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Subscribe to RSSThe Washington Post: “President Obama marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday with a solidarity visit to this city still recovering from the devastating storm, pledging to ‘stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done.’” More: “‘The work ahead will not be easy,’ Obama told an audience of several hundred students, professors and community leaders at Xavier University, a campus that was shut down for months after the hurricane. ‘There will be setbacks. There will be challenges along the way. But today, thanks to you and the people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming once more.’”
The New York Times adds, “‘There are some wounds that do not heal,’ the president acknowledged. ‘There are some losses that cannot be repaid. And for many who lived through those harrowing days five years ago, there is a searing memory that time will not erase.’”
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More than we ever saw in Bush... wait Bush stood by nothing.
Louis have you noticed that most republicans, tea party, and christen consertives really don't care about the 5 years aniversrey of Katrina. to them that was a act from god to help get rid of the verment of our society. i remember pat roberts saying that katrina was a sign from god, that N O was a sin infested city that to them deserved what they got. not once at the rally saturday did beck or palin give a moment to remember the thousand or so that dies in the days following Katrina. to them it was if katrina did not happen.
Atleast Obama isn't like Clueless George Bush who stood on the sidelines while New Orleans was flooded so badly. Heck of a Job Clueless Boy Georgie! Five years later and lots of housing is still not rebuilt, mostly the poor people's houses.
It is only money. The private insurance companies refuse to cover most of the place built under sea level so the taxpayers will continue to be their personal insurance company with no premiums to pay. The same crap with Florida. People collect three or four times on the same home in the flood zone.
The bulk of New Orleans should have been built way inland. This place is just like San Francisco built on a dangerous fault line and rebuilt in the same place over and over courtesy of the taxpayers because the land investors lobby the city to keep it there so their land values don't tumble.
The Federal Government has to get out of the coastal and flood plain insurance business.
In 2005 we took a little trip, along with Michael Brown down the mighty Mississip ... We took too little water and we took way too few means, as we bungled up the rescue of the Town of New Orleans ....
There is a rumor, perhaps it's an urban legend, that Mississippi received some damage from Katrina. Based on the presidents speech I can't tell. Can anyone verify this happened and if so how are they doing?
Of course he will (another LIE). This Hitler will whore himself to no end to bring FALSE HOPE to people who need rescue more than anyone. It's all about the VOTES folks.... he doesn't give a living CRAP about people.. it's COMPLETELY all about his Marxist/Muslim/Communist agenda and screw everyone else.
YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR ON IT !! .. But that's probably all you have left anyways, isn't it ???
Again, great job B-O, great job.
IMPEACH OBAMA AND PELOSI NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!
Sheeple Hearder - Great post! You nailed it! This arrogant little elitist dit thinks the mindless drones (i.e. We The People) cannot even remember a few months back to all the events surrounding his absolutely disgusting mis-handling of the gulf oil spill. Instead, he believes that the diarrhea of his golden oracle cavities will enable him to be the pied-piper, causing We The Little People to have orgasms at the sound of his mighty voice. Why should we believe his actions when we should instead believe his rhetoric?
I hope for New Orleans sake he stands by them better than he has stood by America. So far he has failed at everything and has done nothing to help the country but plenty to hurt it. He is the worst president in history.
November will come soon and The american People will have Removed alot of the liberal Plight that has plagued our nation for the last 3 years from Congress.. It will be a good day.. We will Fundamentally Change the the Corrupt manner in which the Democrats/liberals have been running Washington.. Then in November of 2012 we will Vote to Remove Obama from the White house..
Sorry. but the american people have Judge you President Obama.. and We dont want it.
Wade, speak for yourself.
More from the "Liar-In-Chief" as though he thinks we should believe his rhetoric and not his actions. Come on America, surely you can remember back a few months and remember how badly Obama handled (or should we say MIS-handled) the Gulf disaster. He dissed everyone, failed to get involved, all until he was pressured to do so - and he was VERY late in doing so. On top of that, he killed no telling how many jobs with his over-reaction of putting a moratorium on other drilling that was going on - nothing but a complete knee-jerk reaction. Had Bush handled it the way Obama did, the media would have absolutely burned Bush at the stake. Bush's response and handling of Katrina looks like effective emergency reponse on steroids compared to the way Obama handled the Gulf oil disaster. However, We The People are too damned stupid (by Obama's estimation since he of the elitist class), to remember back a few months so he instead is now telling us what a good job he did and how he is taking care of the people of New Orleans. Now why do you think he has changed his tune? I'm sure that his current crap popularity couldn't have anything to do with it could it?