A lot of people died in New Orleans and the city was destroyed largely because of the political crooks there. And the incompetents.
Politicians were so busy handing out corrupt contracts and stealing public money that the city’s flood protection was completely out of date. There were penty of warnings about this, but the politicians were too busy feeding their kickback contractors to concern themselves with it.
Business as usual destroyed the City of New Orleans.
When David Duke won the Republican nominaton for governor in Lousiana, Republicans and Demorats supported his opponent, a business-as-usual politician who later went to prison.
Edwards, Duke’s opponent, was so well known as a business-as-usual crook that the bumper stickers said, “Vote for the Crook. It’s Important.”
The only thing that was important was stopping Duke.
Duke got 60% of the white vote, but enough whites and the slavish black vote put Edwards in.
New Orleans voted for the crook.
New Orleans was destroyed.
#1 by Derek on 11/02/2005 - 10:32 am
And I would wager that Tim Russert is still gloating about his famous interview where he “debunked the Nazi.”. I don’t ever remember him laying into Jesse Jackson about his past when he ran for President.
#2 by Mark on 11/03/2005 - 9:09 am
Duke got 60% of the white vote, but enough whites and the slavish black vote put Edwards in.
I wonder how many white people in New Orleans, since the Katrina debacle, woujld vote for Mr. Duke today?