I don't blame him directly for the slow response. If Clinton was in office he couldn't go down there and put his finger in the levee himself, either, but conservatives would still be giving him hell.
I definitely agree that the government has neglected the poor here. If this happened to a rich suburb in Connecticut, we all know pretty goddamn well that every military division within a thousand miles would be there at a moment's notice. The media isn't helping, either; when you see a black family on the news they're "looting," but the white families are "searching for much-needed food and supplies."
logistics. now. lets see your plan that involves evacuating the people that didn't want to leave within 12 hours. i want to see the plan now, on the double. just cause you're president doens't mean you can snap your fingers and make it all go away. if people had listened to the evac order when it first came out they all could've gotten away fine. maybe it took a long time for them to get in there and control it, but once again i'd like to see your plans for an operation of this magnitude. are they just gonna seize the assets of 200 charter bus companies and drive them through lake ponchartrain? meh. i won't deny it could've been handled better, but i think there are far worse ways it could've been done.
Most of the people couldn't evacuate due to no cars or being too poor. They didn't have a bus system set up to take people out of the state the way florida does when a hurricane is bad.
thats not the presidents fault, thats the fault of mayor ray nagin and governor kathleen blanco, both of whom don't support bush.
also, there's nobody left at the convention center or at the superdome. i'll agree they could've done more to supply those two places, but the crowd didn't much help with it. the city wasn't set up for it. (a problem far outside the immediate realm of the executive branch of the national gov...
they've also managed to get the airport back up and running, over 10,000 people have flown out.
I am upset with the comments that Bush made, he could have been more understanding and more sympathic in his comments. That and I am outraged by the slow reponse on getting the national guard, food, and water there. It should have been there within 3 days of the hurricane rather than one whole week. A whole week without water caused a lot of people to die, including little babies that didn't have to due to dehydration and heat exhaustion. There was so much more he could have done in a quicker pace than he did. Fuck, it took him a week to even get over there to visit.
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I definitely agree that the government has neglected the poor here. If this happened to a rich suburb in Connecticut, we all know pretty goddamn well that every military division within a thousand miles would be there at a moment's notice. The media isn't helping, either; when you see a black family on the news they're "looting," but the white families are "searching for much-needed food and supplies."
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maybe it took a long time for them to get in there and control it, but once again i'd like to see your plans for an operation of this magnitude. are they just gonna seize the assets of 200 charter bus companies and drive them through lake ponchartrain? meh.
i won't deny it could've been handled better, but i think there are far worse ways it could've been done.
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also, there's nobody left at the convention center or at the superdome. i'll agree they could've done more to supply those two places, but the crowd didn't much help with it. the city wasn't set up for it. (a problem far outside the immediate realm of the executive branch of the national gov...
they've also managed to get the airport back up and running, over 10,000 people have flown out.
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