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Ashley Morris

2008-04-03T17:01:00.002-06:00

Ashley Morris, a champion of the local blogosphere, passed away yesterday. I'm pouring Jameson for you Ashley. Be well, wherever you are.

Yes We Can Obama Song by will.i.am

2008-02-07T09:41:00.001-06:00

Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King's Church

2008-01-21T17:32:00.001-06:00

Please Lord, help Obama become President.

New Hampshire May Indicate, Among Other Things That

2008-01-09T12:43:00.000-06:00

1. I am a very stupid man.
2. Clinton is one tough candidate who is underestimated at your own peril.
3. Like with Tom Bradley in the 1982 California Governor's race and Harold Washington in the 1983 Chicago Mayor's race, white people often tend to not tell the truth about whether or not they support black candidates in polls. To paraphrase Gloria Steinem, black people are never frontrunners either. Big leads in polls for blacks often do not actually hold up at the ballot box.

New Hampshire Predictions

2008-01-08T12:50:00.000-06:00

Democrats
41% - Obama
29% - Clinton
18% - Edwards

Republicans
26% - Romney
24% - McCain
14% - Huckabee
14% - Giulliani
12% - Paul
10% - Thompson

Update
WCBF chimes in. WCBF is predicting a McCain win, but I think he is going to be disapointed by the independent voter turnout which is mostly going to Obama instead of McCain this time around. I still think the Republican nomination race is between Romney and McCain though, with Giulliani in decent position and Huckabee still a one trick dark pony, though with increasing credibility.

Update2
YRHT weighs in as well, predicting an almost 20 point blowout for Obama. I think Oyster might actually be closer in prediction now than I am, considering these reports of overwhelming unprecedented Democratic primary turnout that has led to an unexpected ballot shortage.

But if that is the case, then that also makes my Romney upset of McCain prediction all the more likely with voters who would otherwise be McCain supporters forsaking him and jumping onto the Obama train.

What This Means For New Hampshire

2008-01-03T23:28:00.000-06:00

The current thinking seems to be that Romney's 2nd place finish opens the door wide open in New Hampshire for McCain. I don't think that is the case, as McCain is still unpopular with the Republican base (even though of the big 4 - Romney, Huckabee, Giulliani, and McCain - he is the most right wing of them all) and he can no longer depend on the independent voters who delivered for him in 2000 against Bush.

Why?

Two reasons: the Iraq War and Obama.

Independents by a (small) majority oppose the war and McCain is the hawkiest most pro-war candidate in the field. And independent voters in New Hampshire may vote in the Democratic or Republican primary, but not both. They must choose. Obama the candidate and his big politics campaign message against partisanship resonates strongly with independents, along with his long opposition to the Iraq War.

Obama is Romney's best buddy for New Hampshire to stop McCain from destroying Romney's candidacy. If Romney loses New Hampshire, his campaign will be almost certainly over. For Republicans, it is a 3 man race in New Hampshire now between Giulliani, McCain, and Romney. Huckabee though may surprise now after his ass whooping in Iowa.

If Obama can finish first or a close second (3 or fewer points) to Hillary in New Hampshire, I think he wins the nomination, as it will lead to an exodus of black Hillary supporters for Obama in South Carolina who will realize this black man could actually win this thing. Obama could then be in position to lock up the black vote and split the white vote three ways fairly evenly. At the very least, it then becomes a two man race with Edwards.

Iowa

2008-01-02T16:18:00.000-06:00

My prediction:

Obama - 32%
Edwards - 25%
Clinton - 23%

Huckabee - 27%
Romney - 25%
McCain - 17%

Update:
OBAMA!

How did he win?
- RECORD TURNOUT - 236,000 vs. 124,000 for the Democratic caucus in 2004
- Independent Voters
- Voters under 45, especially those under 30
- Oprah?

The local blogosphere weighs in:

Library Chronicles
Adrastros
YRHT
WCBF

OPP, Gusman, Midura

2007-11-20T09:42:00.000-06:00

Kudos to Katie Moore at WWL-TV and Councilwoman Shelley Midura for having the guts to take on Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman. OPP has been a bastion of corruption, inhumanity, and dirty politics for the last 30 years, but no one has ever been willing to take that monster on. Until now.

How Clarkson Beat Willard-Lewis

2007-11-18T11:04:00.000-06:00

A lot of people did not expect Clarkson to win this race, including some of our local pundits like Clancy Dubos who thought Willard-Lewis would pull it out. What was the deciding factor in this race? Was it turnout? "Crossover" vote appeal? Race? The rotten garbage contract and Willard-Lewis's amendments to the ordinance that set the 25 pound debris limit? Was it Nagin's endorsement?

I think you could legitimately argue that all of these played a role in the outcome of this election, but the early poll data indicates that the most significant factor was the disparity between black turnout and white turnout.

New Orleans is still a majority black city by a significant margin. We have about 15 percent more blacks than whites in New Orleans, even after Katrina. Yet the early poll data indicates that the disparity in registered voter turnout between blacks and whites was dramatic. It looks like registered black voter turnout was somewhere between 10 and 20 percent while whites turned out somewhere between 30 and 40 percent. According to the data I've seen and the conversations I've had with various campaign staffers and other sources suggests that it was about 15% black turnout and 35% white. This tremendous gap in turnout eclipsed any difference in white or black population numbers and was likely the most significant factor in several local races including victories for Jackie Clarkson, Laurie White, Walt Leger, and Cheryl Gray.

For Clarkson and White, the turnout gap was really the deciding factor as those two races were very close. For Leger and Gray, it was the fuel for their ass whoopings of their opponents, Judy Bajoie-Phillips and Jalila Jefferson-Bullock.

Despite the fact that Gray and Jefferson-Bullock are both black, this turnout gap propelled Gray over Jefferson because of Gray's "crossover" appeal with white voters in contrast to that of the Jefferson family name which is a more than tarnished name with most white voters.

I don't know if this is a reliable indicator for future campaign strategies, as this race had some interesting combined circumstances such as no gubernatorial runoff, a wave of media stories and federal indictments against black elected officials, and an unpopular poor performing black mayor who became at least partially a referendum issue in the City Council election.

Personally, the only candidate who won locally that I felt really good about was Cheryl Gray. I'm hopeful however that Clarkson will be the 4th reform vote on the Council. It will be interesting to see what effect this has on James Carter, who had been seen as the swing vote on the current Council.

Also, is there any bigger loser in this last election cycle than John Georges who blew $11 million to finish 3rd in the Governor's race and then donated $15,000 to Willard-Lewis and sent out a mailer on her behalf thanking her for her support (and Fielkow's) in Georges' Governor's race? And now he wants to be Mayor of New Orleans?

Dartboards with Black People In the Bullseye

2007-11-08T13:52:00.000-06:00

Jeff Parish City Hall, yall rock man. Nooses aren't enough for yall. No, you gotta go the extra mile and get the Deluxe Klan Kit for More Advanced Racists and get the whipping post and bonus dartboard too.

Thanks for reminding us how backwards some folks here still are. You are why this blog exists.

Una Anderson

2007-11-07T14:06:00.000-06:00

So, these Stephanie Grace and James Gill columns have succeeded in casting further doubts in my mind for Una Anderson.

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NOPD's Integrity

The Captain of NOPD's "Public Integrity" Bureau was just arrested for a hit and run accident. Way to go Captain Gremillion.

Walker Hines - A Complete Fuck-Up for State Rep.

2007-11-06T09:51:00.000-06:00

Walker Hines is a 23 year old son of a rich connected white Uptown guy, Bill Hines. Walker's resume:

- Expelled from 2 high schools.
- 5 different colleges in 4 years.
- Graduated from Michigan only because they let him in as a displaced Katrina evacuee and he then successfully petitioned (begged) them to let him finish school there.
- Was a rabid Republican in high school, now claims to be a Democrat (dubious).

He made the runoff for the seat based on his daddy's last name. He has accomplished nothing in his life. He has done nothing for communities or neighborhoods. He's a little rich kid with a sense of entitlement who has never had to struggle for anything, never had to earn anything.

He's been lucky enough to have a scandal fall on his runoff opponent, Una Anderson. I don't particularly like either of them. Una is a former Oliver Thomas staffer who hangs out with some sleaze, though I can't say that I know that she herself is corrupt. But she is, at the least, the lesser of the two evils. She may even turn out to be something good. She was an Amato supporter at OPSB, which is a good thing. Hines though is absolutely not qualified to be in any position of political leadership. Maybe he will go on to do great things and make something of himself. But thus far, he simply has not proven anything except that he's the fuckup son of a well known uptown millionaire.

Council At-Large, Willard-Lewis, Inspector General

2007-11-05T12:50:00.000-06:00

I was watching the WDSU Council debate and I was stunned at Cynthia Willard-Lewis's deceptiveness when she stated her support for the Inspector General and insisted her number one issue and campaign priority was fighting corruption. When the new Council had its first vote on the Inspector General, the vote was 6-1 against Midura and Willard-Lewis led the charge to kill the vote with a ridiculous and disingenuous technical move, arguing that it should be killed based on it's lack of a fiscal note.

Dangerblond covered this excellently at the time. WDSU and Norman Robinson's failure to call her on this is just sloppy journalism. It's another major issue where the local blogs have been better informed and ahead of the local TV news media.

It should also be noted that according to sources I've talked to, Willard-Lewis was the only Councilperson who did not co-sign with the last package of supporting amendments for the IG ordinance.

JORDAN GOES DOWN

2007-10-30T10:01:00.000-06:00

*BREAKING NEWS*

Eddie Jordan is expected to resign at 2:30pm today and name Keva Landrum as the new acting District Attorney.

Eddie Jordan Obstructed Justice

2007-10-24T18:47:00.000-06:00

*BREAKING NEWS*

According to a reliable source, the media is about to report that Eddie Jordan harbored a fugitive, Elton Phillips, after he had committed an armed robbery and was fleeing from police. After taking refuge with Jordan, the next day Elton invaded the New Orleans East home of NOPD Detective Thelonious Dukes, shooting him and his wife. Dukes is in critical condition in the hospital and is not expected to make it. Elton is Eddie Jordan's longtime girlfriend's nephew.

Goodbye Eddie Jordan, you are done.

Casinos vs. Housing for the Poor

2007-10-23T21:50:00.000-06:00

This fills me with murderous rage.

October 23, 2007, 4:04 pm
Keeping Katrina Aid Away from the Casinos

By The Editorial Board

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Americans who were appalled by the terrible conditions created by the storm urged Congress to come up with emergency housing aid. Congress did. Now, however, Mississippi wants to redirect a good chunk of that aid to a pet development project that has nothing to do with housing for the poor.

Affordable housing advocates have been hopping mad about plans to divert $600 million in post-Katrina housing aid to a plan to rebuild the port at Gulfport. The port’s boosters have long wanted it redeveloped as a center for casinos and cruise ships.

State officials view the port plan as economic development. But the advocates promptly condemned it as an attempt to hijack federal dollars that should rightly be spent to build and repair housing for low-income citizens, many of whom are still displaced by the storm and living in travel trailers and mobile homes.

Recently, the House Democratic leadership entered the fray on the side of the advocates. In a sternly worded letter, the House financial services committee chairman Rep. Barney Frank and housing subcommittee chairman Rep. Maxine Waters urged the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to block Mississippi’s proposal.

Mr. Frank and Ms. Waters argue that Mississippi has devoted too little federal money to the refurbishment of affordable housing for low and moderate income Mississippians.

The letter describes the plan to shift money to the Port as “misguided’’ because it disregards the continued need for affordable housing in the state.

Mr. Frank and Ms. Waters are right about what the priorities for this Katrina aid money should be. It’s still unclear what HUD intends to do.

Governor's Race

2007-10-17T20:21:00.000-06:00

So apparently Bobby Jindal is now running attack ads on black radio against John Georges and Walter Boasso criticizing them for donating to George Bush. I shit you not. Jindal is trying to link his opponents to Bush to depress black turnout.

Wow.

This campaign is just getting dirtier and dirtier. Remember a few years back for Clinton's re-election Republicans flyered black neighborhoods saying "Don't forget to vote on Wednesday" knowing good well voting day is Tuesday?

Corruption

2007-10-09T09:35:00.000-06:00

So Mayor Nagin's City Attorney, Penya Moses-Fields, is cockblocking good government. Shocking.

And in related news, Louisiana was just ranked most corrupt state in the country.

Are we really even worse than New Jersey? The Mayor of Atlantic City has been doing his best "C Ray?" impersonation and has disappeared following a corruption scandal, hopping into his City owned Dodge Durango and skipping town. And apparently three of their City Council members have been charged on corruption charges. I don't know how New Jersey failed to make the top 5 list of most corrupt states.

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Update

Dangerblond weighs in.
So does PrytaniaWaterline.

NOLA Blog Roundup

2007-10-09T09:06:00.000-06:00

Adrastos
Georges Gone Wild

The man won a gay rights organization endorsement yesterday. Shocking.

Moldy City
Vote for Clarkson or Boulet

I concur.

YRHT
Jindal on Jena: "We don't need outside agitators"

"Why is that?"

The reason seems pretty obvious. It's because 60% of white voters in Louisiana wanted David Duke to be Governor. Now if you want to argue that he only did that well because he was running against a crooked Edwards, he also received 55% of the white vote in Louisiana when he ran for United States Senate.

David Duke.
The Klan Wizard.
With the funny hat.
White people wanted him to be Governor or US Senator.

So you can see why Jindal, a dark skinned Indian guy, might try to overcompensate in order to pander to the racist white vote. Ridiculous you say? Sure. But the only thing that disgusts racist whitey more than a "N*gger" is a "N*ggerlover." And then it makes sense why some of the candidates stayed away from Jena.

We can blame our political candidates for lacking courage, but let's not blame them for our own racism.

Like the stickers in Metairie say, "White people wake up!"

Complicated Life

2007-09-19T09:55:00.001-06:00

God I love New Orleans.

Greenspan: The War Is About Oil

2007-09-17T09:58:00.000-06:00

from the NY Times:

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
- Alan Greenspan

Free the Jena 6

2007-09-10T14:35:00.000-06:00

Strife has Jena talking about racism
Associated Press
JENA — It’s not yet 8 a.m. but there’s a line of men waiting for a $10 haircut at Doughty’s Westside Barber Shop.With customers sitting in a row of chairs under a line of antique mirrors, waiting for no-frills haircuts — short styles mostly accomplished with clippers — the conversation usually runs to hunting and fishing.

Except lately. Last week, the first trial took place for one of six black teenagers accused of attempted murder, aggravated second degree battery and conspiracy after a white classmate was attacked. Talk around town took a racial bent, a tough issue in the rural South.”I don’t think we’re racist here,” barber shop owner Billy Doughty, 70, said. “People work together, go to school together. We never talk about race.”

But Doughty does not cut black men’s hair. Never has, never will. He tells that to the occasional black would-be customer.

“That’s the thing about working for yourself,” he said. “I don’t do shaves. I don’t do shampoos. I don’t cut black hair. I don’t think it’s racist. I just don’t do it.”

And that, many black people say, is the key to race relations here — you’ll get along as long as you don’t want much.

“This is a good town to live in for things like no crime, it being peaceful,” said Caseptla Bailey, whose son is facing attempted murder charges. “But it’s very racist, and they don’t even try to hide it. It’s like, stay in your place or else.”

Last fall, racial tension built at Jena High School.

Hostility ratcheted up after a black student sat under a tree on campus where white students traditionally congregated. The next morning, three nooses — symbols of lynching in the old South — were hung in the tree.

“That was just a prank,” Doughty said. “They had those nooses from a football rally. They had used them to hang the mascot from the other team. There wasn’t anything racist in that.”

School officials agreed, suspending the students who hung the nooses for three days.

Black residents saw the incident differently.

“When a black person sees a noose, he doesn’t laugh,” Bailey said. “They don’t stand for any thing funny for us.”

There were fights between black and white students. A white youth beat up a black student who showed up at an all-white off-campus party. A few days later, a young white man pulled a shotgun on three black students at the Gotta Go convenience store.

The white person was not charged with a crime. But the three black teens who took the shotgun from him were arrested and accused of aggravated battery and theft. They claimed they wrestled the weapon from the man in self-defense.

Then on Dec. 4, six black students were accused of jumping Justin Barker, 18, who is white, and beating and kicking him.

A motive for the attack was never established, but two witnesses during Mychal Bell’s trial said they heard one of the attackers shout that Barker was the person who had been “running his mouth.”

Barker was treated at a hospital emergency room and pictures shown during Bell’s trial showed him swollen and cuts to his face. He was released after three hours, he said, and that same evening went to a school function. But he said he took pain medicine for about a week and a half.

Bell, a star athlete — he scored 16 touchdowns for Jena High’s football team last year, and, though just a junior, was being courted by schools from UCLA to Louisiana State University —was tried on reduced charges of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy. He was found guilty and could face as much as 22 years in prison. Sentencing is set for July 31.

Trials for Robert Bailey Jr., Bryant Purvis, Carwin Jones and Theodore Shaw — all 18 — who still face attempted murder and conspiracy charges, and an unidentified juvenile — have not been set.

There was immediate outcry in the black community when the attempted murder charges — rather than battery charges —were filed. The group was overcharged for what was essentially another school fight in which the victim was not even hospitalized, Bailey and others said.

“I’ll tell you one thing, when the DA filed attempted murder charges against them, the fights at school stopped,” said Tommy Randall, whose daughter, Kari, is Barker’s girlfriend. “It at least made those kids stop all the fighting.”

But such charges are a “vast overreach,” said David Utter, director of the Juvenile Justice Program of Louisiana. He felt the bond set for the youths — $138,000 for Bailey, later reduced, and $90,000 for the other defendants, was likewise out of line.

“In any other circumstance it looks like no more than a school house disagreement,” Utter said.

The American Civil Liberties Union has been in town since March monitoring the case. The group is also trying to obtain records from the District Attorney Reed Walters to see if black and white suspects are charged differently in similar cases.

“We want to see what charges have been filed so we can look and see if there is a pattern of charging blacks differently from whites,” said Tory Pegram with ACLU of Louisiana.

The ACLU has also helped residents form an NAACP chapter.

Jena has about 3,000 residents, and only about 350 are black. The same holds true for LaSalle Parish, where about 11 percent of the residents are black.

Many residents know each other by name, and outside the courthouse black and white citizens exchange friendly greetings, hugged each other and chatted.

State statistics for 2005, put 18.9 percent of LaSalle Parish’s 14,000 residents below the 1999 poverty level and list the average family income as $31,792.

Still, it’s a great place to live in many ways, said John Jenkins, father of Carwin Jones. There’s little crime in the mostly rural parish, the area is scenic, with good fishing and hunting.

“I work with white people, play baseball with them, coach their kids,” said Jenkins, who coaches a group of 7-year-olds in baseball. “Before this happened, I can’t say I really had a problem. Not that we really hang out together. Whites and blacks don’t really socialize.”

In an area where the oil and timber industries are the biggest employers, blacks are not well represented in local businesses.

When Patty Randall, who is white, moved to Jena 21 years ago she said she was struck by the lack of racism.

“I managed a store in town and we had black customers and white customers and nobody was treated any differently,” she said. None of her three employees were black, however, she said.

“It took me a long time to get a job here,” Randall said. “Most of the businesses are family businesses and they just hire family.”

Bailey, 56, who returned to Jena after serving in the Air Force, has a degree in business management, but said she was unable to get a job as a teller in the city’s banks, where there are almost no black employees.

“How are you supposed to build a life when you can’t get a decent job?” Bailey said. “And if you’re black, you can’t get a decent job around here.”

The employment problems in the area are more about the economy than race, Tommy Randall said.

“If you want to excel around here the only way is to get a college degree and get out of here,” he said. “That’s true for blacks and whites.”

Cleveland Riser, 74, a former assistant superintendent of schools, believes an underlying tension pervades Jena High School.

Of more than 100 teachers in the parish schools, only five are black, Riser said. That, and what he calls a sense that the school belongs to the white community, has left black students feeling alienated, Riser said.

“People have not bought into their having to educate their kids at home, at school and in the community to respect each other,” he said. “White people here feel the way things have always been is the way they’ll always be.”

This Made Me Laugh

2007-09-08T10:54:00.001-06:00

I'm a foodie, so sometimes I read the forums at NewOrleans.com, which is full of right wing food lovers. Perhaps more right wing even than foodie over there. And they seem to have a passionate hatred for Tom Fitzmorris for some reason who I have always liked.

Anyway, this post made me laugh because otherwise it would have made me want to cry thinking about what might have been if Bush had not become President:

nolajack

Newbie

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Re: Quote of the Day: George W. Bush "We're Kicking Ass." (In Iraq.)

« Reply #31 on: Today at 11:34:05 AM »

Quote from: MichaelDominici on Today at 03:53:12 AM

Quote from: Turbodog on September 07, 2007, 11:39:32 PM

Sugar said:

Yet, he licks the boot of a silver spoon-fed blue blood Connecticut Cowboy draft dodger that has failed in everything he's ever done. Go figure.

Turbodog says:

Only a Bush hating, don't confuse me with the truth, liberal like Sugar would say something this ridiculous. How could a man who is an Ivy League graduate, who would become a major league baseball owner/executive, then serve as governor of a major state (defeating a popular incumbent), then serve two terms as the President of the United States of America, have failed in everything he did.

Sugar, if only you were such a failure, you could have been somebody.

Name his accomplishments.
Fair is fair.

Let's see, how high can I count...

- United the planet after the tragedy of 9/11, ushering in a new era of global peace and cooperation.

- Refused to rush into a war with Iraq, despite pleading from the Neocons. Insisted that the focus should be bin Laden, not Saddam, and that even if there was a case for Iraq that UN weapons inspectors needed more time while his administration sought irrefutable hard evidence that Saddam actually had WMD's. Averted what could have potentially been America's worst foreign policy mistake in our entire history and succeeded in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice and preventing Al Qaeda from becoming a destabilizing threat.

- Reduced our dependence on foreign oil by insisting upon higher standards for energy efficiency and alternative fuels even though it meant taking on powerful oil companies.

- Stopped North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons through diligent diplomacy and tough negotiating.

- Brought democracy to Iraq and the Middle East by peacefully supporting pro-democracy reformers and activists while using troops on a limited basis to secure hot zones where there was sectarian violence.

- Refused to nominate Alberto Gonzales as the AG or Sam Alito to the Supreme Court despite tremendous political pressure from right wing Republican party insiders, insisting that the justice system was too important to be politicized.

- Sided with Democrats and Senator John McCain against the rest of the Republican party on the use of torture. Made it clear that the United States would not compromise its moral authority by reducing itself through the use of rendition and torture.

- Went against the advice of his advisors by outlawing the use of warrantless secret wiretapping of law-abiding American citizens. Said we didn't need it because we already had FISA.

- Fired Dick Cheney when he realized what a f@#$%^& vortex he really is.

- Fired multiple people in his administration after promising that whoever leaked the name of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame would be dismissed and referred to DOJ for criminal investigation. When Scooter Libby was unveiled as a key player in the scandal, Bush refused to exonerate or pardon Libby insisting on accountability and equal justice no matter how powerful the indicted official was.

- Increased the real wages of poor people and the middle class to ensure that they would not be left behind as the economy grew, which would have otherwise primarily benefited only the richest 1% of Americans.

- Vetoed the bankruptcy bill because it was a boon for lenders and draconian for citizens in bankruptcy, most of whom were bankrupt because of unaffordable medical bills. Also vetoed the medicare bill because he wasn't about to just handover billions of dollars to the pharmaceutical industry without at least insisting on the right to negotiate prescription drug prices.

- Took on the HMO's and pharmaceutical lobby by offering all Americans a baseline of guaranteed healthcare coverage so that the poor and uninsured's health and lives were not sacrificed simply because they did not have the means.

- Toughened standards at the SEC for corporate ethics, which led to the early discovery of dishonest practices at Enron. Insisted on a crackdown despite being close friends with the founder, Ken Lay. Perhaps even saved the jobs and retirements of tens of thousands of employees and shareholders by finding the problem early before it ballooned into what could have been the worst corporate scandal in decades.

- Led the fight for public education by raising both standards and funding to ensure no child would be left behind.

- Saved New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region after massive devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by appointing disaster and relief experts to run FEMA and by committing and delivering on a promise in Jackson square to do whatever it takes to bring New Orleans back.

- Inspired young people to educate themselves with his amazing verbal eloquence and command of the english language.

Need I go on?

So really, what are you talking about? George Bush has been nothing but totally awesome. Only a whiny liberal would complain about his performance as the greatest President in the history of the universe, second only to Ronald Reagan. Thank baby Jesus that we did not elect Al Gore or John Kerry. Can you imagine where the country might be? We would probably be a nation of very, very gay sex.

Bush!


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Little Shelly Calls Out Bush

2007-08-28T19:44:00.001-06:00

Maybe we have some political leadership in the City of New Orleans after all.

It Takes More Than A Simple Sentence

2007-08-10T12:24:00.000-06:00

Will Bush repeat Katrina failures in Minneapolis?

In a visit to the collapsed bridge in Minneapolis yesterday, President Bush vowed to aid in reconstruction efforts. But the AP reports that “[n]early two years ago, with parts of New Orleans still under water after Hurricane Katrina, Bush made similar declarations in the French Quarter, promising that the government would ’stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives.’” New Orleans City Councilwoman Shelley Midura remarked: “I’m sorry, it takes more than a simple sentence.”

Yes it does Shelley.