family in Waveland, still in FEMA trailers are glad that the gulfcoast has recovered so well. Note also this article which talks about the MS Gulf Coast and how “recovered” it is.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/29/katrina.day/

Knowledge is a wonderful thing.

[mrsmel]

We’ve recovered well enough to not be whining to anyone with a microphone and a camera who’ll listen, we’ve recovered well enough to not have the nerve to talk about what “they” haven’t done for us while standing in our front yard filled with our own trash.

[mrsmel]

And I didn’t say that everything is back to normal, but we are certainly further ahead than the great cosmopolitan city to our west. At least, they seem to think so, judging by the whining they did about how much more help we got than them.

[USAFJeeper]

Here is another link to how wonderful Biloxi is now.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/COL0410/706290335

[USAFJeeper]

Did you bother to read the story? You know the part where th eresidents were whining to the camera?

[mrsmel]

Did you miss where I said that everything isn’t back to normal yet? I am talking about New Orleans having the nerve to say that the MS Gulf Coast is doing better than them, because we weren’t as devastated as them and got more help than them.

[HIDEK6]

I see no good reason why my tax dollars should rebuild your house.

Once the government takes them, they're no longer "your" tax dollars.

They're Hillary's.

[sanjacjake]

You are so right. Nagin and the Jesse and Al trio
sit on their fat A** and expect all the world to come
and do their work for them..bunch of lazy, pompous,
nitwits who lead (?????) the blacks all over the world,
they think !!!!!!!!!!! JK