The mayor of New orleans, Ray Nagin, has approached this disaster with all matter of whining comments and demands that the federal government do this and that.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (search) lashed out at federal officials, telling a local radio station "they don't have a clue what's going on down here."
Compare these comments with those of Governor Kathleen Blanco...
"When the system goes down, this is pretty much what you get," she said on CBS' "The Early Show." "We don't get into the blame game. We just work with what we got."
Austin Bay has his take...particularly in light of other disasters (usually man made) around the world which have created massive refugee crisis'.
We’ve a million people dispossessed and they are suffering. Critics grouse that the response to Katrina’s devestation has been abysmally slow. Compared to what? Slow compared to our expectations is the correct answer. Compared to every other nation on the planet, we’re moving at warp speed to address a natural disaster of extraordinary magnitude.
Mayor Nagin lives up to that stereotype of the soft, whining, American that must have everything right now. Gov Blanco, on the other hand, emphasizes what she does have and works with that. A great example of two leadership styles at work here...which one do you think works better??
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