Has New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin lost his mind?

[WalterMitty]

nagin is an idiot.

imagine what the democrats would be saying if a white republican politician would have expressed desire for a 'chocolate' new orleans.

jesse jackson and reverend al would have immediately started a hunger strike.

there is no doubt poverty is a huge problem in inner city america.  but another big problem is the idiots the poors elect to represent them (example: nagin)

[opebo]

there is no doubt poverty is a huge problem in inner city america.  but another big problem is the idiots the poors elect to represent them (example: nagin)

Haha, Republicans always complain that poor blacks aren't electing enough Uncle Toms.

[WalterMitty]

there is no doubt poverty is a huge problem in inner city america.  but another big problem is the idiots the poors elect to represent them (example: nagin)

Haha, Republicans always complain that poor blacks aren't electing enough Uncle Toms.

we are compalining about electing incompetents and poverty pimps.

[minionofmidas]

imagine what the democrats would be saying if a white republican politician would have expressed desire for a 'chocolate' new orleans.

No, instead they've been expressing their desire for a lily white New Orleans ... and worked for one since the hurricane. That's what the whole commotion is about, after all.

[phk]

Blanco won her gubernatorial race because Jindal was an Indian.. I'm talking about Indians from India.

[Dr. Cynic]

I'm convinced he either:

A) Doesn't Care

or

B) Wants to LOSE Re-election

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Nagin needs to realize being as stupid as Pat Robertson is NOT a good thing.

[Brandon H]

Well Nagin realized he screwed up and apologized for his comments. (Nagin apologized the next day while it took Pat Robertson a week to apologize.)

[Dr. Cynic]

Although, Nagin has been under a hell of a lot more stress than Pat Robertson, I'm sure.

[dazzleman]

He sounds scared.  I suspect that many of the real poor left the city after the hurricane and won't be coming back.  He may have permanently lost his voting base.  I'm not sure something like this has happened in modern American history.  Blanco and Landrieu must be pretty nervous too, because with a heavily black and poor New Orleans, the Democrats will have a very tough time in Louisiana.

You're a f****ing scumbag.

Many thousands of poor black Americans lost everything in the hurricane and you're happy because you think Republicans will do better now that all the blacks are gone. I can tell that you're ecstatic about this.

Maybe you should find a way to get rid of all the blacks in America......then you could live in a Republican utopia of corporate power, intolerance, and greed.

Scoonie, you're descending to the level of jfern.

I never said it was a good thing.  I don't care what the political balance is in Louisiana, quite frankly.  I wouldn't want anybody to suffer, regardless of color, in any case.  I was simply stating a fact that the permanent loss of many black residents could tip the state politically, and speculating that fear of that result was behind Nagin's statement.

You really owe me an apology.  Disagreeing over politics is one thing, but that was really an uncalled-for personal attack.

[J. J.]

The man's been through a lot, so I'm usually willing to give him a pass, but on NPR today I heard Nagin say that "New Orleans will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no [sic] other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans." He went on to describe his city as "a chocolate New Orleans."

He never had his mind to being with.  If his behavior during Katrina didn't prove it, this sure does.

He sounds scared.  I suspect that many of the real poor left the city after the hurricane and won't be coming back.  He may have permanently lost his voting base.  I'm not sure something like this has happened in modern American history.  Blanco and Landrieu must be pretty nervous too, because with a heavily black and poor New Orleans, the Democrats will have a very tough time in Louisiana.

4 days till any federal aid showed up and Republican trolls like yourself still want to point the fingers at something else.

I loved the press conference bush did in New Orelans - the one and only place that had electricity and his great words of wisdom to Michael Borwn 'your doing one heck of a job'

But you keep being a repulbican troll.

And 12 hours after Katrina passed, Nagin didn't know that there were refugees in the Convention Center, about 8 blocks from the luxury hotel he had locked himself into.

[Akno21]

Although, Nagin has been under a hell of a lot more stress than Pat Robertson, I'm sure.

Good point. If there's one mayor in the country who has a right to lose his mind, it's Nagin, although I'm not sure he had one before the storm either.

[memphis]

I lived in New Orleans before Katrina, and Nagin was very sane then. I can't imagine the stress that has brought him to his current state.

[Michael Z]

You're a f****ing scumbag.

Hey hey, no need for that. Let's keep it civil.

[??????????]

You're a f****ing scumbag.

Hey hey, no need for that. Let's keep it civil.

You have to understand that's the way liberals like Scoonie, JFern, and James42 work.

[Gabu]

You have to understand that's the way liberals like Scoonie, JFern, and James42 work.

Yeah, liberals like Michael Z.

[dazzleman]

You're a f****ing scumbag.

Hey hey, no need for that. Let's keep it civil.

Thanks Mike.  It is really odious for Scoonie to say that I'm gleeful over the suffering of the Katrina victims.  It just shows the way his mind works, unfortunately.  I'll guarantee one thing -- I did a lot more to alleviate the suffering brought by Katrina than he did.

[dazzleman]

..that's some mighty fine moral outrage stemming from a man who lives in a state that is 96% white

Again with the curious supposition that to know blacks is to be excused for hating blacks.

Or: Not seeing anyone "of darken hue" in NH, apart from students in college campuses, allows him to romanticise blacks in a way that I find cheap and offensive

He didn't 'romanticise them', Storebought, he referred to the fact of their poverty and subjugation in our racist, classist society.

Actually, he did.

The poor neighborhoods in NOLA had very little but the people who lived in them were all right--as displayed by the numbers of the former New Orleans poor who have made a new life for themselves outside of the old neighborhoods. The Wash Post had a whole series of articles about them.

The public housing projects, OTOH, were absolute pits of depravity, long before Katrina. Even the cops were afraid of stepping foot there. And, no, it wasn't the "poverty" that made some (most) of its tenants violent, it was the other way around: many of those thugs who made life hell for their captives in those projects are continuing making other peoples lives hell in places like Houston and Dallas.

Thus, for Scoonie to neglect that reality is by definition, "romantic," and, in my judgement, ridiculous

Good to see you back, Storebought.  You were missed.  And thanks for taking on Scoonie and his ugly comments.

[opebo]

there is no doubt poverty is a huge problem in inner city america.  but another big problem is the idiots the poors elect to represent them (example: nagin)

Haha, Republicans always complain that poor blacks aren't electing enough Uncle Toms.

we are compalining about electing incompetents and poverty pimps.

Yes, those are the labels you attach to any black that dares to get uppity.

[Michael Z]

You have to understand that's the way liberals like Scoonie, JFern, and James42 work.

Yeah, liberals like Michael Z.

I prefer the term "radical-progressive".

You're a f****ing scumbag.

Hey hey, no need for that. Let's keep it civil.

Thanks Mike.  It is really odious for Scoonie to say that I'm gleeful over the suffering of the Katrina victims.  It just shows the way his mind works, unfortunately.

NP. I mean, I can fly off the handle as well at times, but only when I'm being directly insulted. You might have strong opinions but you're always courteous about the way you voice them, so there's no need to throw insults like that.

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