I'M CONFUSED.................................. How did 2 million of my black brothers get in and out of Washington DC, in sub zero temps in 1 day, when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans at 85 degrees with four days notice?
Old one. Nice try.
What else is new?
Yes you are. Try stepping away from the bottle for a few months, Uncle Jemima.
That is easy to explain.
In New Orleans they had shelters such as the Superdome with free food, etc.
In DC they would have had to camp outside on the mall.
The Democrats were in charge for the inauguration, the Republicans were in charge of Katrina's relief efforts.
Compare the education, employment, and income numbers for the DC and NO residents. Like it or not, those factors predict a lot about the behavior of groups.
So does the reasons why people were moving from one place to another. The people were going to visit Washington, DC, to see Biden become President under Bush (he actually was VP while Bush was still President, for a few minutes), and Obama become President. On the other hand, people were fleeing NO to save their lives. And, they didn't have transportation in many cases. But, the visitors to Washington, DC did have transportation, or they wouldn't have arrived there.
Jeff
The federal government has no jurisdiction in the states, unless the nationalized the Louisiana National Guard. That would have been an unprecedented and probably unconstitutional act, since the residents and local government were not violating the US Constitution by being stupid and corrupt.
BTW, the Bush administration asked permission to take over control of the National Guard to coordinate relief efforts, and the Louisiana Governor refused.
It wasn't at the White House, it was at the Capital and the attached mall.
With a plan.
No plan or lousy plan.
Tough shit. They chose to be there in sub-freezing weather. Their clothing was the problem, not the weather or the situation.
Uzackly
I don't think so. Bush left the presidency precisely at 12:00 noon, and Obama wasn't sworn in until about 12:05. So the question is really whether or not Obama was president prior to being sworn in. If he wasn't, then Biden was president for five minutes.
I heard a tidbit about this on the news (NPR, prob.), back on or nr. Jan.
Cathy
That may (or may not) be true depending on what part of the constitution you are looking at (and who you ask), since there appear to be slightly conflicting statements in the Constitution.
The Original US Constitution specifies that the President must take the oath of office and specifies the exact wording of the oath.
But the 20th amendment says that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of their successors shall then begin. Prior to the 20th amendment the inauguration was typically much later.
So there is some ambiguity there as to whether both the oath and the 20th January must take place. Obama's team was so concerned about the flubbed oath of office that happened at noon (and a constitutional challenge to his decisions or authority that might later occur) that they repeated the swearing-in at the White House later that night with Obama taking the exact oath as specified in the Constitution from the Chief Justice Roberts. This time they got it right.
Just as an example, consider the newly appointed Senator from Illinois to replace Obama. Was he a US Senator when appointed by the Illinois governor? Or was he only a senator when he took the oath of office? There was obviously a lot of controversy about whether the Senate would recognize the appointment, and apparently the Senate has the right to accept or reject any election or appointment of its members prior to them being seated as Senators, regardless of the what the 20th amendment says about when the terms end (the terms of Congress ends at noon on the 3d day of January according to the 20th amendment).
That would have required commonsense on their part. DEMONrats are notoriously short on commonsense.
Was Biden sworn in BEFORE Obama? Isn't there any fine print that automatically extends the existing term until the moment the NEW pres. is sworn in?
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