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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I have yet to see anyone on this board defend Nagin or Blanco. So maybe you could point me to those posts.
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I have not seen anything in the coverage suggested that Nagin or Blanco fucked up. ....
No one has even bothered to explain to me what Blanco failed to do that she could have done, except that nonono thinks she should have had a more masculine, steely determination on TV, which is entirely possible,
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Contradiction?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop but to me misses the point that in the first days after the city was flooded, what was really needed was water and helicopters and trucks and helicopters and food and helicopters and ice,
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She is in charge of the National Guard until it is federalized by the President. The national guard has all the stuff you are citing above. You said earlier why was Bush trying to take charge of the state resource? - then just above you point out that the state resources were not being used. But Bush trying to take charge of state resources was purely just a political move. But how could that be if there were not state resources for her to use?
Bottom line.
She had lot of resources that she did not effectively apply to the situation.
You have been defending her all along so don't try and pretend you have not.
