Posted on 10/14/2009 6:12:31 AM PDT by Ebenezer
In Norway they may think that President Barack Obama has a great knack for peace, but around here his forte seems to be stirring up strife.
New Orleans is mad because Obama's visit tomorrow will be little more than a whistlestop.
The Mississippi Gulf Coast is mad because New Orleans gets all the attention, such as it is, while the lingering effects of Katrina over there are ignored.
And from southwest Louisiana comes the cry, "What about Rita, Gustav and Ike? The president really needs to take a look at Cameron Parish."
Obama is also being denounced for an apparent lack of curiosity about the incredible shrinking wetlands.
The original announced White House plan was for Obama to fly way down yonder merely in order to hold a "town hall" before beetling off to California for a fund raiser.
Members of our congressional delegation took turns demanding evidence of a little more concern for the state of the recovery, and the protests did not go unheeded. Soon came the announcement that Obama would make time to visit the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward.
That did not smooth over any feathers in other parts of the region, where hordes of bedraggled storm victims grow weary of the constant harping on the Lower 9th.
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Only 830 miles from my house. Almost worth the trip.
A little attention to Galveston, please. New Orleans brought much of its misery on itself and won’t stop whining no matter what people do. And people have done a lot.
Many of the people in New Orleans would steal your chain saw and pawn it. I know, I used to live and work there.
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Your comment is dead on.....I’ve seen over the past 4 years all the progress that’s been made by those folks over there and it’s amazing....Are there still areas that need help? Of course, the whole coastal area between Bayou La Batre, AL and the MS/LA line was almost destroyed. Keelser AFB alone sustained close to $lB in damage but those folks never stayed on TV with their hands out begging for money. So many people seem to think Katrina hit NOLA - it didn’t - it came ashore in MS.....but the media fixated on NOLA and ignored the damages and death in MS and AL....typical MSM...
I’m in Jefferson Parish as well, and I couldn’t agree more.
Bush is from Texas. That’ll keep Ø out of that state forever, or at least until 2012.
BTW, where is the federal $$$$$$ for the California fires? Or the floods in Georgia? Or any of the other disasters that have occurred since this disaster hit Washington? Where? Where? Where?
Well you see, the evil Goerge W Bush turned on his weather machine and the eviler Dick Cheney guided it directly to the black folks of new orleans. They spared the whites in Mississippi and Alabama. THEN they snuck in to the city and blew up the levies to flood the city. Their ultimate intention was to dilute the black voting block in new orleans and spread death and destruction in a 12 square block area.
HI Bama-
I evaced to northern Mobile county for Katrina. As you know we were hit hard there on the ‘bad’ side of the storm; and what I saw afterward amazed me.
ALL the locals came out and cleared their own roads. Travel was possible hours after Katrina passed. They had the
gumption and the equipment to do this.
MOST residents of N.O. have neither.
The dirt poor( a huge majority here) have no pride, expect everything done for them and spend all their money on drugs, big screen tv’s or hairdos and nails. They wouldn’t know what to do with a chainsaw if they wanted to spend money on them- which they don’t. Also there are NO responsible menfolk among the lower classes here. Our lower class is lower than any other in the country. They do as they have been culturally raised to do- Wait for others to provide what they need.
The well-off here sure as He$$ aren’t going to go out and break a sweat cleaning their own streets much less those of poorer areas. That’s what do-gooders from out of town are for. The wealthy here tried to HIRE people to fix up their general surroundings but were horrified at the lack of working class available after the storm.
Local message boards here- for the more affluent neighborhoods- were full of moaning that their gardeners or maids could not be found when the weather cleared! They had to SHARE help!!!
So you can’t compare N.O. to the Gulf coast when it comes to self-reliance. It’s an accepted ethic there. It never was- and never will be- here. Because of the class of the population. And that’s that.
You summed that up perfectly...LOL
President of the Photo Op.
Nothing to see here, move along.
He’s only visiting Democrat victory states.
I wonder if he looked at William Jefferson’s freezer while he was in Louisiana.
Been there, seen it.
It isn’t just NOLA, as much as you may wish.
It really bothers me when people like you try to whitewash (racist!) the truth.
Your statement is pretty glib. The election was on November 4, 2008, the inauguration was held on January 20, 2009, that's a time span of two months and sixteen days. That's plenty of time for people to make plans for transportation to Washington D.C., as well as time to find and reserve accommodations.
How much time do you think the citizenry of New Orleans, population about 450,000 before the storm, had to secure their property, pack up their belongings, try to find a hotel room within a reasonable radius (not easily done), and head out in the hopes that when they return they still have something to return to? Add to that dealing with bumper to bumper traffic that turns a six hour trip into a twenty hour trip and you have a vague idea of the ridiculousness of your post. Also keep in mind that despite the never ending slams that people did not leave, 80% of the population evacuated before Katrina came through. That means that the people you saw on CNN and FOX in September of 2005 constitute only about the remaining 20%. Some of those people didn't leave because they didn't have have the financial means to secure a place to stay, or a way of getting there. As one whose family has evacuated several times, the last being for Gustave, I can tell you that with gasoline, food, and lodgings etc, it's not a cheap endeavor.
These pictures are a good illustration of the evacuating before Katrina. That's Xavier University of New Orleans in the background of the first one and the Superdome in the background of the second.
Anyway, I'd like to see that speculation make it out to the nutroots... OBAMA'S ACTING WHITE!!!!
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