In New Orleans, a Shrimp Po’Boy Takes on Added Significance

the city’s population according to the latest estimates is approximately 355,000, about 100,000 below its pre katrina population. this article’s claim that the city’s population is down 80 percent is a gross factual error.

Corexit shrimp. It may sting when it goes down. But that will settle down once the cancer kicks in… and kills you.

while BO tries (again) to convince residents in New Orleans he is on their side and wont rest til N.O. is whole again (eerily familiar to his promises re: the Gulf spill, jobs, economy,etc.). great piece in the American Thinker. read it and weep.. W gets higher marks for addressing Katrina then BO got for his Gulf disaster response (what response?)
August 29, 2010
Louisianans give Bush higher marks than Obama on disaster response
Thomas Lifson
In a fruitless quest to change the subject from Obama’s failures, the liberal media, particularly NBC and MSNBC, are having an orgy today of Hurricane Katrina retrospectives on the fifth anniversary of the disaster. The obvious subtext is that George W. Bush was an incompetent president, worse than Obama. However, the people of Louisiana are not buying the narrative. Bruce Drake writes in Politics Daily:
As the five year anniversary again summons up memories of Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast, Louisiana voters are giving higher marks to former President George Bush for handling of the storm’s aftermath and dealing with crisis than they do for President Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Aug. 21-22.
Fifty-four percent say Bush has done a better job in “helping Louisiana to deal with crisis” while 34 percent give more credit to Obama. Thirteen percent are undecided.

>>this article’s claim that the city’s population is down 80 percent is a gross factual error.<<
Read it again slowly, paying particular attention to the word "to". Two letter words can be tricky according to some estimates.
"The city’s population is down **to** approximately 80 percent of its pre-Katrina size, according to some estimates."

It isn’t just people in New Orleans who cant find a job! Still paying for Bushchanenomics

Tennessee would have appreciated a little “effort” from the POTUS and Administration when they had their devastating flood this year.
Posted by: Dianne93101 | Aug 29, 2010 6:02:18 PM++++That thought crossed my mind.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama vacations and eats Po-Boys while the USA goes down the tube !!History does repeat itself !!!!

80% of 455k is 364k. You state the population is 355k. I don’t consider 9k in population a gross factual error.

I just love the way he still blames things on the past administration. What a cry baby! Why doesn’t he ask the people of Nawlins why that idiot Nagin let all the school buses set and get flooded? Or better yet why he didn’t contact the Governor and declare a state of emergency? Oh! That’s right their illustrious Governor was on a helicopter leaving the state when she should have been doing her job and declaring her state was in a state of emergency! I don’t know about you people but I don’t want to live in a country where the head person just dictates that the army needs to go into a state and take over operations. I think that’s the kind of stuff Sadam Hussein did, wasn’t it? But I’m really glad Mr. Obama and his family are enjoying themselves and is eating po’boys at our expense. He should be asking where all the money he already sent to them is? Uh? Why doesn’t anybody worry about that? Or is that going to be Bush’s fault as well? What this country needs is a women president. And I don’t care what part or who she is. But I know one thing, she’ll have more balls then this guy does!!!

Glad to see the president eating shrimp in louisiana– honestly! This is the sort of little gesture that helps a lot in the recovery. I still remember Princess Diana embracing AIDS victims and helping reassure people the disease was not contagious, a million years ago when such gestures were necessary. Public figures like the president are followed everywhere they go and such details are noticed. If he had not eaten seafood in the gulf region and had not swum in the gulf with his daughter, it would have been terrible for the region. Thanks, Mr. President.

New Orleans is coming back and its due to the people, the business and to some degree it’s history! There has always been a disconnect to the US. New Orleans stood as and unto itself a pride to several cultures which made up N.O. and what it stands for. New Orleans seem to be a spot unto itself disconnected to the USA!
For the big O to walk into town order a PoBoy is a joke that’s not funny! We are left as a nation of PoBoy’s as our nation goes down and down! The look what Bush did is old very very old. The look what the big O has done is slapping us in the face.
You go New Orleans, you survived. You go USA as we too will survive Obama!

In the name of heaven why did this moron bring up his birth certificate? I like many have questioned why he will not release his long-form,but from a practical standpoint the MSM hushed it up and refused to investigate why he refuses to release it.Now, for reasons beyond comprehension he has put the issue out for discussion.WHY? This is just like the mosque comments-totally unforced errors calling attention to his indecisiveness and ignorance.The last one month has completely destroyed the myth of Obama as a savvy politician. Now you will at last start seeing comments like “why doesn’t he just release the long-form” pop up in the media.

Bad facts, bias, and just plain ignorance do not a Republic make.

BLAH BLAH BS BS AND MORE BS.
LISTEN TO THIS:
AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq.
“A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets
As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects. More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted — more than 10 percent of the some $50 billion the U.S. has spent on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog agency.
That amount is likely an underestimate, based on an analysis of more than 300 reports by auditors with the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. And it does not take into account security costs, which have run almost 17 percent for some projects.”
WASTING B I L L I O N S OF TAX PAYERS MONEY IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY WHILE MAKING EMPTY PROMISES TO KATRINA VICTIMS.
I WONDER, WHO REALLY IS OUR ENEMY?
IT COULD BE NOT THAT FAR, AFTER ALL.

The Obama administration along with a supportive Democrat House and Senate is supporting a more managed US economy that is neither solely supportive upon capitalism nor based upon communism Obama does not support communism and accuses capitalism of supporting only special interests. So The Obama administration is striving for economic security through stricter regulation of all business sectors, social welfare programs for workers that include equalized wage programs and protection from capitalist exploitation. Obama has presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies.
If you’ve studied your history, you will realize this is same construct that the National Labor Party in Germany put together. This is also, by definition, Nazism.

Tapper remember Bush’s Speech post-Katrina from Jackson Square – Bush ended up sounding like the 2nd coming of FDR he was going to do all these things to rebuild New Orleans and help people – then for years he did nothing. Bush legacy on New Orleans after Katrina was nothing but spin and no action. Rove must have poll tested that speech.
Brad Pitt and his Make It Right organization did more on a grass roots level to inspired by building homes with — “the generosity of acclaimed local, national and international architects who donated their cutting-edge designs for single family homes and duplexes. Twenty-one architects have now given their time and talent to make the Make It Right site the largest congregation of smart-design homes created by award-winning different architects working on the same project. Learn more about the architects” from the Make it Right Fountain Web Site
Already they built 50 homes. They need money to continue helping.
Don’t be surprised in the future if Domes will be needed to protect cities like New Orleans or Houston. The technology is here to make it happen – ethylene tetrafluoroethylene. Imagine a future when a hurricane passes over a city like New Orleans or Houston and billions of dollars of destruction doesn’t happen.

Whether the planet is warming is irrelevant to the need to get off fossil fuels.
The economic, geopolitical and environmental benefits will kick in even without a CO2 benefit. Less pollution, less military deployments, energy dollars stay at home.
- Balkingpoints / www

Now that another vacation is over…here comes more B.S. I wonder if he had someone taste that poorboy first?

I can make a shrimp poorboy sandwich for about 1/100,000 what Obama’s cost the American taxpayer. Honest!

I hear Michelle prefers lobster.

Why can’t I respect this man? I think I already knew.

Looks like the 1099 Beckbagger attack message creation contractors are out in force – no fare to DC to see “The One” and guest “smells like fish” quitter-gov Palin?
Obama is doing it right – we have bought prawns and shrimp Gulf sourced to support NO and the delta – cooked it up and enjoyed it – here’s to you POTUS

j45….Don’t let the door hit you on the way out….bye-bye..

Like the governor of Louisiana, I’m glad President Obama mentioned having ordered and eaten local shrimp.
I don’t understand a lot of these comments. Today another network ran an interview with Obama in New Orleans, and it is really worth reviewing as he remains so clear-headed, down to earth and focused on what is important.
Newsweek ran a story called “Estimates Say Fewer Jobs, Larger Deficits if Republicans Were in Charge” which is worth reading and keeping in mind as we head into the midterms. They go through the math and its very straightforward and easy to understand.

I wonder if everyone realizes that Obama eats NOTHING until his handlers know it’s safe for him to eat! Whenever he travels, where ever he travels things are organized and prepared down to the smallest detail. The shrimp used for that po boy were probably tested and retested before his lips ever made contact with it.

Amazing the Obama ignoramousous like spawn are still out there. Stunning actually.

Well, Long(in the)T(ooth),
Very open-minded and substantive post, but I gotta tell ya I find it much more amazing that the Koch and Murdoch ignoramouses think they’re not puppets and others care what they think about those who support the President.
Stunning actually.
Frank Rich had a good op-ed in NYT yesterday about the billionaires behind the confederate revival, and Laura Tyson wrote a good one, also in NYT about the need for a second stimulus.

Noz: “Everyone knows if we had Repubs in Control of Congress we’d have gridlock ”
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I think most people would find Newsweek a better source, if not particularly wonky, than a random commenter on a blog but…
Yes, everyone knows if we had Republicans in control of Congress we’d have Congress. That part is accurate. However, there is no evidence businesses would be hiring, or that the economy wouldn’t have continued its downward spiral.
As Newsweek points out, even if we assume that the Republicans would’ve spent $0 to stimulate the economy in the wake of the largest economic collapse since the Great Depression, and $0 to address to health care, their policies would still produce a deficit $371 billion larger than President Obama’s. Why? Per the CBO, the Dem’s health care reform legislation would reduces the deficit by $30 billion over the next 10 years, while repeal the law would increase the deficit by $455 billion over the same time frame.
Then, there’s jobs. The pro-stimulus moves of the Democrats put the country about 2.35 million jobs ahead of where we’d be with Republicans in charge. (Zandi and Blinder say 2.7 million jobs)

“Per the CBO, the Dem’s health care reform legislation would reduces the deficit by $30 billion over the next 10 years, while repeal the law would increase the deficit by $455 billion over the same time frame. ” – true blue
All Hog Wash.
The CBO lives in Oz and commutes to DC each day.
Yes Wecancare will increase Health Care expenditures, that is unless they ration which is probably what will happen. So I guess I’ll give you a wash but no savings.
The Repubs had much better ideas regarding Health Care Reform, ideas that would have actually brought costs down. Your Do Nothing option is something only liberal left spinmiesters believe in.

“Stunningly stupid to even consider another Demo/Obama led stimulus when the first one failed.”
It didn’t fail as it had a stimulative effect;moreover it made investments in important areas Republicans tend to ignore– infrastructure, rail, science, IT, education, etc.
Tyson’s op-ed “Why We Need a Second Stimulus” makes several good points, including that there is “too little appreciation for how stimulus spending has helped stabilize the economy and how more of the right kind of government spending could boost job creation and economic growth. ”
I agree with her and others who point out that “the primary cause of the labor market crisis is a collapse in private demand” and “Two forms of spending with the biggest and quickest bang for the buck are unemployment benefits and aid to state governments.” In addition, additional investment in infrastructure would be cost effective.