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To: michael97123 who wrote (158625)	2/22/2006 1:14:08 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

so you think 'school bus' Nagin did a good job ? Or that idiot woman Gov.? Why doesn't Fla have all those troubles with hurricanes? Libs have made the blackman helpless

To: michael97123 who wrote (158625)	2/22/2006 3:17:09 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

your doing a great job .. was politics talking in a crisis. i am sure clinton and others have used exaggeration for effect many times. cannot understand how we take one comment and judge and the whole administration.

To: michael97123 who wrote (158625)	2/23/2006 1:03:41 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793964

All bureaucracies of any size whatever are rife with entropic mediocrity. Likewise, all management teams are isolated, inbred, and incompetent to some extent or another in ways that are only revealed by unfortuitous circumstance. This is true of even the best leadership and the best organizations. Everybody has clay feet, but we still have a world to run. The only thing "new" about about the Fed's response to Katrina was the opportunity to lay massive blame...Apocalyptic blame...at the feet of George W. Bush for its failures. If an identical response to Katrina had taken place in the Clinton era, it would have been a tale of heroism for its successes. Because both were present: competence, heroism and success, and incompetence, failure, and disaster. It would simply have been lit and framed differently under a Democratic administration. Ditto Cheney's shooting accident, ditto the issue with the ports. There isn't anyone making any noise about the ports today who hasn't been totally asleep about it for weeks.