Bush to visit New Orleans as city still struggles 18 months after Hurricane Katrina

[Judi Lynn]

Bush to visit New Orleans as city still struggles 18 months after Hurricane Katrina
The Associated Press
Published: February 28, 2007


NEW ORLEANS: When President George W. Bush visits New Orleans on Thursday — a year-and-a-half after Hurricane Katrina — what he will find is a city of extremes, where life abounds in isolated areas and is eerily lacking in others.

It is Bush's first trip to New Orleans in six months and he is scheduled to visit a school and meet with state and local officials. His first stop will be in Mississippi, a state that has complained it was largely ignored as attention focused on New Orleans, a magnet for tourism.

The administration's initial response was widely seen as a failure. The White House has since sought to reassure local residents — and the nation — that it is committed to recovery.

"It's important to have better progress, and we certainly want to make sure that everybody works together to get the situation cleaned up as soon as possible," White House press secretary Tony Snow said in Washington on Wednesday in advance of Bush's visit.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/01/america/NA-GEN-US-Katrina-Bush.php

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. And what part of the area to be visited will be sanitized this time before the Decider arrives?

Clean up on aisle 3! :sarcasm:

[central scrutinizer]

2. Will he swing by Trent Lott's porch?

Malign neglect - the motto of this maladministration

[pitohui]

12. you mean trent lott's slab?

:-)

only recently did he even win the suit against state farm, dunno if the senator has received any pay-out yet

[Ian David]

3. That should go well, right?

[2Design]

4. wasting more money that should be just sent to these people n/t

[truthisfreedom]

5. Probably in his best interest to get this out of the way while his #s are completely in the crapper.

Typical rove ploy.

[Rose Siding]

6. "People's Rebuke for Bush's Photo Op in NOLA today" details--->

http://www.first-draft.com/2007/03/peoples_rebuke_.html

JOIN THE KATRINA SURVIVORS’ REBUKE OF PRESIDENT BUSH
2:00 PM THURSDAY MARCH 1
SAMUEL GREEN SCHOOL
2319 VALENCE ST.
(Near Freret and Napoleon)
NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans Needs Federal Aid, Not Presidential Photo-Ops.
Mr. President: Katrina Survivors Do Not Welcome You, We Rebuke You!

We live in a devastated city and you are a big part of the reason why it sill sits in ruins. Your administration has abandoned our children by savaging their public schools. Your administration has tortured our working class people by refusing to reopen the city’s public housing developments. And your administration is fully complicit in placing our uninsured in harms way by ruthlessly pursuing the privatization of local public healthcare in the aftermath of Katrina. And, finally your administration is guilty of sending our sons and daughters of to war for oil and empire just when we need them most to help us rebuild our community.

Mr. President, we, Katrina Survivors all, do not welcome you to our city, we rebuke you!

Sponsored by Survivors Village, United Front For Affordable Housing.

[Forkboy]

7. Gee,what a guy!

[Ian David]

8. JOIN THE KATRINA SURVIVORS’ REBUKE OF PRESIDENT BUSH

Cross-posted from Activist Forum:

JOIN THE KATRINA SURVIVORS’ REBUKE OF PRESIDENT BUSH
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=30336&mesg_id=30336



Katrina Survivors to Bush: We Rebuke You
| posted by Shakespeare's Sister | Thursday, March 01, 2007 | permalink |

Scout Prime:

Bush will be in New Orleans today. A Rebuke of Bush is planned at 2pm. Via Humid City is the statement of rebuke from Katrina Survivors....
http://humidcity.com/2007/03/01/rebuke-bush-2pm/


JOIN THE KATRINA SURVIVORS’ REBUKE OF PRESIDENT BUSH
2:00 PM THURSDAY MARCH 1
SAMUEL GREEN SCHOOL
2319 VALENCE ST.
(Near Freret and Napoleon)
NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans Needs Federal Aid, Not Presidential Photo-Ops.

Mr. President: Katrina Survivors Do Not Welcome You, We Rebuke You!

We live in a devastated city and you are a big part of the reason why it sill sits in ruins. Your administration has abandoned our children by savaging their public schools. Your administration has tortured our working class people by refusing to reopen the city’s public housing developments. And your administration is fully complicit in placing our uninsured in harms way by ruthlessly pursuing the privatization of local public healthcare in the aftermath of Katrina. And, finally your administration is guilty of sending our sons and daughters of to war for oil and empire just when we need them most to help us rebuild our community.

Mr. President, we, Katrina Survivors all, do not welcome you to our city, we rebuke you!
Sponsored by Survivors Village, United Front For Affordable Housing.

If you have a blog please consider posting this today.

Pass it on.

More:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/03/katrina-survivors-to-bush-we-rebuke-you.html

See also:

http://humidcity.com/2007/03/01/rebuke-bush-2pm/

[MaineDem]

9. He said his most memorable images of Katrina are the piles of debris?????

I heard this on CNN, I think. He was speaking in Mississippi.

Not the floods...not the people being rescued from rooftops...not the crowds at the Dome.

WTF is going on with this man!

[Judi Lynn]

10. Wow. That figures, doesn't it? Thinking of all that material the merchants sold,

people bought, lying all over the place.

The photos of people standing forever on top of their houses, desperate to get someone to help them will NEVER fade away. How could a President even SLEEP until he had found a way to get help to them?

What a monster.

[pitohui]

14. i'm sure his handlers protected him from the worst of the images

this is a guy eating cake while people drowned in their attic, it is clear he doesn't seek out the news

[KamaAina]

11. Bush**: Not Even Qualified to be Mayor of New Orleans

and if you've been following the checkered career of one C. Ray Nagin, you know that's saying a lot!

By the way, the "C" stands for Clarence. I understand that, every time he puts his foot in his mouth, an angel gets his wings...

[KamaAina]

13. "A state that has complained it was largely ignored"?!

Excuse me? MS is getting something like three-quarters of the federal rebuilding money, even though LA had about 60% of the damage.

If I had to get shortchanged, I'd rather get shortchanged in photo ops, especially those featuring the Fuckmook-in-Chief!

[pitohui]

15. true but they feel they've been ignored in the mass media

i notice when i travel that only a minority of people are aware of the tragedy on the gulf coast, as compared to those aware of what happened in new orleans

many are not even aware that other entire parishes (counties) in louisiana were destroyed such as st. bernard and lower plaquemines, the news pretty much sticks to sound bytes, many folks have no idea of the size of the devastation

[Lisa]

16. wow, what a morale boost -- seeing the guy who made things worse!

Arguably, if he hadn't been dawdling around on his extended summer vacation, and so deep in denial that even his aides finally decided that Mr. I-Hate-Bad-News would have to turn on the TV (and made him a DVD showing what he'd been ignoring) ... some of those people who were drowned or swept away could have been saved.

Unless he rode down the street on a Mardi Gras float outfitted with a toxic-floodwater dunk tank, while the residents got to pelt him with garbage -- I don't see how another Bush visit could have been enjoyable for them.

Remember the time his people showed up with lighting equipment so he'd have a pretty background to pose against ... then took the generators away again and plunged the city back into darkness?