Foot-in-mouth disease surrounds Katrina disaster

15) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." -First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005 (Source)

25) "Thank President Clinton and former President Bush for their strong statements of support and comfort today. I thank all the leaders that are coming to Louisiana, and Mississippi and Alabama to our help and rescue. We are grateful for the military assets that are being brought to bear. I want to thank Senator Frist and Senator Reid for their extraordinary efforts. Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard - maybe you all have announced it -- but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating." -Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Aug. 31, 2005, to which Cooper responded:

"I haven't heard that, because, for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated. And when they hear politicians slap - you know, thanking one another, it just, you know, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats because this woman had been laying in the street for 48 hours. And there's not enough facilities to take her up. Do you get the anger that is out here?" (Source)

Howzabout this one?

Quote:

15) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." -First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005 (Source)

DrewDad wrote:

Howzabout this one?

Quote:

15) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." -First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005 (Source)

Maybe she'd just finished watching that movie, Corrina Corrina. Or maybe she was just listening to the song.

FreeDuck wrote:

DrewDad wrote:

Howzabout this one?

Quote:

15) "I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school." -First Lady Laura Bush, twice referring to a "Hurricane Corina" while speaking to children and parents in South Haven, Mississippi, Sept. 8, 2005 (Source)

Maybe she'd just finished watching that movie, Corrina Corrina. Or maybe she was just listening to the song.

I like to see that quote from a reliable news source - it;s just been blooged to death

Maybe Soz
if she was that bad - why was it not picked up by other major media groups? Also look at how the video jumps around.

The question is, do we want in office those that can't relate to the less fortunate in our country?

Brent Warr, who has been the mayor of Gulfport for two months, has no doubt that his city will bounce back from Hurricane Katrina.

"Property values are going to skyrocket here," Mr. Warr said in an interview. "All the unattractive stuff has been blown away. The attractive stuff has been blown away, too, but we can rebuild that."
In Biloxi, which is about 200 years older than Gulfport, some things may be gone for good.

The East End of Biloxi, an old neighborhood of Balkan immigrants and Cajuns whose fathers and grandfathers arrived years ago as fishermen, was wiped out.

The houses did not follow the current building codes and the mostly low- and middle-income district was in a prime real estate area, near the casinos.

The Vietnamese immigrant shrimpers, many of whom lived - and still live - in their boats, and who operated what was left of the area's shrimping industry, are unlikely to find work anytime soon. The harbors are destroyed and the shrimp freezers are gone.

Many of the older, lifelong Biloxi and Gulfport residents, quite a few of whom stayed because they had lived through Hurricane Camille in 1969 and figured they could live through Hurricane Katrina, lost everything and are unlikely to have the energy to rebuild their seaside homes. Ideally, Mr. Warr said, they would move into the condominiums that officials are still expecting to rise along the coast.

"We have an opportunity now to make it an absolutely unique place," he said. "God has come in and wiped the slate clean for us."