Subj : Re: Mayor Nagin
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John Iwaniszek
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 23:39:42

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> Graham Thurlwell wrote:
> 
>> On the 2 Sep 2005, Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>>> Nagin for President!
>>> 
>>> I think that whatever happens he will be negatively associated
>>> with this disaster.  Unfortunately, his political career is probably
>>> over.  
>> 
>> What's he done wrong, or does competence in office not count over
>> there anymore? 
> 
> He hasn't done anything wrong.  People just seem to associate bad 
> things that occur, like natural disasters, to politicians in power at 
> the time.
> 

No one is blaming the hurricane on Bush.  It's his personal response, and 
the policies that weakened the federal government's ability to marshall an 
effective emergency mitigation and management.

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