<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/</a></p>
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<p>Nagin must not have been on the right wavelength when God was trying to talk to him before Katrina.</p>
<p>He just might be spending too much time listening to Pat Robertson…</p>
<p>Whenever I read something like that, I just have to rush on over to The Onion to flush it right out of my head!</p>
<p>“He just might be spending too much time listening to Pat Robertson…”</p>
<p>Interesting! That said I cannot imagine what could have happened if it were Robertson who gave this speech on MLK day. Can’t you see the headlines on the leftist blogs, “Robertson says God is punishing the chocolate towns for their sins.”</p>
<p>what do you mean thank god?
he wants a place for black people - i guess ya…keeping them all in one location, new orleans, ought to bring the crime level around USA down ehh?</p>
<p>Nagin needs to understand the Pat Robertson is in charge of weather for God.</p>
<p>Seriously, maybe the trauma of this whole thing has knocked a screw loose in the Mayor.</p>
<p>Did you hear him talking about chocolate milk on CNN???</p>
<p>Maybe he just saw the recent Johnny Depp version of Willy Wonka? Now he’s thinking like an Ooompa-Looompa?</p>
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<p>It’s a question of expectations. We EXPECT politicians to say foolish and ignorant things. They do it all the time, so it’s hardly news when one more petty politician spouts some absurdity. But we hold religious leaders to a higher standard. For one thing they are harder to get rid of – their terms don’t expire and we can’t vote them out of their ministries And being men of God, we don’t expect them to preach nonsense to their followers; so it’s news when they do.</p>
<p>He needs to get off top dead center and just start rebuilding New Orleans. Period. Maybe if he was actually doing something instead of talking about it, he wouldn’t make such silly statements. BTW, is his family still in Dallas?</p>
<p>I heard his spin people are already at work on this and now he is indulging in a little “revisionist history” by attempting to say that what he MEANT was that chocolate meant “chocolate syrup and milk mixed together” representing all the races combined.</p>
<p>My mother grew up in New Orleans and most of her relatives still reside there. The political scene in that town has always been questionable and the people elected are not always the most competent. I think that’s showing through right now. I grew up in Mississippi where my parents still live. The devestation there was horrible and actually more houses destroyed there than in New Orleans. However, you don’t hear as much about it because our governor did a competent job right after Katrina hit. People love to look at a train wreck which is why New Orleans is getting all of the attention.</p>
<p>I"d read somewhere that Nagin had a big job at Comcast before he was elected Mayor. He doesn’t seem to be very articulate or have his wits about him. Exec at Comcast? I can’t figure it out.</p>
<p>Reading it does not achieve the same impact as hearing it. It was very painful to hear this part:</p>
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<p>It just always disgusts me when anyone invokes GOD and claims to know what GOD wants, except maybe when someone says that GOD wants us to live in peace and harmony.</p>
<p>well if Robertson can wish eternal hell to the PA county for refusing ID, Nagin can also make fool of himself.</p>
<p>I wonder what he would wish for the CA school district who will stop teaching ID.</p>
<p>I saw one (one!) campaign sign for another mayoral candidate in all my driving around New Orleans last week (“A new mayor for a new New Orleans”). I was a bit surprised. Although I have to admit I don’t really know when the next election is.</p>
<p>Jmmom…the next election has been postponed. Everyone in my family thinks it’s pretty funny that Mardi Gras is a priority but the mayoral election is not. According to my aunt several candidates have emerged since Katrina but the election has been pushed back to the fall.</p>
<p>Interesting. When Guiliani supporters tried to postpone the election in NY after 9/11, no one would hear of it (and he was respected & popular).</p>
<p>Yeah, if the US could hold a presidential election right on schedule in 1864 –> in the middle of the bloodiest and most disasterous calamity to ever befall the republic, you would think that new Oreleans could pull itself together to elect a new mayor. </p>
<p>Does the New Orleans city charter or laws permit this sort of delay in the election?</p>
<p>“I was a bit surprised. Although I have to admit I don’t really know when the next election is.”</p>
<p>The answer to that is simple. Elections in New Orleans have been delayed indefinitely by the governor so Nagin could be mayor for life.</p>
<p>Never knew what the “C.” stood for in C. Ray Nagin’s name. Could it be Chocolate?</p>
<p>Nagin’s mouth works faster than the synapses in his brain. That has been evident for some time. This is just another brain burp and I don’t know that it does any good to beat it to death. Nagin is not evil just ineffectual.</p>
<p>if anyone has ever seen him on tv, you would know he has trouble with words, thoughts, and ideas. That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard – god wants New Orleans to be chocolate. Wow. To think that people like this exist in public office blows my mind.</p>