The citizens of New Orleans have been dealt some really bad hands in the last two and a half years. I am not going to go on and on about who or what has been dealing the cards. If your even remotely paying attention to this country and New Orleans, you already know the players.
One of the most disappointing “hands” that the city has received was from the Commission for Presidential Debates. The city of New Orleans attempted to secure one of three debates for the 2008 Presidental Election. The thinking was, what other city in this country was a better example of the issues and problems confronting this country in the years to come. Seriously, the ten to twenty year rebuilding this city is facing is a perfect backdrop for the issues confronting America. Or so we down in this part of the country thought. The Commission thought otherwise. They thought lil ole Oxford MS was a better place to hold the debate. The reason they gave was that New Orleans was “not ready” to handle a presidential debate. And Oxford, with it’s one stop light and 300 hotel rooms was? What fraud. Clearly the Commission didn’t want New Orleans as a host because of one Dubya. The Commission is/was suppose to be neutral when it came to political parties but clearly the agenda was ” let’s not make either party look bad”.
If you have ever read some of my past post on New Orleans Metroblogging, you know that I frankly dislike both the Republicans and the Democrats. They do nothing but divide the American people. They play games with peoples lives and with their heads. They are power hungry frauds who are not looking out for you or for me, they look out for their own power only. I do not care what party would “look bad” with a debate being held in this city, I care about the truth, something we never get from the so-called leaders.
I’m glad to report that Governor Jindal and Lt. Governor Landrieu must agree with me. They are attempting to get around the Debate Commission, going straight after McCain, Obama and Clinton to commit to a debate in New Orleans no matter what the Commission has set up to this point. I say finally and more power to them. We have seen these candidates come down here and talk some game already. McCain came thru recently to try and suck some money out of people’s pockets. Obama was here during the Louisiana Primary, lying to everyone about how he will rebuild New Orleans all by his lonesome. And I think both Bill and Hill have passed thru, sharing with us that if not for them, our recovery would never have started because they secured all the funds we need down here. What a crock of do-do.
Let’s hope that Bobby and Mitch are successful. I can’t wait to see McCain stumble and bumble his way through any discussion about New Orleans. I’d love to hear either Hill or Barrack tell the rest of the country about how much money their administrations would throw down New Orleans way.
And for the Commission on Presidential Debates, I’m not sure you noticed but in the first two months of 08, this city has hosted a Sugar Bowl that brought in 80,000 fans, a National Championship College Football game that drew around 125,000 people to the city, maybe the greatest NBA All-Star game weekend in the history of the NBA and oh yeah, I almost forgot, yet another Mardi Gras. But the city of New Orleans isn’t ready for a event like a Presidential Debate. A event that may draw 5000 people. Hmmmm, what was going on in Oxford MS for the first two months of the year?
