With Nagin out and Landrieu in, how would New Orleans have suffered? Given Landrieu ran against Nagin it’s a given he wanted Nagin out .

For us who don’t know Landrieu, please offer us some evidence? Plenty of us can cite actual acts by Nagin that we don’t agree with. Can people who say Landrieu is so bad please offer some examples?

If I’m voting for or against a candidate I know actual actions by the candidate that I can cite as good and bad. Can such a list however small be provided regarding Landrieu?

Yea he’s an insider and career politician, which is not necessarily cool, but what has he done that is so bad? I don’t see him simply disliking Nagin as proof he’d do a bad job with New Orleans himself. Please help us outsiders understand what you folks who know more about Landrieu are thinking. For me I don’t care who liked or disliked whoever else. I don’t care who is related to whoever else. I want to know what the individual wants to do or has done that is good or bad.

However, the election is general is a sad reflection of the state of politics in Louisiana. I just hope Nagin pulls it together and becomes a better representative now that he has this second chance.

I don’t care if King Midas was his father and he’s part of a group that’s been running the world since Adam.

I just want to know exactly what made Landrieu bad from the deeds of Landrieu himself?

I’m really glad to hear your point of views. It is interesting to hear that Nagin was supported by conservatives and that he was pro business and anti-corruption. It seems that he has been castigated for the most part due to being one of the many who were flawed in response to a once in a lifetime disaster that many were ill prepared for. Beyond that, he seems to have been a pretty good mayor who was willing to cross party lines. I’m happy that the people of New Orleans, of all races, stood firm and didn’t fall for the anti-Nagin sentiment and voted for the candidate whose overall track record made him the best candidate for the job.

The point I failed to make is that Nagin IS competent, and Landreiu is not. Nagin was an excellent mayor before Katrina, he fought corruption starting his first week in office. Yes, he made mistakes in Katrina, but far less than the MSM would have you believe, and their motives for spinning things the way they did were political. He was not perfect re: Katrina (no one was) but I would not categorize what I saw as incompetence.

Whatever you say, Laura. – Admin

But even before Katrina hit he was starting to get cozy with Louis Farra-The-Con. And after Katrina he got cozy with Jesse Jackson and the race hustlers. He started crying about “this will be a chocolate city” and before that was crying about Mexicans. (Without regard to legal or illegal.) He’s become something new so he earned his current scorn. He’s started catering to the race hustling class. So he’s nothing like his former self. But he’s got another term in office now. So we will have to see how he does.

I will always say that the areas of New Orleans destroyed by that storm should never be rebuilt on. Nagin actually proposed that and the race hustlers shut him up. If he had stood up to them on that I might have a little more respect for him now. Because putting people in a known danger prone area to build again is insane. Unless they are willing to sign waivers that government assumes no responsibility for protecting them or giving them a single dime if the place is destroyed again.

I’m sick of my money going to people who know they live in dangerous areas. First it was the people who buy expensive homes on the coasts and now they are rebuilding in highly flood prone areas of New Orleans. I wish we’d get a President that would stand up to this foolishness and move to stop insuring it. Personally I don’t think the government should insure anyone, but especially people that know they are moving into a high risk area.

Look, I couldn’t care less about NO’s choice for mayor. I just think it’s funny that Nagin was re-elected. Perhaps he’s learned something and will be a better leader during the next region-wide disaster.

But you could qualify that with the fact that no one else did any better, and to imply that Landreiu was the better choice is wrong. Landreiu is *considerably* less competent than Nagin – his main qualification is his last name. And Dean’s selection of Landreiu as the man to back has everything to do with Mary “Bring out your dead!” Landreiu’s Senate seat and revenge for Nagin’s crossing party lines.

You say that New Orleans is getting what we deserve in voting for Ray Nagin. This is the first time in my life that New Orleans has actually said no to politics as usual and to the corruption we are so well known for. Yes, I’m defensive about it. When you finally do something right, you desire affirmation, not criticism. And re-electing Nagin was the right choice.

Additionally, I’d like to think my readers are intelligent enough to discern what’s true and what’s not.

1. Nagin is honest, and the alternative was the typical Democrat machine politician, who promised to bring back one of the most corrupt mayors we’ve ever had (Marc Morial) to advise him.

2. Nagin is guilty of plenty of screwups but he has also been unfairly blamed for a lot, especially for things Gov. Blanco did, like preventing the Guard from coming in earlier, and blocking the Red Cross from getting food and water into the Superdome.

I know bloggers need to pontificate – heck, I do it too – but you don’t know our politics or the ramifications of this election. You’re wrong about this and because you run a popular blog, you’ve encouraged other people to pile onto this as well. You seem to have bought into what the MSM dished out; that Nagin is irreversibly incompetent and the prime cause of the chaos after Katrina. And that’s just not true.

Nagin did no worse than every other pol we have around here, from Mary Landreiu who threatened to punch Bush in the mouth, Broussard who lied about a dead woman on Tim Russert and personally caused over a billion in damage when he sent away the pump operators, Blanco who gave the Levee Board which she appointed free rein to piss away tax money and not keep up the levees, stopped relief from getting to people who needed it because she was playing politics, and the Corps of Engineers, a decades-long disgrace that Paul from Wizbang has fully documented. Those other politicians for the most part got free passes because they toe the party line. Nagin crossed party lines to endorse Republican Bobby Jindal because he thought it was the right thing to do. And Blanco, the Democrats, and their MSM minions have been sharpening the knives ever since. Katrina was the perfect opportunity, when Nagin committed offenses of his own, to pile their baggage on top of him.

None of this is to say that Nagin is without fault – far from it. But he is not the man the MSM and now the bloggers have portrayed him to be.

There is a silver lining behind the “Nagin Cloud”.

The real reason Dean and the DNC opposed Nagin was that he is — GASP – a “dirty word” to the Dems – a CONSERVATIVE.

In truth, many conservative Republicans voted for Nagin, because Landrieu symbolizes good old boy business as usual in LA. In contrast, Nagin represents reform and a pro-business agenda.

Certainly, Nagin played the race card. But I believe he was the better candidate.

The media was shocked when the nation announced that it wanted President Bush for four more years. Since then, the media has exacted revenge by returning the favor.