Nagin regains power, but white dems wanted to oust him!

the DNC worked and paid to have Nagin defeated in New Orleans, even though they were trying to get black votes under the table

 

Do you have an article link for this?

 

i will look it up for ya

 

I was surprised to learn he'd won this term. All the best to him!

 

When will DNC take notes from RNC? RNC has mastered buying elections.

 

dont know where youve been in the last 150 years, the Dems have been buying elections with Unions, with Black voters, with party bosses since Tammany Hall. Did you show up for history class in Jr High and High School?? New Orleans politics is all about buying elections and they have always been Democrats. Remember the Longs? How about "The Big Easy" thats why its names that for the corruption

 

But currently the dems are weak and republicans have been taking over of buying elections. Republicans screw the country, democrats screw themselves.

 

dems screw themselves and the country where I come from. raising taxes, governmental regulations, local and state dems who drop the ball in New Orleans, wanting illegal immigrants in the country, but calling it an immigration issue, cut and run politics, big city corruption--in Philly, DC, NY, Boston, Political Correctness run amok.

seems your statement about the Republicans and Dems being the same, screwing you is a guise for your partisan attack only on the Republicans. I think you should change it to clearly say, it is only the Republicans that you want to criticize.

Democrats provide and address your interests, or you wouldnt vote for them or defend them.

I admit the Republican agenda addresses my interests--though I have critical support of all of them, as I am a Conservative First, republican Second.

 

Actually I'm an equal opportunity hater. I don't like either party. I never said who I voted for either. I hate them both equally. They both do the same things.

 

well that is fine, at least you are objective. I am a partisan, as you can tell, but I just wanted to be clear what you were talking about.

 

Indeed they do...

 

I still have mixed feelings on Nagin, but I don't like how some people tried to use him in order to put a black face on the Katrina disaster. At first, some media people tried to overemphasize the black looters as a way to make others have less sympathy for the way our government let some people drown and suffer to death, but that didn't work in the long run.

In the beginning, I was very critical of Nagin and the governor of Louisiana for not fixing the levees in the first place; I still think they dropped the ball in this area. But now what's done is done and I hope Nagin can help rebuild that city in the way that it once was (but with much stronger levees and a better evacuation plan).

Another observation that comes to mind is this: It seems as if the U.S. government cared a lot more for the people of New York after 911 than they did for the people of New Orleans after Katrina even though more people died in the Katrina disaster. This leads to a few questions:

1) New York City is located close to a large body of water. Do you think the response would have been different had a hurricane of that magnitude happened in NY as opposed to New Orleans?

2) Does the U.S. government care more about large northern cities (New York & Washington, DC) than they care about medium sized and small southern cities (New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi)?

3) The residents of NYC, NYPD and the NYFD were all considered to be heroes after the events of 911. Who are the heroes of Katrina?

Just asking questions and making observations....

Peace.
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"The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open." - Rickson Gracie

 

Answer to question 1) YES

Answer to question 2) YES

Answer to question 3) There were some heroes, who saved old people from flooded houses, saved kids, helped homeless folks...
BUT REAL HEROES AREN'T ON CNN that`s all

To finish, having lived in Europe and Africa, I must say that I never, ever, EVER expected to see so much misery in an AMERICAN city, in the number ONE country in the world!

 

It doesnt take hurricanes or floods to find misery in America. We have more than our share of poor. We have people who die from lack of medical care. We have kids who go hungry.

I read a while back that in France, 1 in 4 kids lives below the povery level. At that time, 1 in 10 American kids did. Now it is even higher than that.

 

yes, France and spain have their issues too, esp unemployment way above ours.

No one here cared about hurricanes or the poor until Katrina, yet the poor were there all along. All major cities the poor are entrenched, Philly, New York, LA, Houston, Miami. Suddenly, America and the media unearth poor black people? Hmmmmm, kind of fishy to me, but everyone has bought it hook line and sinker. They were poor and in trouble under both Clinton and Bush Administrations, no one is innocent.

 

:shock: Dude, do you remember as grad students in New Orleans we were almost always broke?! Shit, we STILL are!! BROKEASS GRAD STUDENTS, ASSEMBLE!!!!!! :lol:

 

are you on fellowship, assistantship or paying yourself with loans? Grad School was a blast

 

I agree with both of you...Europe has poor people too and many other issues...BUT, employment here may be higher than it is in Spain, but what KIND OF JOB do people have here? and what kind of pay??? in Europe the minimum salary is MUCH higher than it is here...that is if there is a real legal minimum salary here in the US!

Also, in France, where I lived for 8 years, the unemployed receive a lot of help, medical coverage for everyone is really cheap and u get great coverage...

NOW, yes, it didn`t take hurricanes and floods to have poors in the US, especially in the black community; but after the hurricane, what I saw when I returned to New Orleans looked like some down low ghettos in my father`s native Cameroon...a "third-world" country!...I have NEVER seen anything like that in Europe! NEVER in the 21st century!!

 

you didnt need a hurricane for that come up to New Jersey, south bronx, south boston and north Philly or south central---didnt need a Katrina to show poverty at its height--but everyone has a strawman now and not doing anything for the others in other places. so it will happen again, someplace else

 

Tucker...I`m on a research assistanship...one and a half year left and u can call my Dr!! hmmm....and of course I`ll flee this pretty city of New Orleans...no more hurricanes for me

Yes LUCIFER, I remember our start in Grad school...3 years ago in New Orleans...until u fled to Chicago to learn how to cure people!! good man!

So Tucker u went to grad school too? where? in what field?...yeah it`s a blast, but u just get paid too little for too many hours in the lab...especially in my field (organic chemistry, drug-design)