Maybe because he is a jackass?

I think it is easy to blame someone else. It is hard to step up and just say this is much bigger than anyone thought it was going to be and we need all the help we can get. It couldn't be that the mayor and governor are both from the party that complains all the time that it is the presidents fault for everything.

This donkey/jackass/democrat is desperately trying to win at pin the tail on the _________.

He is engrossing himself in the blame-game. Why? Is it how to help his constituents or is that he is worried about getting re-elected?

Sadly for New Orleans, almost anyone would have been a better elected official for them. McDonald's is donating 2 million dollars; perhaps the votors should elect Mayor McCheese instead?

People keep asking where is the Giuliani and I keep sayimg go ask the mayor. He hasn't shown a lick of leadership. All he has done is complain.

According to Powerline: Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding

New Orleans mayor calm after talk with Bush.......

http://www.bakersfield.com/24hour/nation/story/2685488p-11219252c.html

HEEEEEEERRRRRE we go again !!

Im so sick of the lame incomptent democrats who screwed this whole evacuation up and now want to blame W personally.
All the fruit cakes are now coming out of the wall to offer critisism in stead of help...typical MARXISTS.
Im not a racisit, but the blacks are the ones...looting, raping, robbing, murdering, setting fires, and generally causing mayhem that is PREVENTING help to the many fine citizens many black who desperately need help.

ITS TIME FOLKS....The black citizens like the muslems have to step up and declare everytime something negative happens a RAMPAGE of destruction and death does not follow by their bretheran !!!

Here's Mayor Nagin's officially-filed Promulgation of Emergency Orders, which include:

2. In order to effectuate the mandatory evacuation, at the direction of the Mayor, the Chief Administrative Officer, the Director of Homeland Security for the City of New Orleans or any member of the New Orleans Police Department, the City may commandeer any private property, including, but not limited to, buildings that may be designated as refuges of last resort and vehicles that may be used to transport people out the area.

Via the article Frogg mentioned:

[Nagin] said. "My philosophy is never get too high, never get too low. ... I always try to keep my emotions in check and yesterday I kind of went off a little bit. I was worried about that, but it maybe worked out.'"'

Huh? What worked out? Crying and ranting maybe didn't make you look like a bigger jerk? Made YOU feel better somehow (I'm sure the people of New Orleans are so greatly relieved that now YOU feel better)? Helped the people evacuate? Made federal aid come sooner (duh... it was just waiting in the wings for you to say send it, fool)?

Total idiot this one.

I think there are categories of people who stayed in the area after the evacuation was ordered. There were:
1. People who did not know an evacuation had been ordered
2. People who had never evacuated for any prior hurricane and were not about to leave now
3. People who could not leave, due to physical condition or lack of transportation (this would include those in hospitals or nursing homes)
4. Those who chose to stay because of the opportunities for looting and rampage offered by a disaster and evacuation

Now, of those categories, I think the government was responsible for only numbers 1 and 3. The others made their choices, whether from ignorance, bravado, or criminal intent.

And the LOCAL GOVERNMENT was the government responsible for seeing to it that those two categories of people got assitance in leaving. The federal government should only have to come in after the local agencies have tried and failed, or been overwhelmed. What I see here is that for the most part the local agencies didn't even try.

"Im not a racisit, but the blacks are the ones...looting, raping, robbing, murdering, setting fires, and generally causing mayhem..." Bill, there is no denying that this tragedy has predominately affected the African-American community in New Orleans more so than any other community. However, you are confusing the issue here. This tragedy has to do with poverty than race. If this hurricane were to occur in a middle or upper class part of the city, whose population also happened to be African-American, you cannot deny that the outcome would have been vastly different. To assume that the footage of a handful of looters and unsubstatiated reports of rape constitute the general behaviour of an entire race of people is racist and ignorant. Neither you nor I can say with absolute certainty that we wouldn't loot a store to steal items that we could barter at a later date for food or clean water...or that we wouldn't become angry and frustrated with respect to a relief effort that is unacceptable for such a developed nation as the United States. These people already have two strikes against them--they are poor, and just happen to be predominately African-American. But it is not the few hoodlums and looters that are contributing to this tragedy...it is the mentality of individuals such as yourself who are focussing of the race of those affected that has contributed to the delay in helping our fellow Americans.
So instead infecting this page with your ignorant blithering, get a dictionary, learn how to spell and then donate some money to help your fellow citizens during this time of crisis.

Bill, there is no denying that this tragedy has predominately affected the African-American community in New Orleans more so than any other community.

What exactly is an "African-American?" Did these people to whom you refer immigrate here from Africa? Aren't all Americans just American? Why do you feel the need to single them out as a special group? Sounds racist to me. If I was white and my ancestors came to America 240 years or more ago from South Africa, would you be calling me an "African-American?"

However, you are confusing the issue here.

No, I think it is you who are attempting to interject some liberal "Political Correctness" or social engineering into the conversation. His issue had to do with who he sees running amok in New Orleans and recognizing the fact that they just happen to all be black.

This tragedy has to do with poverty than race.

Why don't you blame it on the Bossa Nova? There are plenty of poor people, both black and other races who did not rape, murder, loot, or rob. Many offered a helping hand to the neighbors and many saved their neighbors' lives. Do you really believe that being poor gives you the license to commit all these crimes the minute law and order go under extreme stress due to a natural disaster? My ancestors, never more than dirt-poor farmers, would have died before they did what we've seen some of the animals in New Orleans doing after the storm hit.

If this hurricane were to occur in a middle or upper class part of the city, whose population also happened to be African-American, you cannot deny that the outcome would have been vastly different.

Here's a little whack with the clue bat for you. The storm DID hit middle and upper class parts of the city and some of those areas are predominantly black. Your racial stereotyping is quite amazing, given what you profess to stand for. Do you really think that the well-to-do in New Orleans are all Caucasians? Really? Do you think that in the middle and upper income neighborhoods where many blacks live there was no damage from the storm? No flooding? No one killed or injured? Do you think that they all left the area?

To assume that the footage of a handful of looters and unsubstatiated (sic) reports of rape constitute the general behaviour of an entire race of people is racist and ignorant.

To assume that you know what others are thinking and what their motivations are from a few words in a comment thread is ignorant too; and we've already established that you are racist - just arrogantly so.

Neither you nor I can say with absolute certainty that we wouldn't loot a store to steal items that we could barter at a later date for food or clean water

You should consider a career in law. That is the most creative defense for looting and robbing I've heard since the storm hit. I have to admit, you're good.

...or that we wouldn't become angry and frustrated with respect to a relief effort that is unacceptable for such a developed nation as the United States.

And now you jump off the deep end. I'll give you credit, you took longer than most liberals to expose your true mind but for some reason you all just cannot keep the mask on for long. It will be months, if not years, before we are certain what did and did not work in this disaster. They're still pulling victims out as I type this and the city is still under water. There'll be plenty of time later to point fingers after the investigations, hearings and all the rest. Right now, you're basing everything on the hyperbole of the media and your desires to take swipes at the Bush administration. You are wasting your breath - its not going to work.

These people already have two strikes against them--they are poor, and just happen to be predominately African-American.

So you're saying poor people are ... what? Incapable of acting like responsible citizens in an emergency? Leaving the area when told to do so? Does being poor make you stupid? I know that being stupid doesn't make you poor - look at John Kerry or George Soros. And then you go on to deride these people because of their race again. Being black is a strike against them? Why, that sounds racist to me, bigoted even.

But it is not the few hoodlums and looters that are contributing to this tragedy...

No? So you're OK with the murders, beatings, robberies, rapes, and looting? Must not be contributing to the horror, right? Well...unless you happen to be in their path or standing in the way of whatever it is they want to steal. Then it might just "contribute" to the tragedy - at least on a personal level, don't you think?

it is the mentality of individuals such as yourself who are focussing (sic) of the race of those affected that has contributed to the delay in helping our fellow Americans.

But it is OK for YOU to focus on the race of those affected? And to characterize them as unable to control themselves and having "strikes against themselves" simply because of the color of their skin? Why, not only does that sound racist and bigoted, but hypocritical too.

So instead infecting this page with your ignorant blithering,

Don't think you get to say who posts on this site (breathes a sigh of relief). Is part of your compassionate attitude to call others "ignorant" and what they have to say "blithering?" Aren't you libs all for "freedom of speech?"

get a dictionary, learn how to spell

Arrogant. Condescending. Self-serving. And "assy."

and then donate some money to help your fellow citizens during this time of crisis.

Thank you for your kind suggestions. Not bad for a racist bigot who personifies hypocrisy and arrogance. Oh, and get a spell checker. Thanks for sharing.

The good Reverend is right. Katrina did hit upper middle class black neighborhoods, and the population in those areas evacuated. Well, Mayor Nagin evacuated, anyway. No word on whether he allowed any street thugs to evacuate with him.