Clinton Criticizes Bush Administration's Response to Katrina

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

Clinton Criticizes Bush Administration's Response to Katrina
05-05-2007 3:03 PM
By JOHN MORENO GONZALES, Associated Press Writer

BATON ROUGE, La. (Associated Press) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina and pledged Saturday to funnel more federal aid to the Gulf Coast if elected president.

Speaking to the National Conference of Black Mayors, the New York Democrat said she was angered when she saw images of New Orleans residents on their rooftops, begging to be rescued from the floodwaters that followed the August 2005 hurricane.

President Bush's response was a display of "incompetence," Clinton said.

"It is a great injustice that you would deny the resources to your own people, but that shouldn't surprise us, because many people are invisible to this president," she said in a speech punctuated with applause.

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[rodeodance]

1. "because many people are invisible to this president," WELL SAID HIL.

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2. If she's elected president, she'll be sworn in January of 2009

More federal aid to be directed to the area in nearly 3 and a half years after the disaster sounds like the perfect solution. How about pushing for more funds now?