August 28, 2008
With more than two years of meticulous planning under their belts, organizers of the Republican National Convention are warily watching Tropical Storm Gustav to see if it turns into a hurricane and slams into the Gulf Coast.As the storm gained momentum Thursday off the coast of Jamaica, it was headed on a trajectory toward New Orleans, which was hit three years ago today by Hurricane Katrina. If it strikes the Gulf Coast on Monday, that would coincide with the first day of the GOP convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
Should
that happen, I'd imagine the tiresome but inevitable "John McCain
doesn't care about black people" line would be trotted out
lickety-split. I hope Ray Nagin has those school buses gassed up and
ready to go this time.
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Also, I get the feeling the GOP is in a no-win deal here, even if McCain ties himself to the Superdome to fight the hurricane himself. The Deciders will rake him over the coals no matter what he does: if he's there, he's in the way. If not there, he doesn't care.
Gawd, I hope Jindal doesn't hide under his desk like Blanco and Nagin did.
Posted by: eddiebear at August 28, 2008 10:47 PM (llfyb)
I was thinking the same thing today.
Republicans convened while brown people drowned. We, the press, cannot cover the GOP convention or speeches... there's "stories" to run of rape and pillage in NO.
I was also getting pissed thinking about getting wiped out after living in Biloxi for 3 months by a filthy, iceback, snowwop Scandi named hurricane.
Posted by: turtle at August 28, 2008 10:48 PM (ZiZaA)
Posted by: Alice H at August 28, 2008 10:50 PM (jRtPb)
Listen, I know this is a sad commentary on La. politics, but Nagin was the reform candidate in that race. Seriously. There were umpteen thousand people running - I built a campaign site for one, in fact - and am acquaintances with another. When it came down to the runoff it was Nagin and Landrieu. Mitch Landrieu. One of the Cajun Kennedys. Brother to Mary, our Senator. Son of a former Mayor, well known for corruption. In other words, standard La political machine. They're known as the Cajun Kennedys.
Then you've got Nagin, who was in his first term of any elected office, a respected businessman who deliberately jailed a couple of his own relatives early on in his term for minor corruption, who subsequently made mistakes in a major disaster situation. But the hurricane was over and federal money was presumably going to be pouring in. Given that, trusting Nagin with the money was the better choice. We hoped - and had good reason to hope - he'd manage it more honestly.
Things in La. politics are seldom what they seem.
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