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Originally Posted by maleficent
When 9/11 happened, Rudy was a pillar of strength, he was a person that people could look to for support, I dont see the mayor of new orleans acting in a similar manner.
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The federal government didn't wait days to help those involved with 9/11. As bad as 9/11 was, I think this is a bit more serioius - the ENTIRE CITY is decimated. Gone.
9/11 - thousands of people died and the WTC collapsed. NYC was back to running not even a week later. I don't think New Orleans will be back up anytime within the next year or so.
They coulda sent in help to New Orleans the very day after (they knew the hurricane was coming). Did they? No. Why not? Did they think the hurricane was just gonna stop and turn away?
He's got every right to flip.
These people in power don't do much during the crisis. They make the appropriate calls from an office somewhere and make flashy speeches (usually involving some cliche phrase like "we shall pull together and overcome this obstacle and return this great city to what it once was!" - or variations thereof) to the press, but that's really about it. If anything, this mayor shoudl get more respect than Rudy for showing he's HUMAN and not a speech making robot.
Rudy was the mayor, but he himself didn't do anything special to help people, nor did Bush.
I'm sure if the feds screwed around for days, completely ignoring NYC during 9/11, Rudy would've been doin the same thing.