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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (682038)	11/1/2012 3:10:35 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1571996

Yeah, I'm not dissing the difficulty & suffering in NY/NJ at all. But it really isn't comparable. The comparisons of "presidential performance" are inevitable. But some on this thread -- CJ, specifically I recall, didn't grasp the impossibility of the situation in NOLA at the time. The hurricane was never the problem; the flood that occurred afterward was the tragedy, and even smart people were blinded by partisanship. It was interesting to me that one of my facebook friends, who is an absolute expert on the subject of hurricanes -- but also a journalist, was raising holy hell about the suffering in NOLA after four days. But yesterday, I saw him respond to someone in NY saying, "Where the hell is FEMA?" His response was, "You really can't expect anything for 72 hours." I thought, "Dude, you've sure changed your tune." Where's the objectivity? Long gone. I do think the scope of what's happened in the NE is just astounding, which makes it difficult just from a logistical point of view. I don't think most of us around the country understand yet how big it is. But we're not going to have this huge number of people dying in tragic conditions of heat and thirst while people stand around helplessly.