Harry Shearer: Obama to New Orleans: Hold On, I'm Coming

[Louisiana1976]

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Two points about The Visit: as the Sun-Herald correctly points out, the President's visit is limited to New Orleans, leaving out a touchdown in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the area actually devastated by Hurricane Katrina, as opposed to the area (N.O. and vicinity) devastated by the failure of the federally-designed and -constructed levees and floodwalls.

Second, the White House's press release (which appears to not appear any more at whitehouse.gov) emphasizes the President's commitment to the visit as a touchstone for reforming disaster-response at federal, state and local levels. Translation: whoever is advising Obama is, like the national media, obsessed with the failures of Bush-era FEMA, and not at all focused on the four-decade-long failure, under both parties, of the Army Corps of Engineers.

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Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/obama-to-new-orleans-hold_b_307243.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. The whining continues in Mississippi

The proud red state which doesn't need any stinking gubmint money; the state which handled Post-Katrina things so much better then New Orleans (per them); the state whose residents daily trash President Obama on every media and print outlet available; the state whose residents don't want you to get your stinking goverment hands on their medicare are so upset because the man they hate isn't coming to visit.

[Hekate]

3. Poetically put, Bosshog. nt

[BOSSHOG]

5. These people flaunt it

Their ignorance, their teen dropout rate, their teen pregnancy rate, the total inability to understand the constitution, the incredible amount of trash on the highways and byways, their obesity and their insistence on their independence while not say no to not one federal dollar.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Yeah you rite!

!!

[BlooInBloo]

2. Note that 70% of the last 40 years has been under a republican President....

Not quite *equal* failure on both sides, though certainly we didn't do our part that smaller proportion of the time we were there.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. The simpsons should be cancelled and replaced with a spinoff of The Cleveland Show.

It'd be funnier.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Ack!

[omega minimo]

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