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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (449230)1/21/2009 10:02:33 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1576159
 
“The truth of the matter is the response was pretty darn quick if you think about the fact that the Coast Guard and a lot of brave kids were pulling 30,000 people off of roofs as soon as the storm passed, as soon as they found people on those roofs,” Bush said during an interview with CNN last week.

The federal response to Katrina was nothing short of astonishing in its speed and scope.

This slam at Bush is simply a case of Obama not understanding the role of the federal government. Katrina, in particular, involved a flood (the hurricane was secondary) in which all communication was down (because local officials had no access to satellite phones -- the only satellite phone in the NOLA EOC was owned by FEMA) and the police department was corrupt (having stolen some 50 Cadillacs off the lot at Sewell Village) and the mayor was a bumbling incompetent, hiding out, fearing for his life, at the Hyatt Hotel next to the Superdome, and the governor was WORSE, totally in over her head on day one.

The Bush administration's FEMA was the only organization that functioned anywhere near properly at the time. There were a few FEMA problems, but they were relatively minor compared with the massive failures at the state and local level.
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