dajafi wrote:I'm watching the re-air/highlights now. Admittedly I'm biased, but I think Quinn is coming off the best by far.

She's a weird politician. I've been in medium sized meetings/briefings with her, and she comes off as really smart and pretty warm. I think she's awful, just horrible, on the stump. And she seems to be a decent debater.

A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, provided exclusively to TPM, showed an eye-popping divide among Republicans in the Bayou State when it comes to accountability for the government's post-Katrina blunders.

Twenty-eight percent said they think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible. Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.

Bush was criticized heavily when he did not immediately return to Washington from his vacation in Texas after the storm had reached landfall. The government was also slow to provide relief aid and Michael Brown, then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), admitted in a televised interview that he learned that many of the storm's victims at the New Orleans Convention Center were without food and water well after the situation had been reported in the press.

Brown's handling of the response ultimately led to his resignation, but Bush offered an infamous endorsement of the FEMA chief only days before he stepped down.

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," Bush said.

pacino wrote:Louisiana Republicans unsure if Bush or Obama is to blame for Hurricane Katrina response:

A significant chunk of Louisiana Republicans evidently believe that President Barack Obama is to blame for the poor response to the hurricane that ravaged their state more than three years before he took office.

pacino wrote:Manning gets 35 years, 4 of which are already served. Eligible for parole in 6.5 years.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:dajafi, what do you see Bloomberg doing after his term?

drsmooth wrote:

pacino wrote:Manning gets 35 years, 4 of which are already served. Eligible for parole in 6.5 years.

You're talking about Chelsea, right

s/he just threw her biographer a major brain-bruising plot twist

pacino wrote:people joking about gender reassignment just dont know someone that has dealt with that strife. it's horrible to feel unnatural in your own skin.

drsmooth wrote:

pacino wrote:people joking about gender reassignment just dont know someone that has dealt with that strife. it's horrible to feel unnatural in your own skin.

fortunately for you you're not replying to someone who just doesn't know someone(s) that have dealt with that strife