[Professor S]

It's Nagin's problem too.

I don't think Nagin has any leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing others. He has been a complete failure as a leader to his constituency, and in fact he's one of the reasons why I think that Bush should have responded sooner. The only right thing he did was to order the evacuation. As for leadership ability, he is a complete idiot and has more in common with Chicken Little than Mayor Rudy Guliani.

Was there much he could have done in the grand scheme of things to fix the problems? No, but he could have attempted to maintain the civility and sense of community in his city instead of basically proclaiming the hurricaine `the end of days'. If he had chosen to lead, I don't believe the rioting and social de-evolution would have been as bad.

Watching the news today, it looks like Bush is finally going to but more federal resources behind the rescue and survival efforts, but unfortunately he is several days and probably a few thousand lives too late.