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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    Since all conservatives tried to blame him for all the Katrina mess, where is the praise now? Jindal played it safe and declared a State of Emergency last week so he gets a star for not waiting. SO now I will wait for those who blamed Nagen to come back and praise him for a job well done this time around.

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    Yes, let's make this a partisan issue again.

    Kudos to Nagin for learning from last time. Hopefully the people of the region have learned as well.

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    Yep, good job not totally ing up this time.

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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    Yes, let's make this a partisan issue again.

    Kudos to Nagin for learning from last time. Hopefully the people of the region have learned as well.
    It's not a partisan issue this time. If anyone who criticized him has an ounce of intellectual integrity they should come out and praise the man.

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    Yep, good job not totally ing up this time.

    case in point. zero intellectual integrity.

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    Come on GGA, you know as well as I do that good news = no news in this country. I'm glad Nagen is being proactive this time around but does he really deserve that much praise for just not repeating the same steps that led to a disaster the first time around?


    Should homeland security, President Bush, FEMA, Nat'l Guard, etc, etc, get praise from everyone too because they aren't ing it up this time either?

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    It's not a partisan issue this time. If anyone who criticized him has an ounce of intellectual integrity they should come out and praise the man.
    I don't see why an appropriate response by a mayor on his second chance at addressing a catastrophe warrants obligatory praise. Same would go for FEMA.

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    Come on GGA, you know as well as I do that good news = no news in this country. I'm glad Nagen is being proactive this time around but does he really deserve that much praise for just not repeating the same steps that led to a disaster the first time around?


    Should homeland security, President Bush, FEMA, Nat'l Guard, etc, etc, get praise from everyone too because they aren't ing it up this time either?
    I guess this a form of praise. Yes, I agree that everyone has learned their respective lessons.

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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    I don't see why an appropriate response by a mayor on his second chance at addressing a catastrophe warrants obligatory praise. Same would go for FEMA.
    My point is that Nagen did the exact same thing the first time around and got hammered. He ordered mandatroy evacuations and managed to get 85 - 90% of the city out before Katrina yet many conservatives blamed him anyway for all of the mess afterwards.

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    It's sort of like the gas price thing. Bush comes out and says we are lifting the ban on off-shore drilling. Prices immediatley begin to drop. Not one person on this entire board said a single thing that it could have possibly been as a result (at least partially) from Bush's speech.

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    My point is that Nagen did the exact same thing the first time around and got hammered. He ordered mandatroy evacuations and managed to get 85 - 90% of the city out before Katrina yet many conservatives blamed him anyway for all of the mess afterwards.
    See, this is the thing I don't understand about the whole Katrina debacle........IT WAS A ING HURRICANE!!!! No one was ready for it, no one prepared the correct way, and no one responded the correct way............shouldn't everyone catch a little of the blame (which I guess they did)?

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    Come on GGA, you know as well as I do that good news = no news in this country. I'm glad Nagen is being proactive this time around but does he really deserve that much praise for just not repeating the same steps that led to a disaster the first time around?


    Should homeland security, President Bush, FEMA, Nat'l Guard, etc, etc, get praise from everyone too because they aren't ing it up this time either?
    +1

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    The performance standards in Americnan culture have been so dumbed down, debased, trivialized, ignored (eg, George Tenet, Katrina/FEMA/Brownie) that someone who just does his ing job right for once is supposed to get a medal.

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    I don't see why an appropriate response by a mayor on his second chance at addressing a catastrophe warrants obligatory praise. Same would go for FEMA.
    I was thinking in a similar manner.

    Think he'll get it right this time?

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    My point is that Nagen did the exact same thing the first time around and got hammered. He ordered mandatroy evacuations and managed to get 85 - 90% of the city out before Katrina yet many conservatives blamed him anyway for all of the mess afterwards.
    If he did exactly the same thing, would the evacuation order be out yet?

    How soon before it hit did he give the order?

    Did he use the busses this time?

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    It's sort of like the gas price thing. Bush comes out and says we are lifting the ban on off-shore drilling. Prices immediatley begin to drop. Not one person on this entire board said a single thing that it could have possibly been as a result (at least partially) from Bush's speech.
    Including me?

    I pointed out at least twice that prices started to drop the next trading session!

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    Thank him for doing his job? For not ing up?

    No.

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    Sure, I'll give him props for not ing up this time...

    Will you now admit he's largely responsible for the deaths of thousands of people due to his previous incompetence?


    My guess is that you will, slightly, but only as you split the blame...amazingly enough after making no attempt to split the props...


    This makes you a .

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    Thank him for doing his job? For not ing up?

    No.
    /thread 1000 people died last time, he shouldn't even have been given the second chance to begin with.

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    /thread 1000 people died last time, he shouldn't even have been given the second chance to begin with.
    No kidding.

    How did he ever get re-elected?

    Do the democrats cheat that good each November?

    I hate to think the people of New Orleans are that stupid.

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    To be fair I think Blanco is the one that ed up along with Bush last time. Nagin could have done things better but really he was only a mayor. This needed to be handled at the very least on the state level.

    In any regard, he HAS learned from this and they have obviously all done better right on up the ladder to President Bush. Its about ing time. At least maybe the people who died didn't die entirely in vain.

    But to expect a ing thank you note is a bit over the top, imo.

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    oh please ... Nagin is a goddamn fool. No one here likes that piece of except ignorant black people who voted him back in. He and Blanco are to blame for the mess Katrina was.

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    keep asking questions George Gervin's Afro's Avatar
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    oh please ... Nagin is a goddamn fool. No one here likes that piece of except ignorant black people who voted him back in. He and Blanco are to blame for the mess Katrina was.
    You're a dumbass. Let's see:

    Nagin managed to evacuate 85-90% of the city. His fault?
    Was he the person who built the leveees?
    What as Mr Nagin supposed to do when all communication capabilities were lost?
    Was he responsible for the Superdome falling apart?

    I assume you are a 'personal responsibility' kind of girl so can't we conclude it was the responsibility of those who stayed behind as a personal choice? Or is this conservative staple not relelevent this time? Do you just pick and choose when to apply conservative principles? Even though many people chose to stay he opened the largest facility in the City to provide protection for those who failed to listen to his evacuation notice.

    There was plenty of fault to go around but to blame two people exclusively for a natural disaster and it's aftermath is stupid.

    When you came on thi message board you were a little funny but now you've become a piece of . Congratulations.

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    Nagin did an awsome job this time believe it or not.

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    To be fair I think Blanco is the one that ed up along with Bush last time. Nagin could have done things better but really he was only a mayor. This needed to be handled at the very least on the state level.

    In any regard, he HAS learned from this and they have obviously all done better right on up the ladder to President Bush. Its about ing time. At least maybe the people who died didn't die entirely in vain.

    But to expect a ing thank you note is a bit over the top, imo.

    Exactly, all you ever hear about is ripping up Bush.

    You never hear ANYTHING about how big of a up Blanco was.

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