TYPICAL

I was really hoping to avoid commenting on our idiot Mayor's latest damn fool comment but it's starting to spread across the news like the bubonic plague or the skank flu. Here's an excerpt from the WaPo: "New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- which has prevented many black former residents from returning -- is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and political leadership of his and other cities.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what happened in New Orleans could happen anywhere," Nagin said at a dinner sponsored by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a trade group for newspapers that target black readers. "They are studying this model of natural disasters, dispersing the community and changing the electoral process in that community."

Dontcha love how C Ray goes out of town and suddenly becomes Soul Brother number one as well as a conspiracy theorist? It's disheartening that anyone takes this crapola seriously but they do. First, C Ray is the Mayor of New Orleans, the slow recovery is *partially* his responsibility. Of course, as the world's oldest teenager, he doesn't like the R word. Second, the Louisiana pols who C Ray dislikes so much-Governor Meemaw and the Landrieus-are heavily dependent on African American voters. That "they" has no interest whatsoever in bleaching, ethnically cleansing or, whatever you want to call it, the racial makeup of New Orleans. C Ray's buddy, Piyush (Bobby) Jindal is the likely beneficiary of any demographic changes in the voters of Orleans Parish. Finally, as we locals know, C Ray is opposed to re-opening public housing and hasn't lifted a finger to help poor folks return home except to vote for him last Spring. If there's a THEY, C Ray is one of THEM.

I'm sick and tired of seeing C Ray's chronic case of verbal diarrhea rearing its malodorous head in the national MSM but as long as he's in office it will happen. They think that, because he speaks like a character out of a Seventies blaxploitation film, that he's anything other than what he really is, a crony-capitalist style Republican who changed parties to get elected. 

What the NOLA blogosphere needs is a form post to trot out every time C Ray inserts his foot in his mouth. Perhaps we should form a committee to study drafting a form to be used when Nagin runs true to form and says something stupid, man. Okay, y'all, the line forms to the left...

UPDATE: The Picayune ran the story in this morning's paper. They quote Oliver the Actor and Rob Couhig as disagreeing with the Bald and Buffed One. LINK. Also, Bayou St. John David has a typically sage post reminding us that C Ray often talks trash to distract attention from his administration's incompetence. LINK.

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