Bush the narcissist is manipulating Nagin.

[Writer]

Bush wants Nagin to speak up against Blanco and believe a line of lies that Bush was "upset" and "dismayed" about the genocide in New Orleans.

I wish I knew telepathy. Mayor Nagin - OPEN YOUR EYES! THIS IS THE SAME MAN WHO MANIPULATED AN ENTIRE NATION INTO BELIEVING WE MUST VENTURE INTO IRAQ. HE IS DANGEROUS!

On edit: Please keep this thread kicked - for no other reason than I believe this is a message that must get out.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wonder what Bush promised Nagin...or threatened him with.

[Writer]

5. No, he's sweet-talking Nagin. Giving him what he wants to hear.

Manipulating, cowardly, trying to get Nagin to arrive at the conclusion that Blanco didn't do her part and that Bush "ain't all that bad!"

[sasha031]

6. Nagin will bite

Already did, he was knocking the Governor on Meet the Press, I don't trust him.

[tblue37]

26. Nagin is a big-business Republican.

He switched his registration to Dem to run for mayor, because a Republcian can't get elected in NO. He belongs to Bush's natural constituency.

He also endorsed Blanco's opponent in the guberbatorial race.

[formernaderite]

27. That;'s right he endorsed Bobby Jindal...the current congressman

he was an exec with Cox. Have you noticed recently he seems to be trying to play the "black" card? Blanco, should definitely NOT trust him...and much of the current problems do begin with him.

[Imagevision]

23. Link Please...!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[texpatriot2004]

35. I'm inclined to think threat but it could be a sweet deal. So sad.

Just when I was thinking Nagin was all that.

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[Helga Scow Stern]

3. I know. My heart sank when I saw Nagin on Meet the Press today.

Bush good.

Blanco bad.

[mirandapriestly]

7. Gawd damn it nt

[Helga Scow Stern]

4. Recommended. I have been wondering about this all day.

[bahrbearian]

8. About Nagin

Well, This's for Them: NAGIN Was/Is a Repuke Who Ran Dem
**************QUOTE*********

Before his election, Nagin was a member of the Republican Party and had little political experience; he was a vice president and general manager at Cox Communications, a cable communications company and subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. Nagin did give contributions periodically to candidates, namely President George W. Bush and former Republican U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin in 1999 and 2000, as well as to Democratic U.S. Senators John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston earlier in the decade.

Days before filing for the New Orleans Mayoral race in February 2002, Nagin switched his party registration to the Democratic Party. Shortly before the primary election, an endorsement praising Nagin as a reformer by Gambit Magazine gave him crucial momentum that would carry through for the primary election and runoff. In the first round of the crowded mayoral election in February 2002, Nagin received first place with 29% of the vote, against such opponents as Police Chief Richard Pennington, State Senator Paulette Irons, City Councilman Troy Carter and others. In the runoff with Pennington in May 2002, Nagin won with 59% of the vote. His campaign was largely self-financed.

Shortly after taking office, Nagin launched an anti-corruption campaign within city government, which included crackdowns on the city's Taxicab Bureau and Utilities Department. Nagin also made a controversial endorsement of current Republican U.S. Representative Bobby Jindal in the 2003 Louisiana Gubernatorial Runoff over current Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco, and only reluctantly endorsed U.S. Senator John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential race.

Nagin received a B.S. degree in accounting from Tuskegee University in 1978 and an M.B.A. degree from Tulane University in 1994. He and his wife, Seletha Smith Nagin, have three children: Jeremy, Jarin, and Tianna.

*************UNQUOTE**********

[formernaderite]

29. He got all the white support in the runoff...

for mayor...no wonder he's been fueling the flames between Blanco and Bush, always slyly implying SHE was holding everything up.

[rsmith6621]

9. An Aweful Price To Pay

For a Shower on board Air Force 1.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Imagine selling your soul for a shower....

[barbaraann]

12. I would at least need a bath with spa treatment.

:evilgrin:

[Benhurst]

10. Recommended. NT

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. Got a link? Nagin knows about Bush - he tried desperately to get hiim

to send the promised but missing helicopters to mend the levee breach before New Orleans drowned. Could not even reach the bastard.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4523783
Helicopters, FEMA, NOBODY came. The city's drowning and all the deaths that resulted are on Bush and his criminal gang's hands, not that they give a flying damn as long as they can get away with it. (Much info throughout this thread.)

Bush already tried to blackmail Blanco into letting him have full martial law control. In exchange he would be willing to send in the delayed troops:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1750979

[Nothing Without Hope]

15. Oliphant NAILED the truth about Bush's "compassion" about New Orleans:

[MADem]

16. You are right--Hey, sorry you died!!!!

But everyone SEES it...even when he is trying to be all huggy and sympathetic, he spends more time positioning himself for the camera than actually LOOKING at the people he is supposedly empathizing with. It is fake, and it shows....

[texpatriot2004]

17. Maybe Nagin is keeping his enemies closer n/t

[Prodemsouth]

19. In that case he would be all warn and fuzzy with Blanco.

Him and Blanco do not get along.

[Prodemsouth]

18. Don't say I didn't warn you.. I tried to tell all these posters that

were lauding all over Nagin to watch out.

[texpatriot2004]

20. I see. That's kind of scary. n/t

[wanpete]

28. ME TOO PRODEMSOUTH! I have said it before and I'll keep

saying although many du'ers don't have heralded Nagin as a hero. I don't trust him and after watching him this morning on MTP, I see that he is definitely dumping on Blanco and cozying up to *. I don't trust this man!!!!!!

[Prodemsouth]

32. I have had my eye on him way before Katrina- seems to always

back Repugs- Backed Bush in 2000 gave him 1000. Backed Blanco's GOP opponent in 2003.

[Secular Agent Man]

21. Use your noggin Nagin. Go towards the light dude,

not towards the darkness of Bushco. Do it for New Orleans. :patriot:

[brindis_desala]

22. Nagin is a phony. He's part of the problem. Wise up democrats

Rove has infiltrated your party. Time to clean house.

[applegrove]

24. Nagin would eat a bus right now if it meant his people got the best

aid out of the feds. That is Nagin's job for now. Down the line, when the stuff is in place and the people have signed agreements and the feds are involved and cannot threaten to get out of it - then Nagin may talk or tell the truth.

But for now - he has to do what he has to do. The WH - filled with sociopaths - is the most aggressive kind of bully. They will force Nagin to kiss but over & over to protect themselves.

Nagin knows this. His job isn't to make himself look good. It is to get the best aid to his people as he can. Nagin may even start to believe the shit Bush makes him say.. after a while. Nagin's priorities are on his people. He is only being human. Bush is not.

[formernaderite]

31. Don't be so naieve...politicians of any stripe

only give a shit about their power. I don't buy any of this false pity. Nagin supported the repub against Blanco...that should explain it all to you. He won the runoff with majority white support...in my day they'd say..."he's with the man".

[applegrove]

39. No - not true. Not all politicians go into politics for pure power. Some

actually think they can make a difference in people's lives. Those would be the democrats and the rare republican.

[formernaderite]

40. They may have those inclinations pre-office....give em two years...

and they're elected burocrats with too much power. Although I support the democratic platform, I'm under no delusions that most of them actually care....it just appeals to a specific voter group.

[KingFlorez]

25. I'm might be in the minority here

But I don't see how he bashed Blanco or praised Bush, he seemed to be upset about the federal response as opposed to the state.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

30. Nagin should say to bush*.......

[texpatriot2004]

36. Yeah, that's what he should say alright. n/t

[Writer]

33. Does anyone have the entire clip of Nagin on MTP today?

There's only a portion of the interview on the msnbc site today. Anyone have a link to the entire segment?

[mzmolly]

38. I second this question.

I missed the interview.

[dogman]

34. Figure it out, Nagin's a Bushie.

He is one of them, he was being used long before this.

[texpatriot2004]

37. Living life through the looking glass...Nagin the Bruce. n/t