Posted on 09/04/2012 1:10:16 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
Blanco refused to allow federal command of the Louisiana National Gurad.Thats what slowed the rsponse. Blanco did it to herself by playing politics above wanting to bring aid to the People.
...”President Bush, during a visit to Louisiana September 2, 2005, five days after the storm, offered to federalize the Louisiana National Guard to simplify the command structure. The Governor declined, because the Guard would then become part of the federal military forces and therefore lose much-needed policing powers. The President subsequently continued to press the offer so Governor Blanco rejected it in writing.....”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Blanco
That says it all.
My friend, Christine Channer, said that she viewed a video feed of Obama’s press conference. She said, “There was no veiled reference; it was a direct hit. President Obama contrasted the current emergency response to Issac with the response efforts to Katrina under the George W. Bush administration. President Obama specifically mentioned Katrina and President George W. Bush.” She watched the news item on the 11 P.M. News, September 3, 2012, broadcast on the local Utica, NY, NBC affiliate station.
All efforts to locate a copy of that video feed or an article reporting that President Obama made the aforementioned remark have been futile. It appears to her that the news media have sanitized President Obama’s comparison. However, she would like to give President Obama full credit for turning a natural disaster into a political campaign moment.
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