MSNBC: Bush praises those who have "dedicated their lives to the renewal of New Orleans"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bush to tour New Orleans and Gulf Coast
President will focus on rebuilding during Katrina anniversary visit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20490384/



NEW ORLEANS - President Bush is marking Hurricane Katrina’s devastating blow two years ago by celebrating those he says have “dedicated their lives to the renewal of New Orleans” even as he and others are criticized for not doing more to get the city and Gulf Coast back to their former selves.

Bush and his wife, Laura, are to spend Wednesday’s anniversary remembering the storm in New Orleans and Bay St. Louis, Miss.

It is the president’s 15th visit to the Gulf Coast since the massive hurricane obliterated coastal Mississippi, drowned most of the Big Easy and killed 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi when it roared onto land the morning of Aug. 29, 2005 — but only his second stop in these parts since last year’s anniversary.

The performance by the president and the federal government in the immediate aftermath of the storm — and some residents’ lingering sense of abandonment since — severely dented Bush’s image as a take-charge leader.

[groovedaddy]

1. Unlike him, showing complete disregard for NOLA

It's all about the spin, isn't it?

[rocktivity]

2. Did he say anything about the lives of the people HE sacrificed

by diverting the Louisiana National Guard to Iraq, staying on vacation, and not working with state and local government on a evacuation/relocation/restoration plan when he cut funding on the levees? We don't even have an official death count!

:mad:
rocknation

[MaineDem]

3. The photo op President

I really hope someone stands up to him at this photo op. He has zero understand or compassion for the people affected by Katrina. We all know that. Somehow I wish the NOLA people would get the chance to tell him directly.

[rodeodance]

4. love the photo you inserted. send to msnbc and ask them to insert. ha ha

[rox63]

5. Must be a typo

The speech should have mentioned those who have "dedicated their lives to the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans." :sarcasm:

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Didn't Bush name Karl Rove to oversee the reconstruction of New Orleans?

http://blacknews.com/pr/karl_rove101.html

"Characteristically, after Katrina and the shame of New Orleans, the president belatedly named a special advisor on the crisis. That man was Karl Rove. And Rove's policy was to disperse the displaced -- the poor, largely African American and Democratic voters -- to fifty states, with no plan to bring them back home. The administration made provision for Mexicans in the US to vote in the Mexican election and for Iraqis to vote in the Iraqi election, but it made no provision for special voting booths for those dispersed from New Orleans. For Rove, even the tragedy of New Orleans might be turned to parochial political purpose."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/15/BL2005091501098.html