[ladyinred]

I can't imagine the horror of being in that area, so I suppose he has to be given a pass for going off a bit. I would go bonkers myself.

[Common Tator]

Click here for the 'tator take on the blame game.

[NormsRevenge]

The pressures he is under, self inflected to some degree or not are intense..

Just so he doesn't pull a Teddy K and stick a dagger in the back of the man who will bail his arse out in the end...and do so graciously.

[OldFriend]

The situation his constituents found themselves in was CAUSED by the idiot, er Mayor.

[GoBucks2002]

I can't imagine the horror of being in that area,

Are we sure that Nagin has been in NO the whole time?

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I can't imagine the horror of being in that area, so I suppose he has to be given a pass for going off a bit. I would go bonkers myself.

Hey, Nagin found himself in the midst of a clusterfock that he helped to create. It's a miracle that 80% of his citizens were evacuated before the storm--thanks to Bush's early disaster proclamation and urging to evacuate. For him to throw an unprofessional hissy fit is inexcusable. He started off by openly endorsing looting, thus delaying the import of needed humanitarian supplies and evacuation of survivors. He ought to know better about the chain of command than to start publically blaming Bush. A manly leader would have admitted he was out of his league and asked the governor (which would have been an exercise in futility in this case) or the president to take over.

[ohioWfan]

The problem is, lady, that he shirked his responsibility BEFORE the hurricane.

Then he was silent.

Then he was screaming that this was the President's fault (when the only reason ANYTHING was done was because of the President).......... and now he's saying that his rant against the President got people's attention, when real work was already being done to save the people stranded due to his inaction, only BECAUSE of the President's action.

I personally don't have much sympathy for his 'going off a bit.'

But, I'll tell you one thing. President George W. Bush is a remarkable man to treat his tormentors with such great respect. We need to keep praying for him! May God bless and protect him from his enemies.

[photodawg]

can't imagine the horror of being in that area, so I suppose he has to be given a pass for going off a bit.
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He gets no pass.....his actions greatly contributed to the death toll by not decisively insuring the evacuation of large numbers of his citizens. The shots of hundreds of flooded school buses that weren't used to get the people who didn't have transportation out of the city infuriate me. This guy lives there, he knows his people and what their needs are. Telling them to go to the dome was asinine and short sighted. I'm sure that's why many people stayed, choosing to ride out the storm for a couple of days at the superdome, then go back home. They needed leadership, that this guy didn't provide. And then to attack the relief effort for the slow response is just too slick for words.