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New White House Site Slams Bush

Tuesday 20 January 2009

by: Andy Barr  |  The Politico

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Shine Martin of New Orleans looking grateful that Barack Obama is now president. On the White House web site, Obama promises to deliver on the broken promises of the Bush administration to rebuild New Orleans. (Photo: Reuters)

    The new White House website unveiled by President Barack Obama's team Tuesday includes a shot at former President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina.

    Under the "agenda" portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: "President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur."

    "President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina," the statement on the site continues. "Citing the Bush Administration's 'unconscionable ineptitude' in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims."

    The site also points out that Obama "visited thousands of Hurricane survivors in the Houston Convention Center and later took three more trips to the region" and worked with the Congressional Black Caucus to help rebuild in the aftermath of Katrina.

    In interviews prior to leaving the White House, Bush defended the federal government's response to the hurricane.

    "The truth of the matter is the response was pretty darn quick if you think about the fact that the Coast Guard and a lot of brave kids were pulling 30,000 people off of roofs as soon as the storm passed, as soon as they found people on those roofs," Bush said during an interview with CNN last week.

    Bush also said his lowest point in office came when he heard "people saying George Bush is a racist because of the response" to the hurricane.

  

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Alleviate poverty and people

 Wed, 01/21/2009 - 16:56 — windskull (not verified)
Alleviate poverty and people will have equal opportunity "to get out" in the face of impending danger & for citizens compromised by health residing in harms way there should be made available country club grade resident communities

Heckuva job, Bushie. I'm

 Wed, 01/21/2009 - 20:01 — Anonymous (not verified)
Heckuva job, Bushie. I'm still trying to find what koolaid you're drinking, cuz I want some of that delusional stuff too. People are still displaced from Katrina, and some may be forever, not to mention untold numbers who died namelessly who could not make it to their rooftops. Get a clue.

Re Bush's delusional

 Wed, 01/21/2009 - 21:08 — sllawrence (not verified)
Re Bush's delusional response to his administration's REAL performance to the Katrina catastrophic emergency crisis, I can't say it any better than this: Rachel Maddow, Does BUSH remember Katrina??? Check out her video, link below http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#28629487

what is the new whitehouse

 Wed, 01/21/2009 - 23:11 — Anonymous (not verified)
what is the new whitehouse web site

There were not enough

 Wed, 01/21/2009 - 23:58 — Anonymous (not verified)
There were not enough helicopters in the USA to pull 30,000 people off roofs after Katrina and all the high water vehicles of the various national guard units were over in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not to mention that Bush diverted millions that were to be spent in the prior year for shoring up and repairing levees in the area - damage caused almost entirely by the oil industry with its thousands of miles of canals that destroyed the barrier islands protecting the city. But if Bush tells the lie often enough and long enough there are many that will chose to believe just like the lies told by Nixon and Reagan and Oliver North.

Let's see, a spoiled, rich

 Fri, 01/23/2009 - 14:24 — Another Peasant (not verified)
Let's see, a spoiled, rich white boy who continued the highly-racist "War against Drugs", and who utterly failed to respond appropriately to the devastation of Katrina on a major city with a very large black population, said his lowest point in office was being called "a racist because of the response"? That's right, W. Never mind the misery, destruction, and death. It's all about your precious bloated ego.