Who to Trust

When I first read Mayor Ray Nagin's comments yesterday about rebuilding a "chocolate New Orleans" and how "God is mad at America" and that He is "not approving of us being in Iraq under false pretense" I sat at my computer dumbstruck. Now, it is my understanding that he has since attempted to gloss over his "chocolate" comment by saying that he was referring to chocolate milk (white milk and chocalate syrup combining to be a delicios drink), but I am not buying that lame line of backtalk. When you read his statements, it is all too clear that Ray Nagin is speaking clearly of rebuilding a New Orleans that is ruled by and dominated by African-Americans. In doing so, he has clearly thrown a punch at any and all caucasians living in or around that city. And I'm pretty sure that is not "the way God wants it to be".

By the way, where does the Mayor live?
Oh yeah, that's right, Ray Nagin now lives in Dallas, TX.

I will agree with him that God is mad at the United States for many reasons.
But I do not believe that God is sending hurricane anfter hurricane to punish the people of the US, the South or specifically New Orleans for their lack of racial equality. Such declarations are only divisive and cannot be allowed to be accepted as the truth. Throughout this whole thing I keep thinking of Pat Robertson for some silly reason.

Speaking of truth, Hillary Clinton is on the election campaign trail already and she is doing her best to distort and reinvent the meaning of the word. Her comments about the current administration are hateful, incredibly disrespectful, littered with her own personal agenda and have nothing positive to add to the welfare of the American people.

Speaking of the welfare of the people, I'd like to refer to President George W. Bush's comments he made while on his visit to the Gulf Coast region this past week. In several statements, he referred to the "dramatic change" he saw in the region, from when he first visited a week after Katrina hit shore. I am not sure what cleaned up, overly-politicized neighborhood Bush rolled through on his tour, but either what he saw is not the reality of the whole region or he refuses to admit the plite of the people living in the region. [I'll stand toe-to-toe against anyone who says that the region is "well on its way to recovery", but only if they've seen the destruction firsthand like I have.]

So, the underlying bond of this post is that politicians are never to be fully trusted - they always have an agenda that can color how they see the situation. In some cases, those distortions are to the direct detriment of the people they have been elected to serve...