Posted by
Rich from NW Indiana on Friday, August 25, 2006 4:19:58 PM
Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans is at it again. He opened his mouth and talked again in front of a microphone. He is as subtle as a land mine. When critiqued for failing to remove wrecked cars from parts of his ruined city, he ripped New York City for not yet rebuilding the World Trade Center.
Thats what gets me. Nagin is the symbol of nonfunctional urban areas. He totally dropped the ball when destruction rained down on his city. New York City did very well for what happened to it on September 11, they didn't wait for the feds to bail them out.
Yet he got support from the "Mainstream" Media, and got them to blame President Bush (and Republicans in general). Never mind that most of the local politicos that did nothing are Democrat. If the media was fair they would be all over this nitwit Nagin for being a huge failure. Howard Dean (yet another guy who says dumb things in front of microphones) believes that the Democrats will gain seats because of Katrina. If it so, then these two will benefit because of the media, not their skills as politicians. If you need proof of media bias, this is it! A Republican could never be this dumb.
New Orleans has many great things like its music, local food and the French Quarter. It also has less charming parts like the many pickpockets and its present mayor. Its too bad the voters didn't blow this guy out of town after the storm. It will make rebuilding this city that much harder.
Side Note: When I ran spell check on this post, it wanted to replace Nagin with Noggin. I thought it was funny, and I think the readers of this post would too.