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06-18-2008, 05:31 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
Please excuse my ignorance, but why are we rebuilding N.O. in the first place? Wouldn't make sense to just resettle them in Wyoming and Utah and Montana and other places where they don't start out in a city that is way below sea level that sits on the water?
N.O. smelled bad BEFORE the hurricanes-- have no desire to visit there now.
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06-18-2008, 07:40 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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Originally Posted by 1399
If Obama was President, then things would be better down there by default-- he voted against the Iraq war, thus, there would be more money available from the feds to help rebuild that American city.
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Did Obama vote against the Iraq war? Actually... no he didn't.
http://slickbarry.com/#warJuly '04, Barack Obama in terms of how he would have voted on the war: “I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don’t know.” (He wasn't in the US Senate yet, and didn't have a vote.)
Fact is, if he did have a vote, we really don't know if he would have voted any different from the majority of the Democrats.
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06-18-2008, 07:51 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
I don't think there would have been a difference Coop. The gov't. stays pretty much the same no matter who's President. FEMA is mess up big time.
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06-18-2008, 08:13 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
If Obama was president would every jet be as secure as Air Force One??
I know he has good communication to make it happen.
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06-18-2008, 09:04 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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How would Obama handle N.O. and the victims?
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He would ruin it a lot worse than it was.
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06-18-2008, 09:08 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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Originally Posted by SavedLou
No...as liberal as he is he would have probably not allowed the Nat Guard to take over and shoot on sight all the looters, murderers, rapists, and gang bangers that took over the city during those days. Resulting in even more senseless deaths, etc. Sorry, but it's hard for us La. folks to talk about what happened without some bitter feelings. Like when our parish in north La. sent school buses down there to evacuate people from the Superdome and they wouldn't get on them b/c they didn't have a/c. Or when I know a Nat. Guard who personally told me that some of them REFUSED to eat the MRE's they handed out b/c they didn't taste good. THAT"S the stuff they didn't tell u on the news! Of course there were those who suffered badly, but those other stories didn't sit well with us. But that's N.O. for you. Always has been...always will be.
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A lot of people on here don't know the whole story and only saw what was on the news. I was ready to come back to Da Parish, but our house was flooded to the roof.
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06-18-2008, 09:11 PM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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So sad. I heard more stories than I could tell. One of my cousins was volunteering at a shelter and experienced MUCH rudeness. There are good people from there but a lot of riff-raff too. It's no coincidence that the crime rates in Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, etc. shot up shortly after Katrina...they had a ton of evacuees from there! One of the anchor women on the news was outraged at the sight of army tanks policing the city/Nat Guard there with guns drawn, etc. "This is America" she gasped "..not Iraq!" LOL! I'm guessing she's never been to the ninth ward after dark! Iraq is safer at times!
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That's for sure. We lived about 5 miles from the Lower 9th Ward and there was atleast a few killings there a night.
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06-19-2008, 08:01 AM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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there were no financial problems associated with Katrina in NO. the problems related to organizational structure and emplimentation.
as has already been said, there were failures on all levels.
that includes the feds. but lets please remember that Gov. Blanko sat in her office and cried and said "I dont know what to do". It was at that point that GWB sent in the Army.
the question here related to Obama is difficult. Who really knows? Obama has no experience in running anything. the largest organization he has run is his Senate Staff and his campaign. we really dont know with Obama if things would have been better.
we do know he has no real experience that lends itself to being commander in chief and cheif executive of the United States.
His resume proves that.
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And how many issues has he NOT voted on since he has been in his position?
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06-19-2008, 08:05 AM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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Originally Posted by Esther
And how many issues has he NOT voted on since he has been in his position?
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Enquiring minds want to know.
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06-19-2008, 08:12 AM
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Re: If Obama was Prez during Katrina..
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Originally Posted by Rico
Katrina, and the response, was not the fault of the Federal Government. Blame Nagin and the Governor. Local and State government is ALWAYS the first response to any disaster. Ask Nagin why he left all those school buses empty.
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Bro,
There were many people that could of gotten out, but chose to stay and that isn't the fault of Nagin, Blanco, or the US Government.
Note: The people that are alive after Katrina are not victims, but survivors.
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