Ray Nagin is a Joke
Posted by: Denelle
Really, how did he ever manage to become, let alone stay, Mayor of New Orleans. He has his foot in his mouth so much of the time I'm amazed that he can even get it out long enough to make comments like his most this most recent one - a jab at New York City and the World Trade Center site.
Ummm yeah, because what happened here in New York five years ago and a predicted hurricane are so the same thing. Maybe it's because junked out cars sitting around in the streets are the same thing as the thousands and thousands of tiny little pieces of the human remains of the nearly 3,000 people who died on September 11th that are still being recovered from Ground Zero.
I don't think so.
Mr. Nagin, before you start making comments about NYC and how things are handled here perhaps you should actually take the time to clean up your city and make it inhabitable again. It seems to me that it would be a much better use of your time than blaming than trying to compare apples and oranges.
See, we may have a big hole in the ground but the rest of our city is functioning just fine. You obviously can't say the same.
Really, how did he ever manage to become, let alone stay, Mayor of New Orleans. He has his foot in his mouth so much of the time I'm amazed that he can even get it out long enough to make comments like his most this most recent one - a jab at New York City and the World Trade Center site.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin took a swipe at New York's development of the World Trade Center site on a TV news show.
Nagin claimed that much of the debris in the devastated Ninth Ward of New Orleans had been removed from public property.
When a "60 Minutes" correspondent pointed out flood-damaged cars on the streets, Nagin shot back, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later. So let's be fair."
Ummm yeah, because what happened here in New York five years ago and a predicted hurricane are so the same thing. Maybe it's because junked out cars sitting around in the streets are the same thing as the thousands and thousands of tiny little pieces of the human remains of the nearly 3,000 people who died on September 11th that are still being recovered from Ground Zero.
I don't think so.
Mr. Nagin, before you start making comments about NYC and how things are handled here perhaps you should actually take the time to clean up your city and make it inhabitable again. It seems to me that it would be a much better use of your time than blaming than trying to compare apples and oranges.
See, we may have a big hole in the ground but the rest of our city is functioning just fine. You obviously can't say the same.
Sorry if I sound bitter here, but I am one of those people that called the city you are talking bad about home. I guess it's hard to imagine your life being washed away in the twinkling of an eye. The city is still in horrible conditions. And, yes there were pieces of human remains after the attack, which I am not downplaying. But there are still whole, rotting bodies being found daily from areas that people couldn't get out of. City workers going to destroy homes find the corpses of victims stuck in rafters of the attic. The people down here are trying to make things get back to normal. Sorry if that's hard since the damage here was over an entire area and not just one building. I'm sure that might have a lot to do with it. While the September 11th attacks were nothing short of horrifying, I'm sure that you should consider a natrual disaster such as Katrina no less so. Yes, it was predicted, but even up until the minute of landfall, exactly where a hurricane will go is completely unknown. This storm was actually supposed to spare New Orleans and go to Mississippi. Go figure. I applaud Mayor Nagin because he tells it how it is and actually got in and did the dirty work during Katrina instead of running and hiding. Fixing one hole in the ground compared to an entire region isn't much of a comparison at all.
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Stephanie |
Sat Aug 26, 07:00:00 PM 2006