Bush Returns to New Orleans for 10th Anniversary of Katrina
Source: AP
Former President George W. Bush is returning Friday to New Orleans the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points to tout the region's recovery from the nation's costliest natural disaster on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
He's chosen to deliver remarks at Warren Easton Charter High School, the same school he visited on the first anniversary of the catastrophic storm. He is accompanied by his wife, Laura, whose library foundation helped rebuild what is the oldest public school in New Orleans.
The school's success is one of the president's brighter moments in what was an extremely trying time for the Bush administration. Bush was vilified for his government's lackluster response.
A series of faux pas from flying over flooded New Orleans first on Air Force One to his "Heckuva job, Brownie" quip in support of then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown marred his personal record.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bush-returns-orleans-10th-anniversary-katrina-33376754
NRaleighLiberal
(60,034 posts)with no electricity with lights and generators and crawling with press for the photoop - spewing his bullshit - then it all gets packed up and goes dark. Leaving behind a powerless (pun intended) region.
One of the low points, in my view.
Botany
(70,639 posts)... something like it looks bad from 5,000 feet I bet it is real bad on the ground.
And where was the Louisiana National Guard and their amphibious vehicles after
Katrina? Can somebody say Iraq?
BTW Black Krim best tomato so far this summer.
appal_jack
(3,813 posts)I recommend this song of Randy Newman's:
https://m.
with an updated verse I sang to myself to make sense of it all back in 2005:
President Bush flew over in an aeroplane,
With a fat man named Karl Rove hired to be his brain.
Then he said "Heck of a job" to his friend Mike Brown,
'Cuz the plan all along was to let the brown folk drown.
Louisiana...
Lyrics for this one updtated verse copyright 2005 by appal_jack, fwiw, and writtin in commemoration of these photos:
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k&r,
-app
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Srry/ my/ `klaey/baerd is nt r`kling right.
I naed ae nae nae.
TexasProgresive
(12,164 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)They have no shame, that much is obvious.
mpcamb
(2,880 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)to help rebuild New Orleans, it would not be enough.
Big_Mike
(509 posts)He told Congress to piss up a rope and brought in billions to the region to rebuild. On this one issue, the man ended up doing a good job. Beat him for "Mission Accomplished" and I'm right with you. But on this particular issue, you are wrong.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)even a evil asshole has no choice but to be forced to do the right thing. It was nothing more than spin control and it had nothing to do with him doing his job.
Big_Mike
(509 posts)Donna Brazile, a prominent Democratic political operative, praised President George W. Bushs response to Hurricane Katrina on Thursday, just hours before President Obamas speech in New Orleans marking the storms 10th anniversary.
Brazile, a Louisiana native, has applauded Bushs Katrina response before. But she made her latest comments on board Air Force One while flying to the Big Easy with Obama, who has previously criticizeds his predecessors handling of the storm recovery.
She praised Bush for pouring more than $120 billion into rebuilding New Orleans and other Gulf communities over the opposition of some Republicans on Capitol Hill.
The president made a commitment and I think he kept his word, said Brazile.
Walter Isaacson, the Aspen Institute CEO who served with Brazile on the Louisiana Recovery Authority, echoed her comments.
George W. Bush, I think, gets a bum rap, he told the traveling press corps. It took a while to get things started, it was a little bit slow. But he cared about the city deeply and so did Laura Bush.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/252119-donna-brazile-praises-bushs-katrina-response-on-flight-with
irisblue
(33,054 posts)how did she become a R supporter?
Big_Mike
(509 posts)from seeing the whole individual.
W's faults are way beyond legion. However, his actions regarding New Orleans and AIDS in Africa are without reproach. He did, and continues to do, good things in these areas.
alcina
(602 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)livetohike
(22,169 posts)with people paid to cheer for him, so we won't hear the boos he deserves. Where are those pie throwing people? He needs an avalanche of them.
Duval
(4,280 posts)morning when I heard the news. And I'll bet everyone who is there had to sign some pledge that he won't be jeered or shown any disrespect, which he deserves. I remember that picture of him with John McCain sharing birthday cake while New Orleans was drowning.
livetohike
(22,169 posts)we even see it? I know it's Trump, Trump, Trump 24/7.
Duval
(4,280 posts)hoping someone from Mother Jones or an independent journalist will make the video and share it somehow. I seriously doubt our MSM would carry it. And I'm so tired of Trump I turn the TV off when I see him.
DinahMoeHum
(21,829 posts)(well, I can fantasize, can't I?)
tanyev
(42,669 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)the rocks and bottles. And maybe conclude with public waterboarding.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)but nothing made me angrier than his non-response to Katrina.
I love New Orleans. Mr. pig & I would go every coupla years and hang with the locals & enjoy the food & the music.
When I saw the devastation on CNN I couldn't believe the lack of response. A nurse from a hospital on Canal Street saying they were evacuating patients to the 3rd & 4th floors. Federal response - nothing.
Don't get me started on The Quaker Oats Guy at the Astrodome ("most of them were underprivileged anyway, so this is working out quite well for them."
The entire family is disgusting.
Botany
(70,639 posts)"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,"
she said, "so this is working very well for them."
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)during a national disaster. Bush won Louisiana and Mississippi in both 2000 and 2004 and they must have regretted voting for him.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)New Orleans Strong
(212 posts)seafan
(9,387 posts)I cannot stand to read that article beyond its title.
He still walks free.
The links below still have many photos from that still-raw wound in our history, from which we have not recovered and never will be again who we once were.
The perils of George (pix heavy)
In the midst of this tragedy were some miracles.
And here. The warmonger was also "in charge" when Hurricane Ike hit Galveston in 2008.
And here.
This family doesn't do hurricanes. (Pix heavy)
Jeb Bush doesn't either.
These are from Katrina's aftermath.
And he still walks free.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)I can't help tearing up every time I see it. Heart shredding.
Thanks for posting.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,663 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)and how it was "better for them" when the Hurricane hit.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)other states. Does anyone know how many came back?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Completely changed New Orleans demographics.
A lot could not afford to return.
The public housing buildings which were not touched by the hurricane WERE boarded up and residents were not allowed to move back in.
60 Minutes did a show about that.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)of disaster capitalism. I would bet that today the wealthier people who were least effected by the flooding are making big bucks off of the hurricane damaged area.
One wonders today how those refugees are doing in their new areas. But I am willing to bet no one bothered with a follow up. Out of sight out of mind.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)David Simon Did a tv series called Treme about the after effects of Katrina, and one of the angles he covered was how the city was rapidly gentrified, and how people lost their homes...literally....because they were not there after the storm, and the city bulldozed them "by mistake".
Big money poured into the city to make a huge stack of bucks for re-building.
What many non-southerners do not understand is the sense of "home" to people down here. It is a real and tangible feeling, and to be forced out of your community/city/state can fee like losing a limb.
Truly.
So the psychological suffering is something rarely heard about.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)bigger.
As to the sense of home. My family lives on the reservation. We do not stray very far from home. As you say it is like losing a limb.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)UpInArms
(51,291 posts)Dimson did noy "inherit" Katrina ... He fekked up entirely .....
I hate these historical revisionists
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)A faux pas is when you're having dinner at your girlfriend's parents' house and you refer to her by your ex's name.
Katrina was no faux pas.
valerief
(53,235 posts)could get close enough to him to let him know how they really feel.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)I hope he is booed out of the school with Bobby Jindal's tongue squarely up his ass.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I would have thought he'd be banned for life.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)GWB, you are a disgrace, and you shouldn't show our face in public.
onecaliberal
(32,991 posts)Just, wow.
hibbing
(10,113 posts)Just go back to your gated community mansion and try to paint your soul clean.
Peace
Mike Nelson
(9,984 posts)Media will make him "popular" like they did his dad.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)HW wears funny, colorful socks! W paints pictures of dogs!
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Then rebuild it, only Disneyfied, like they rebuild Times Square. They figured it it went over big in NYC, it would work in New Orleans.
They want to make it so that the poor have no place to go.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Dum and Dummer
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Rachel had a segment on it last night and sure enough there was Brownie standing next to !
MyOwnPeace
(16,951 posts)that thought up this "great idea" to have Dimson come back to New Orleans?
If it was by committee, shouldn't the rest of the room been rolling on the floor laughing - or yelling W-T-F ARE YOU THINKING?!?!?!?!?!
Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)How insulting.