Ex-President Clinton visits New Orleans refugees in Baton Rouge shelter

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1128458344209202.xml&storylist=louisiana

Former President Bill Clinton visited hurricane refugees in a shelter here Tuesday, listening to their accounts of evacuations, inept bureaucrats and life without privacy or clean clothes.

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"My concern is to listen to you ... and learn the best way to spend this money we've got," said Clinton, who was to visit the city itself later in the day.

Clinton got an earful, listening as evacuees complained about the shelter's 10 p.m. curfew, lack of medicine, televisions, clean towels or clothing. One man said people in the shelter had been wearing the same clothes for over a month, creating a stench. The man told the former president that some new underwear and undershirts would help.

"That's a practical thing — and I appreciate it," Clinton responded.

Blanco has said she envisions the corps as funded with $2 billion from the federal government and staffed with social workers and others who have been trained in which government agencies and nonprofits offer which sorts of assistance. She said each family displaced by the storm would be assigned one corps official to guide them through the various bureaucracies.

Clinton said Blanco's idea is "the best one I've heard."

"I think it makes a lot of sense," he said.

Blanco has provided few details about the plan and has not heard back from President Bush since first contacting the White House about it more than a week ago.

Robert Warner, 51, told Clinton the Rivercenter is his third shelter since

coming from President Clinton.I read in another story how they were hugging him and shaking his hand.

Dear lord I wish he was still in charge. This whole world would be in such better shape. And the people would NEVER have been left to die and suffer like they have.

I believe that with my whole heart. (((President Clinton)))

Just kidding.

But I'd love to watch a fundamentalist wacko's head explode after hearing me say that.

right after the Tsunami, and he almost spontaneously combusted. Of course, now he is starting to see the light about bushco:)

Unfuckingbelievable. :grr:

first questions I would ask them if I were a "Guide" would be do you want to relocate or go back to NO? The answers to their future will be different depending on the answer to that question.

This is just another example of the very sharp contrast between Clinton, who was legitimately elected and widely admired, and Bush, who was illegally installed and is widely reviled.

Bush could never do this because of "security concerns" (he'd be killed.) There's no way Bush can be protected in a real public gathering because everyone hates him. That's why they have to clear entire quadrants of cities he visits.

Just remember this the next time you see any news account involving anything Bush does. It's all fake, a "Potemkin" presidency propped up entirely by the complicit media. It's no more "real" than a scripted TV show. Oh, and this includes the polls too.

The smirking chimp just can't do this pose and mean it ...



October 5, 2005
Clinton Lends His Expertise and an Ear in Louisiana
By STEPHANIE STROM

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 4 - He kissed babies, hugged their parents, felt their pain and smiled for cellphone photos. Bill Clinton was back in his element on Tuesday on a tour of Louisiana, and at times even seemed to forget his status as a former president.

"I'll get on that," he assured a man trying to square the abundance of supplies he had seen delivered to the shelter with the paucity of blankets and mouthwash inside.

The setting Tuesday was a Red Cross shelter here, not a political rally, and his role was as a budding philanthropist, not a politician.

Mr. Clinton is on a two-day tour of the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina as part of his efforts, along with former President George Bush, to collect money for the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and spend it on storm victims and their communities.

"We drew in a lot of money," Mr. Clinton said, "but what we want to try to do is set up a system to fund things the government won't fund or can't fund."

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/national/nationalspecial/05clinton.html?pagewanted=print

city officials laid off in NOLA should be the first ones on the NOLA contractor's hire list! He does it correctly, I don't know about diminished salaries that had been posted here last week, but he also said that NOLA residents would come back if they had a job!

I didn't quote, because I was listening and while I know I repeated the gist of what he said, I didn't get the exact wording.

we had a caring, INTELLIGENT President.

What the fuck happened?

happened.:(

Will he feel used?