McCain visits Ninth Ward
John McCain was politicing in the city this week, you can tell it’s election time the city and the Katrina/Federal Flood are getting a little bit of attention.
In an effort to distance himself from a signature failure of the Bush administration, Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain on Thursday called the initial federal response to Hurricane Katrina “disgraceful” and endorsed more federal intervention to restore affordable housing, health care and wetlands in southeast Louisiana.
Of course this is the kind of lip service we get from national politicians when they are campaigning or looking for a good Photo Op.
Then the candidate, who was visiting a church in the Lower 9th Ward, added that Congress shared part of the blame by spending money wastefully on pork barrel projects after the storm, when it could have dedicated that money to Louisiana’s recovery
A trip to the lower 9th is almost as effective as kissing babies.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Yup, he’s about three years too late with his outrage, isn’t he?