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In New Orleans, Obama talks joy after Katrina’s pain
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Posted on Mon, 18 February 2008 at 6:31 pm
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NEW ORLEANS-Campaigning a few days before the Louisiana primary, Barack Obama offered residents of hurricane-damaged New Orleans promises of a levee system by 2011 built to withstand a 100-year storm, a modern new hospital downtown and targeted aid to hire more police officers for the city.”In the city that gave us jazz, we know that even the most painful note can be followed by joy,” Obama said in a speech at Tulane University. “Here, in this city, if we look hard enough, we can imagine the unseen - homes filled with families; businesses putting folks to work; schools extending opportunity; the next verse in the American song.”
Criticism of the federal government’s tepid initial response to the Katrina disaster here and the slow pace of recovery efforts since has been a touchstone of Democratic candidates, serving as the party’s preeminent symbol for charges of incompetence and cronyism in the Bush Administration and neglect of the poor.
In addition to bread-and-butter assistance to the city’s residents, Obama also proposed changes in emergency federal aid programs themed on those broader Democratic criticisms.
He said he would seek a six-year fixed term for the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency so the director’s time in office would extend beyond a president’s term and, Obama argued, reduce the White House’s influence over the agency.
“I won’t just tell you that I’ll insulate that office from politics - I’ll guarantee it, by giving my FEMA director a fixed term like the director of the Federal Reserve,” Obama said. “I don’t want FEMA to be thinking for one minute about the politics of a crisis. I want FEMA to do its job, which is protecting the American people - not protecting a President’s politics.”
Then-FEMA director Michael Brown, a former commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association who was a political supporter of President Bush, became the poster bureaucrat for the charges of incompetence and cronyism in the public uproar following Katrina.
Referring to Katrina recovery contracts given to multi-national firms with political connections to the Bush Administration such as Halliburton, Obama also promised to alter rules for future recovery contracts so that “we will make sure that rebuilding benefits the local economy.”
“When I am President, if there is a job that can be done by a New Orleans resident, the contract will go to a resident of New Orleans. And we’ll provide tax incentives to businesses that choose to set up shop in the hardest hit areas,” Obama said.
Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant responded to Obama’s criticism of the Bush Administration with an e-mail message questioning the Illinois senator’s experience for taking on the task.
“Rather than putting forward political attacks, Barack Obama should explain how his own short Senate career qualifies him to take over the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast. America needs stronger leadership,” Conant said.
The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for an estimate of the cost of his proposals.