Unlike last month�s photo-op where the media let him get away with his make-believe Katrina record, Maya Rodriguez with the New Orleans CBS affiliate news brought a dose of reality to McCain�s town hall in Baton Rouge on Wednesday:

Rodriguez: Senator, my understanding is you have voted twice against the creation of commission to investigate the levee failures around New Orleans, and my question is: Why have you voted against that creation of that commission?

McCain: I�ve supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy. I�ve been here to New Orleans. I�ve met with people on the ground. I�ve met with the Governor. I�m not familiar with exactly what you said but I�ve been as active as anybody in efforts to restore the city. �

Despite his claims otherwise, the reporter was correct, and McCain�s record on Katrina is not at all what he would have you believe.

McCain Voted Twice Against Establishing A Commission To Study The Response To Hurricane Katrina. [ 9/14/2005, 2/2/2006]
McCain Opposed Granting Financial Relief To Those Affected By Hurricane Katrina. [9/15/2005]
McCain Voted Against Five Months of Medicaid For Hurricane Katrina Victims. [11/3/2005]
McCain Voted Against Emergency Funding Bill, Including $28 Billion for Hurricane Relief. [5/4/2006]
And as for McCain�s: �I�ve been here to New Orleans. I�ve met with people on the ground,� until traveling there one month ago, McCain had made just one public tour of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina touched down in August 2005.


The truth is, until Bobby Jindal won the Louisiana Governor�s race in Oct. and McCain began trying to remake his Katrina image out of pixie dust and media complacency, his gulf coast record hadn�t changed much since the day the hurricane made landfall.

i'm from new orleans, and that's just the very tip of the iceberg. thanks for the news. people need to see what's really happening there. they tried to cover-up the racial cleansing issues, but they can't. i'm considered white, but i'm convinced that from inside knowledge, that it was. bush could have called norad, and within three hours had food down there heli-dropped for seven days and cost tops, 30 million. they dropped leaflets and food, and bombed afganistan in three days, 8,000 miles away. so you figure it out.

Have you seen the documentary "Refuge of last resort"? These guys were in N.O. to film a movie about Zombies and instead ended up with the only on the ground for everything documentary.

http://www.refugeoflastresort.net/

I'm sure their film has probably ended up on Google video as well.

I know there was some sh!t going on there, because instead of bringing food and water, you and your people were instead brought blackwater and the military who came in not to bring food and water, but to confiscate firearms.