Michael Brown has to have time to eat dinner. Katrina has to wait

[texpatriot2004]

NBC Nightly news just reported an email from Brown's secretary to his "eyes and ears on the ground" Bahmonde (? Spelling). Did you guys see this? This infuriates me. "Mr. Brown has to have time to eat. The restaurants in Baton Rouge are busy. He has to have more than 20 or 30 minutes."

Per E-mail correspondence between Brown's secretary and the FEMA guy on the ground.

OUTRAGEOUS!

[texpatriot2004]

1. Thank you Brian Williams and NBC Nightly news for bringing

this to my/our attention.

[Mend]

6. followed by whore report photo op bush with bono

how bono loves bush for promising $50 million dollars to help AIDS in Africa. Let me know when the money arrives. Hit me in the head for watching TV...only did it because we are in the path of the hurricane. With all going on, he had to show a friggin' photo-op? Now I remember why I only watch Jon Stewart and Animal Planet.

[CatholicEdHead]

19. That also caught my ear

That Bono while getting good PR probably knows that W is all hat and no cattle when living up to his pledges.

[highplainsdem]

2. I saw it. Infuriating that Brownie was more concerned about restaurants

than the emergency he was supposed to be responding to.

[Debau2005]

3. Here is a link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9756145

[MnFats]

4. restraints? do you mean restaurants?

[texpatriot2004]

13. oops thanks for that, I was able to edit, I hate spelling errors too

[Mabus]

5. Well, Baton Rogue had returned to normal

and the restaurants were filling up.

Why hasn't he been charged with negligent homicide?

[MnFats]

7. at the very least a mob with torches and pitchforks should appear...

...outside his home a la 'Frankenstein."

[Mabus]

10. and here they come

[texpatriot2004]

14. Where did they come from? I like them. n.t

[Mabus]

17. ...

I'm linking from a friend's website.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. What - No reservations?

Oh well, "Planning" was not his strongest asset.

<snip>
Bahamonde expressed his frustration about the "dinner e-mail," responding:
"OH MY GOD!!!!! Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends, so I understand her concern about busy restaurants."
<snip>

[gizmo1979]

9. I saw that

I wish they could have interviewed the author of that E-Mail!Someone needs to find out the author and hunt them down for a response.

[Mabus]

11. Bahamonde - FEMA knew for 16 hours that the levee had failed!

from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9756145

"Wednesday, August 31: Much of New Orleans is underwater when a FEMA official inside the Superdome sends an urgent BlackBerry message to his boss, director Michael Brown:

"...the situation is past critical... hotels are kicking people out, thousands gathering in the streets with no food or water... estimates are many will die within hours," writes Marty Bahamonde, who was sent to be Brown's eyes and ears within the city.

Bahamonde tells Senate investigators he doesn't remember getting a response to that e-mail, but later was forwarded this one, which shows Brown's press secretary fretting about Brown's dining plans for that evening.

****
Bahamonde also says officials at all levels of government failed to act on his early warnings that a key 17th Street levee had failed. He says local and FEMA officials had 16 hours to warn the public -- and no one sounded the alarm."

[zbdent]

12. Mr. Brown could have done like a lot of guys working at the office

order in and eat at your desk.

Or, if you're lucky and on the assembly line, be able to eat at all . . .

[texpatriot2004]

15. Yeah, Wal-Mart employees don't even get lunch breaks. nm

[texpatriot2004]

16. Link to DU thread with emails

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[highplainsdem]

18. Olbermann's covering the story now.

[texpatriot2004]

20. What did he say about it? n.t