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Obama Responds to Glenn Beck Rally, Doubts About His Own Religion
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyPresident Obama said Sunday that he understood the public frustration during hard times that fueled the turnout for conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally this weekend, and said he was confident that Americans will "get beyond all this nonsense" about whether he is really a Christian or born in the U.S. In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams meant to mark the fifth anniversary of Katrina, Obama said he had not watched coverage of the event with its strong undertone of anti-Obama and anti-Democrat sentiment, but he understood why Beck was striking a chord with some ...
The Families Who Could Decide New Orleans' Fate
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- Michael Canedo remembers clearly the day his neighbors gathered at the local playground and vowed to rebuild. It was two months after Hurricane Katrina. The days were still warm. Ten feet of flood had turned Burbank Gardens, a neighborhood of tidy shotgun homes and "camelback" duplexes, into a dead zone. Everything below the water line was coated in moldering gray mud. All living creatures seemed to have vanished, even the bugs. The playground itself stood barren and flat, stripped of all but three magnificent live oaks. Despite the bleakness, the group seemed ...
Louisianans Give Bush Higher Marks Than Obama for Crisis Response
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs 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. Bush gets positive marks for his crisis response from 24 percent ...
After Katrina: 'The Sanity We Have Now Is a Gift From God'
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- By the time I arrived here from Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina hit, the Blackwater guards had settled in at the Sheraton on Canal Street. Some of them had rappelled into downtown from Blackhawk helicopters, or so they told us. We never knew if that was actually true, or if their tale was meant to make us feel more or less secure. But what it certainly did was add to the sense that things were not yet under control. Directing me to the elevators across the lobby, the front desk clerk instructed me to turn left just past the guy with the semiautomatic rifle. ...
Opinion: In Remembering Katrina, Don't Forget Rita
By Blair Kilpatrick - AOL News(Aug. 28) -- A few nights ago, courtesy of our local PBS station, I spent three hours reliving the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. My evening began with "Frontline: Law & Disorder," a harrowing look at post-Katrina police corruption in New Orleans. With relief, I moved on to "Still Waiting," a poignant but unsettling portrait of a large, extended Creole family trying to return home to St. Bernard Parish. As a reporter on NPR's "Fresh Air" observed earlier in the week, television is the ideal medium for remembering Katrina, since it provided the first and most indelible impressions of ...
Obama Picks Xavier University for Katrina Speech; Catholic Critics Are Mum
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPresident Obama will make his centerpiece address on Sunday's fifth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster at Xavier University, a Catholic school in New Orleans. But unlike his highly controversial appearance at Notre Dame last year, this event appears to be generating far less outrage from bishops and the Catholic right. All the elements for a dust-up are certainly there: The Catholic hierarchy strongly opposes Obama's positions on abortion rights and stem cell research, for example, issues they say override the many agreements they have with him on domestic and foreign policy. ...
Gallery: The Hurricane Katrina Photos You'll Never Forget
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina, photos of the storm and its aftermath bring the incomprehensible scope of the devastation and suffering vividly back to life. http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=926747&pid=926746&uts=1282916120 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Hurricane Katrina Rhonda Braden walks through the destruction in her childhood neighborhood in Long Beach, Miss., on Aug. 31, 2005. Hurricane Katrina erased much of ...
The Katrina 4: Where Are They Now?
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Aug. 25) -- It has been nearly five years since President George W. Bush turned to then-FEMA director Michael Brown and spoke those words: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,300 people and flooding New Orleans in one of the worst disasters the United States has ever seen. For some public figures, the hurricane was the beginning of a political storm as well. As floodwaters receded, images of a lawless New Orleans ensured that criticism of the government's response to the disaster only rose. AP Four ...
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