I remarked in my post Dem-debate post on Sunday that Sen. Barack Obama has acquired a reputation for slips-of-the tongue. Well, here is another one, courtesy of AP:
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.
The first-term senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building.
"This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.
Well, he didn't say "Vote for Me" and there will be no riot. But it could be alluded since Obama is running for president.
The federal government, with the important exception of the US Coast Guard, did initially "blow it" in regards to Hurricane Katrina. But Obama of course didn't feel compelled to mention the continuing incompetence of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco--both Democrats.
Blanco at least is doing the honorable thing by not running for re-election.
And if a Katrina-fueled "Quiet Riot" turns into a full-blown one, there will be plenty of blame to go around.
Nagin, for his part, might enter the race to be Blanco's successor.
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