Ray Nagin puts his voodoo on Obama
14th May 2008
A short explanation for why the recovery is going so poorly half-way through the worst mayor ever’s second term:
1) The transparent mayor and his staff are never around. Another member of Nagin’s administration was curiously out of town and therefore unavailable to answer questions for a Monday WWL TV news story on crime cameras. Given the smokescreen put up by another member of Nagin’s staff the last time WWL News sought an interview, this getting to be a pattern.
2) Despite the fact that Nagin said he needed to be re-elected in 2006 in order to finish his “plan” for recovery, no one in the transparent mayor’s administration is able to articulate what that vision for recovery actually is, and then follow through. Maybe that’s because Nagin himself can’t articulate a vision. That could explain why Nagin couldn’t elaborate upon a single promise made by Barack Obama to the New Orleans recovery. Coastal restoration? Stronger levees? Affordable housing? Hospitals and health care? Education? Crime? Iraq? Energy policy? None of that. No — there’s “just something about” Obama.
Q: “What did Senator Obama say about the recovery that was different than Senator Clinton that won you over about Senator Obama?”
A: His particular talent for supporting candidates for political office who then lose elections. Why he does so might be explained by his faulty gut instincts than intelligent consideration of issues. In announcing his support for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, Nagin said “You know I respect Senator Clinton — ahh — she’s been a good friend — ahh — it was just something about — ahh — how the Senator Obama talked about the recover (sic), and he reminded me of the many trips he had taken to New Orleans, and how New Orleans has some simularities (sic) to Chicago so — ahh — it was — he won me over with that, and just with the general vision of change, and leadership, and taking the country in another direction.”
Given the Nagin curse of choosing losing candidates for political office, Obama might be concerned about what Nagin’s endorsement means in the long run.
Here’s a news flash: Ray Nagin said in that WWL radio interview that he’s never been a registered Republican. He’s been a life-long Democrat. That would be contradicted by numerous stories that Nagin switched parties to run as a Democrat for mayor in 2002, and is contradicted by his many campaign contributions and endorsements to Republican candidates. Given Nagin’s lies about his voting history, maybe someone ought to check Nagin’s voter registration history as well.
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