Now, isn't this convenient? "McCain says U.S. government failed New Orleans"

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/24/mccain.sides/?iref=mpstoryview

updated 1 minute ago

McCain says U.S. government failed New Orleans

(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain blasted the Bush administration and all levels of government Thursday for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
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"We know we didn't have the right kind of leadership ... where government agencies were getting information from watching cable television rather than have a flow of information," McCain said during an event at Xavier University in New Orleans.

"It was not only a perfect storm as far as its physical impact ... it was a perfect storm as far as the federal, state and local governments' inability."

"Never again will there be a mismanaged natural disaster," he said, later assuring the crowd that "it will never happen again in this country; you have my commitment and my promise."

McCain was in New Orleans on the fourth day of a tour through some economically struggling Democratic states, trying to convince voters that he's not the typical Republican.

He made stops this week in Selma, Alabama; Youngstown, Ohio; and Inez, Kentucky.

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Let him eat cake.

[stevedeshazer]

1. This statement by McCain is just plainly outrageous.

All of a sudden, Grampa McCain is pissed that New Orleans was drowned, while he ate birthday cake and posed for photographs the same day.

This is an outrage.

[KamaAina]

2. Well, when McClown says the U.S. government failed New Orleans,

at least he knows what he's talking about. What an ass.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Aw c'mon

Nobody has an opinion about this?

[KamaAina]

4. Actually, they do, more of an opinion than I've seen on a NOLA issue in months

maybe years. Perhaps it's because McClown is involved??

It's just that they're on all the competing threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3282490&mesg_id=3282490

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5669579&mesg_id=5669579

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3202454&mesg_id=3202454

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3202242&mesg_id=3202242

[rocktivity]

5. "Never again will there be a mismanaged natural disaster."

I think your own campaign is fitting into that category, Senator McSame!

:eyes:
rocknation

[malaise]

6. So why the hell didn't he cancel the birthday bash!

Fuck McSameasBush.

By the way as John Stewart pointed out a few minutes ago, he met with white people in Selma.

[VP505]

7. Pretty transparent IMO,

he goes down there does a photo op, slams Bu$h to make himself look better, as if he really cared about NOLA. Guess he thinks just about everyone won't remember where or what he was doing while they were under water. If only we had some REAL journalists that had a pair to tell him to his face what a fu****g PHONY he is.:mad: :mad: :mad:

[ColbertWatcher]

8. What an ass kisser.

[RB TexLa]

9. Which is exactly what the people of Louisiana expected of the US

It would be no different under Obama or Clinton.